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North Korea Invades the South
Communist North Korean troops launch a full-scale invasion of the South, beginning the open military phase of the Korean War. North Korean tanks and infantry surge across the 38th parallel into South Korean territory, quickly overrunning the defensive positions of over matched South Korean forces. The Communists continue their southward advance, meeting little resistance in the countryside. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This court case was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Vietnam War, Divided
During the Cold War, France and Ho Chi Minh sign the Geneva Accords, in which Vietnam is to be divided at the seventeenth parallel until elections can be held in 1956 to reunify the country. The South Vietnamese government and the United States refuse to sign, though both promise to abide by the agreement. -
The Murder of Emmett Till
The murder of Emmett Till was another event that sparked the Civil Rights Movement. It was about an American Boy who was visiting his relative in the south. He knew that the south was more harsh towards racism than the North, but he didn't know to what extent. One day when Emmett was walking out of the shop, a woman claimed that Emmett whistled at her. Two outraqed white males brutally murdered Emmett Till. -
Rosa Parks Desegregated Bus
Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect. A year earlier, she had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. -
MLK Jr. and the SCLC
He led the Montgomery bus boycott and helped create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) -
Formation of the Beatles
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. -
Jimmy Carter/ Iran Hostage Crisis
52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days, after a group of Islamist students and militants supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the American Embassy in Tehran. -
Discovery of HIV/AIDS
A new virus is discovered, originally known as Gay Related Immune Deficiency (G.R.I.D.), but a cure is not found until many years later. -
Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
The United States and Soviet Union sign an agreement called The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty calling for the dismantle of all 1.752 and 859 soviet missiles -
The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet. English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Before the introduction to the public in 1991 the WWB was used in military intervention for the war. -
Berlin Wall Destroyed
After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the Wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere.
