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Vietnam war
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. -
The Korean war
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
Cold War
Cold war conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces on Korean Peninsula. North Korean communists invade South Korea -
President Truman
President Truman removes Gen. Douglas MacArthur as head of U.S. Far East Command -
Ku Klux Klan
Christmas Eve bombing of the home of NAACP -
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico becomes a U.S. commonwealth (July 25). First hydrogen bomb is detonated by the U.S. on Eniwetok, an atoll in the Marshall Islands -
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th president of the United States of America. -
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed for passing secret information about U.S. atomic weaponry to the Soviets. -
Civil rights movement
Rosa Parks ignites 381-day bus boycott organized by Martin Luther King, Jr.They was not getting on busses and were walking to teir destination. That way the bus companies cant make any money. -
Emmett Tills murder
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the U.S. The war began in 1955 (though conflict in the region stretched back to the mid-1940s), after the rise to power of Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party in North Vietnam, continued against the backdrop of an intense Cold War between two global superpowers the United States/Soviet Union. -
Joseph McCarthy
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed frighteningly real to many people in the United States. These fears came to define–and, in some cases, corrode–the era’s political culture. For many Americans, the most enduring symbol of this “Red Scare” was Republican Senator Joseph P. McCarthy of Wisconsin. Senator McCarthy spent almost five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left-wing “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government. -
The space race
After World War II drew to a close in the mid-20th century, a new conflict began. Known as the Cold War, this battle pitted the world’s two great powers the democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union–against each other. Beginning in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and by extension its political economic system. -
Explorer I
Explorer I, first American satellite, is launched -
Marilyn Monroe
Dr. Ralph Greenson, Monroe's psychiatrist, called saying that Monroe was found dead at her home at 12305 Fifth Helena Drive in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. She was 36 years old. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten-month investigation from November 1963 to September 1964 by the Warren Commission concluded that Kennedy was assassinated by Harvey Oswald acting alone. -
President Johnson
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act -
Marthin Luther King, Jr.
On October 14,1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year he and SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include poverty and speak against the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". King was assassinated on April 4. -
Malcolm X
In February 1965 he was assassinated by three Nation of Islam members. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published shortly after his death, is considered one of the most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century -
Assasination of Robert F. Kennedy
The assassination of Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of assassinated President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California, during the campaign season for the United States Presidential election, 1968. -
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr., become the first men to land on the Moon -
Nixon's reelection
Five men, all employees of Nixon's reelection campaign, are caught breaking into rival Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973, often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States, a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President. -
President Carter
President Carter meets with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin at Camp David -
HIV/AIDS
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus that causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive. -
U.S Mission
U.S. mission to rescue hostages in Iran is aborted after a helicopter and cargo plane collide at the staging site in a remote part of Iran and 8 servicemen are killed -
John Lennon murder
John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on Monday, 8 December 1980. Lennon had just returned from Record Plant Studio with his wife, Yoko Ono. -
President Reagan
President Reagan is shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr. -
Equal Rights Amendment
Deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution passes without the necessary votes -
Caribbean Island of Grenada
U.S. invades Caribbean island of Grenada after a coup by Marxist faction in the government. -
Space shuttle Challenger
Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. -
President Reagan
In a speech in Berlin, President Reagan challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” and open Eastern Europe to political and economic reform -
George H. Bush
George H. W. Bush is inaugurated as the 41st president of the United States of America. -
Exxon Valdez
Oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Prince William Sound, spilling more than 10 million gallons of oil. -
Iraqi troops
Iraqi troops invade Kuwait, leading to the Persian Gulf War
