US history b's timeline

Truman signs Executive Order 9981

Jul 26, 1943

Ended segregation in the armed forces

Korean war begins

Jun 25, 1950

North Korea invades South Korea

Korean War

Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953

Americas involvement in the Korean war

Truman signs peace treaty with japan

Sep 8, 1951

Truman signs peace treaty

polio vaccine discovered

Jul 8, 1952

Polio was a epidemic of that time and a vaccine was a god send

Joseph Stalin's death

Mar 5, 1953

Joseph stalin dies

The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.

May 17, 1954

unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.

First atomic sub launched

Jul 9, 1954

Warsaw pact signed

Jul 9, 1955

Warsaw pact signed by america

Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger

Dec 1, 1955

Rosa parks was a very important person of the time

Suez Crisis

Jul 9, 1956

egypt is attacked by isreal

Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth

Feb 14, 1957

Helped with the civil rights movement'

Soviet Sputnik starts space age

Jul 9, 1957

NASA founded

Jul 9, 1958

April 18 - Dr. King speaks for the integration of schools at a rally

Apr 18, 1959

in WA DC April 18
- 26000 people show up

Fidel castro becomes dictator of Cuba

Jul 9, 1959

One Federal judge throws out segregation on Atlanta, GA buses

Jul 30, 1959

segregation on some GA busses ends

February 1 – Four black students sit at the Woolworth's lunch counter

Feb 11, 1960

6 months of "sitins" begin in Greensboro

Civil Rights Act of 1960 signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower

May 6, 1960

Big win for colored people in America

JFK elected president

Jan 8, 1961

famous for being rich
35th pres

JFK assassination

Jul 30, 1963

Crazy event
wife held his brain

Civil righs act of 1964

Jul 30, 1964

Made it illegal to discriminate based on color

Tonkin gulf incident

Jul 30, 1964

two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States

Malcom X assassinated

Jul 30, 1965

Civil rights leader for the time along with MLK

The tet offencive

Jan 30, 1968

The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched

Robert kennedy assassinated

Jul 30, 1968

JFK's brother
also very famous

Democratic convention in Chi town

Jul 30, 1968

Meeting place for all demicrats
riots broke out

Cuban missle crisis

Jul 30, 1968

Russian scumbag puts nukes in cuba close enough to kill ameicans
Scumbag russian backs down like a good guy would

First american into space

Jul 30, 1968

Alan Shepard first american into space

Nixon Inagurated

Jan 20, 1969

nixion becomes the 37th president of the US

Man lands on moon

Jul 30, 1969

"one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Neil armstrong and Buzz aldrin land on moon

Nixion legalizes abortion

Aug 6, 1973

in 1st trimester of pregnancy

Watergate coverup

Aug 6, 1973

Nixon is not famous for being pres, bu tfor being a scum bag

Nixions second inaguatoin

Jan 9, 1974

Im back!

Jimmy Carter 39th president of the US

Jan 20, 1977

Newest pressident of the time
Not jim carter pictured, thats jimmy buffet

Carter meets with Isral and Egypt pres.

Aug 6, 1978

End 30 year conflit
Saves lots of lives
Jimmy buffet again

Set up diplomatic ties with mainland china

Aug 6, 1979

first time since the communitsic 1949 take over

Regan is shot in the chest

Mar 29, 1981

John hinkly jr shoots regan in the chest in the face

Regan becomes 40th pres

Aug 6, 1981

Sworn in with a bible by anothe peron

US invades graneda

Aug 6, 1983

Cus were g like that

Congress holds public hearings in Iran-Contra investigation

Aug 6, 1987

Congress holds public hearings in Iran-Contra investigation (May 5–Aug. 3). 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