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The Allied forces in the Western Europe of World War II; Eisenhower led the invasion of the Nazi-occupied of Europe which also began D-Day.
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The second wartime meeting with the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
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The last of World War II meetings which were held by the "Big Three" heads of the state.
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It seemed impossible for the people-- who lived there-- to get any supplies which made them retreat to Britain, France and the United States to get such things; the allies decided to supply their sectors from the air for the city.
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Also considered 'European Recovery Program" which went over thirteen billion towards the financial benefits of the economic recovery of Europe.
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President Harry Truman signed this executive order calling for desegregation for the military; the beginning of the fight for African- Americans to fight with the white troops.
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The first atomic bomb, the code name was announced as "First Lightning"; the Soviet used animals in cages to test the effects of the nuclear radiation on the "human-like mammals".
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Also known as the climax of the Chinese Communist drive; also the second part of the Chinese Civil War.
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Refused to commit towards the American troops from the Franco-Vietnamese War; the administration revisited the intervention of the war-- no United States troops to religion were authorized but military aid to the Frence were sent.
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Between the North and the South of Korea; United Nations forces by the United States of America have fought for the South of China and for the North-- which was assisted by the Soviet Union.
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Series of hearings by the United States Senate of investigations; were held for the purpose of investigating the conflicting the accusations between the United States Army and the Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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The unanimous decision which overturned the provisions of the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson decisions which were allowed for "seperate but equal" public facilities.
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After flirting with a white woman -- he was beated nearly to death, shot in the head then his body was tied to a cotton-gin fan with barbed wire then thrown into the river.
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The attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France; Great Britain and the United States to travel to Berlin-- to lay within the Russian- occupied East Germany.
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African Americans refused to ride city buses in Alabama, Montgomery which is the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. -- Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat for a white man on the bus.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law of authorization of the Interstate Highway System which was the largest public works in American History-- throughout that time frame.
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Also considered "Little Rock Nine" gave up their attempt towards the Central High School from the national debate of the Civil Rights of racial discrimination of the States rights.
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Launched to the corresponding International Geophysical Year from the solar period of the International Council of the Scientific Unions from the satellites to study Earth and the solar system.
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John F. Kennedy had defeated the Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon from a very close race.
