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This is when the first atomic bomb is signed into an agreement between the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt -
The marines the The United States landed on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in the first American offensive of WWII -
The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. is dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
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The unconditional surrender of Germany at Reims, France concludes the military engagements of World War II in Europe. -
They passed a $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey to battle Communist terrorism. -
The Soviet Union begins its land blockade of the Allied sectors of Berlin, Germany. -
The Korean War begins its three-year conflict when troops of North Korea, backed with Soviet weaponry, invade South Korea. -
The inauguration of trans-continental television occurs with the broadcast of President Truman's speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.
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The description of a double helix DNA molecule is published by British physicist Francis Crick and American scientist James D. Watson. -
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white passenger. Martin Luther King Jr. kicked off his civil rights career leading protesters in a boycott of the bus system, resulting in a Supreme Court decision that bus segregation was unconstitutional. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower was reelected president
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Following the Brown v. Board of Education, the NAACP registered 9 black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock in the 1957 school year. The school refused to let the students attend, and President Eisenhower responded by having the students escorted to class by a detachment of US Army Airborne troops. -
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Security of Defense Robert McNamara approves the sending of six divisions (200,000 men) of US troops to "advise" the South Vietnamese.
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In order to stimulate international trade, JFK lowered the American protective tariff.
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JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov 22, 1963. Lyndon Johnson was immediately sworn into the presidency.
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The 24th Amendment to the Constitution abolished the use of a poll tax in national votes.
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Lyndon B. Johnson was reelected as President of the United States on Nov 3, 1964. -
The Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory voting practices by states aiming to disenfranchise minorities.
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James Earl Ray killed MLK in his motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The killing set off a spree of riots and saw the end of the nonviolent protest movement, with the militant black power phase picking up pace.
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This legislation resulted in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal regulatory body dedicated to upholding the environmental regulations set in place by earlier Clean Air Acts. -
This grants those 18 years or older legal to vote.
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The Equal Rights Act was passed by Congress but failed to be ratified by the states. The goal of this act was to outlaw sex discrimination in the workplace,
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President Nixon withdrew all American forces from Vietnam, leaving South Vietnam to face the communists alone.
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After removing the French, the now independent Vietnam was split between a communist north and a pro-west south. For 20 years the North Vietnamese tried to conquer South Vietnamese, fighting intervening Americans until 1973. -
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They do this so in order to depose the communist regime in place there.
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The stock market crash known as "Black Monday" occurs, with a stock drop of over 22.6% in 1 day.
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The Berlin Wall that separated East and West Berlin is dismantled, reuniting Berlin. -
The United States invasion of Iraq in order to liberate Kuwait in Operation Desert Storm. -
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The World Trade Center in New York City is bombed by Islamic terrorists. 6 are killed and over 1000 people are injured. -
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols detonate a bomb outside the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. -
The Monica Lewinsky Scandal begins with President Clinton denying a relationship with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern. -
George W. Bush, son of former President George H.W. Bush, becomes President of the United States. -
The World Trade Center and the Pentagon are both attacked by airplanes hijacked by Islamic terrorists. Over 3000 are killed in the attacks. -
The War On Terror begins with a joint U.S. and U.K. attack on Taliban and Al- Qaeda positions in Afghanistan.