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Berlin Airlift Begins
stalin blocks all roads and railroads and makes the first challenges for the cold war so truman calls in airlift for supplies and makes a year of continuos fighting. -
Korean War Begins
north tried to take over the south and so we jumped in to help keep safew and on our side but after awhile chinese stepped in and dragged everything out for 3 more years. -
Little rock nine
there was nine black highschool kids who were told that they could go to a white school and when they arrived they were threatened and called names if they entered the school people threatened to kill them so eisenhower the president of the united states sends army to accompany kids to classes. -
Emmett Till Murder
Emmitt Till was a teenage black boy but where he came from he was aloud to talk to white girls but when he came to visit he was in a totally diffrent area and didnt know not to talk " fresh " to a white woman att the local candy store. -
Kennedy elected president
He was the youngest man to ever be elected president and was also known to be the only catholic president. -
cuban missile crisis
U-2 plane flys over cuba and spotes missile areas being built and finds out its connected to nikita and then there was some tension and people thought war could break out at any second and then we blockaded cuba with submarines, aircrafts, and boats made sure that no supplies could get in and further there idea and kennedy made agreement to give them turkey and cuba would take away missiles but turkey would take out there missiles too. -
kennedy assassinated
kennedy went to dallas texas to win support and was warned of possible violence and refused the protective bubble that went over the car for protection so that he wouldnt DIE. -
tet offensive
so johnson was president and said that we would try and get out of vietnam and do it as soon as possible but then agrees to bomb over 100 areas and makes war go on longer. -
martin luther king jr. assassanated
doing a visit to memphis tennesse and was shot and the Lorraine motel and was pronounced dead 7:05 P.M. -
man on the moon
neil armstrong the first man to walk the moon said "one leap for man and one giant leap for man kind" and we also one the space race against soviets. -
Watergate Break - In
The Watergate Break - In is when 5 Nixon supporters broke into the Democatic National Headquaters to try to wire tap there phones to help Nixon win. Also trying to steal documents. Nixon attempted to cover up his involement in the crime by keeping the FBI from investigating and also keeping the tapes so that they couldnt be heard. -
U.S. exits vietnam
nixon slowly decreases the amount of american soldiers in vietnam and south vietnam is left to defend itself but south has a shaky goverment and a very small also weak army. -
U.S. Exits Vietnam
President Nixon got North Vietnam to sign a peace agreement, Therefore the U.S. left Vietnam by the end of 1973. Afterwards North resummed attack on South Vietnam, when the U.S. could no longer defend them. In April 1975 Saigon falls to the commenist , Vietnam united under one rule. -
Ronald Reagan Elected President
The poll showed a close race. The debates showed that Reagan was friendly opponet. He won on a postive message, Amerca can come home. -
Callenger Explosion
the challenger exploded 73 seconds into its flight. On its mission (STS-51-L). -
berlin wall comes down
on the day of 1989 oct. 9 the berlin wall came crasing down and was guarded by 302 watch towers and 20 bunkers so that no one could get across. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
In April 1995 , Timothy Mcveigh and Terry Nicholes bombed a fereral building over anger towards the federal goverment . It killed 168 & wounded 680. It was known as the worst terror atack unil 9/11 -
bush defeats gore
bush sold himself as a down to earth, likeable person and it was the cosest election in history voting came down to floridas resulting vote. -
9/11
9/11 was the worlds most horrible day and will be a day that will always be remembered and for those that have lost family on such a terrible day are probably very thankful also. -
barack obama elected president
first milk choclate president ever and has had some bad days and some good days but hes doing better now. - Steven.
