Postmodernism and post war timeline By kpatrick 1945 End of WW2 1950 Korea splits in to North and South at the DMZ 1954 "Lord of the Flies" is published by William Golding 1955 Vietnam War begins 1957 Russian's place Sputnik in to orbit 1961 Catch-22 is published by Jospeh Heller 1963 JFK assassinated in Dallas 1968 MLK Jr. assassinated 1969 Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon 1972 Last US combat in Vietnam, The Watergate scandal 1980 Ronald Reagan elected president of US 1987 Treaty between Gorbachev and Reagan ban nuclear missiles 1989 Berlin Wall torn down 1989 George Bush elected president 1992 Bill Clinton elected 1993 Toni Morrison wins Nobel Prize for literature 1996 Summer Olympic games held in Georgia 2001 9/11 Terrorist plane attack on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and PA. Many deaths 2004 George Bush re-elected 2010 oil spill in Gulf of Mexico 2011 Osama Bin Laden is killed 2016 Donald Trump elected as president
