History

US History II

By D Antonucci

  • Hydrogen Bomb

    Hydrogen Bomb
    Truman orders development of the Hydrogen Bomb.

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    North Korean Communists invade South Korea.

  • Mcarthyism Begins

    Mcarthyism Begins
    Mcarthy starts Mcarthyism.

  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Sentenced to Death

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Sentenced to Death
    Sold Atomic Secrets to the Russians.

  • Japaneese Peace Treaty

    Japaneese Peace Treaty
    Signed in San Francisco by 49 Nations.

  • Elizabeth ll

    Elizabeth ll
    Elizabeth ll becomes queen.

  • Eisenhower for President

    Eisenhower for President
    Gen Dwight D Eisenhower inaugurated for President.

  • Death of Stalin

    Death of Stalin
    Joseph Stalin Dies.

  • Discovery of Moleculer Model of DNA

    Discovery of Moleculer Model of DNA
    James Watson and Francis Crick publish their model of DNA.

  • Korean Armistice Signed

    Korean Armistice Signed
    Korea signs its Armistice.

  • Moscow Hydrogen Bomb

    Moscow Hydrogen Bomb
    Moscow announces their Hydrogen Bomb.

  • Atomic Submarine

    Atomic Submarine
    Launched by Nautlius .

  • Rosa Parks Bus incident

    Rosa Parks Bus incident
    Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat.

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    Russians launch first Satellite into space

  • United Arab Republic

    United Arab Republic
    Egypst and Syria merged.

  • Berling Wall

    Berling Wall
    In order to prevent further escape, and to keep the professional classes trapped, they built a wall

  • First man in space

    First man in space
    Yuri A. Gagarin spends one hour and forty-eight minutes on his orbital flight.

  • First American in Space

    First American in Space
    Alan B. Shepard flight lasted 15 minutes.

  • Man orbits the earth.

    Man orbits the earth.
    John Glenn is the first American to orbit the earth.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis.

    Cuban Missile Crisis.
    Soviet Union building nuclear installations on Cuba.

  • Longest non-stop flight

    Longest non-stop flight
    U.S. plane flew 3,600 miles is in ten hours.

  • First woman in space.

    First woman in space.
    Valentina V. Tereshkova of the Soviet Union enters space.

  • "I Have a Dream" speech.

    "I Have a Dream" speech.
    Martin Luther King told his famous speech.

  • JFK Assassination

    JFK Assassination
    American president shot and killed.

  • First man to walk in space

    First man to walk in space
    Soviet Aleksei A. Leonov becomes the first man to walk in space for about 10 minutes.

  • First American to walk in space.

    First American to walk in space.
    Edward White becomes the first American astronaut to walk in space and for about 20 minutes.

  • First Super Bowl

    First Super Bowl
    The start of the ongoing Super Bowl games.

  • First Heart Transplant

    First Heart Transplant
    South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard conducted the first heart transplant on 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky.

  • Apollo 8

    Apollo 8
    U.S. astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William A. Anders, becomes the first manned space vessel to orbit the moon.

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    America landed and walked on the moon.

  • First Earth Day

    First Earth Day
    Millions of Americans participated in Anti-Pollution Demonstrations.

  • Protest at Kent University Ohio

    Protest at Kent University Ohio
    4 Students killed and 9 wounded by a National Guardsman during a Vietnam Protest.

  • Raid on Laus

    Raid on Laus
    South Vietnamese soldiers is begun with the aid of United States air and artillery lasting for 44 days.

  • Disney Empire Comes to East Coast

    Disney Empire Comes to East Coast
    Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.

  • American Strategic Arms Pact with Soviet Union.

    American Strategic Arms Pact with Soviet Union.
    President Nixon traveld to Moscow for week of summit discussions.