History Time Line

  • End of WWII

    End of WWII
    WWII was over on April 29,1945.It was over when german forces surrendred
  • Brown vs.board of duacation

    Brown vs.board of duacation
    African-American children in Topeka, Kansas were denied access to all-white schools due to rules allowing for separate but equal facilities
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.
  • Montgomery

    Montgomery
    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system.
  • Little Rock

    Little Rock
    The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
  • Sputhnik launched

    History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik
  • U-2 incedent

    The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on May 1, 1960, during the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
  • Letter From Birmighan

    lette he wrote to get out of jail
  • March On Washington

    March On Washington
  • Cuban Missile

    Cuban Missile Crisis (known as The October Crisis in Cuba or Russian: Карибский кризис Caribbean Crisis in Russia) was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War.