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United States became an ally to communist-trained Ho Chi Minh, and after War World II he saw an opportunity to declare independence from Japan.
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This era in time was seen as an "East vs. West" division of Europe. Each area had their own political, social, economic controlled.
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The Soviet closed off main highways for supply trucks and need supplies, depriving Berlin of the nessessities. Joesph Stalin tried to force other countries to negotiate on his terms. Air drops happened for three years and finally ended in 1949.
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20 million citizens were killed by the Soviet Union and Soviets occupied Eastern Europe as a buffer zone against German invasion.
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United States became the primary ally of the Vietnimese State and advised vietnanimese armies.
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This decision on segration of schools allowed blacks to attend white schools all over the nation.
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Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus and was arrested doing so. This act initiated the Montgomery Bus Boycott and it finally ended in 1956.
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Soviet Union 2 satillites, powered by rockets. People believed that these satillites had the potential to become spaced-based weapons. It put the soviet society in the lead into technology.
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A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by a CIA sponsered military group. John F. Kennedy evenutally took responsibility for the lives lost and the embarrassment caused to the CIA network.
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During the middle of his presidentcy John F. Kennedy was publicly asassinated in Dallas, Texas. Shot twice by Lee Harvey Oswald. He is remembered for establishing a great society, and for his contribution to domestic activism.
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The country of China successfully conducted its first atomic bomb testing.
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South Vietnam falls to the communist forces of South Korea.
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South and North Korea ended their "civil war", due to the fall of Saigon.
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Soviet Union abolished, Communists stage unsuccessful coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Soviet Union abolished. Boris Yeltish becomes President of Russia.
