1945 to Present Timeline

By emma_marlowyo
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  • Mao Tse Tung leads communist revolution in China

  • Gandhi founded the modern nation of India

  • Jackie Robinson becomes the first black to play in the major league

  • Sen. Joseph McCarthy claims the State Dept. is full of communists

  • First color TV show

  • Marilyn Monroe commits suicide

  • Joseph Stalin Dies

  • Rosenbergs are executed for spying

  • Treaty signed ending Korean War

  • Bill Haley records "Rock Around the Clock"

  • Albert Einstein dies

  • First microwave open

  • Rosa Parks begins bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

  • US leaves Vietnam

  • Buddy Holly dies in plane crash

  • Pres. Eisenhower warns of the dangers of the 'military- industrial complex'

  • Yuri Gargarin orbits Earth

  • Alan Shepard goes into space

  • Berlin wall goes up

  • John Glenn orbits the Earth

  • Cuban missile crisis resolved peacefully

  • Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show

  • Dr. Martain Lther King says "I have a Dream"

  • James Meredith enrolls at Univ. of Alabama

  • Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated

  • Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered

  • US invasion of Dominican Republic

  • Bety Freidan finds the National Organization of Women

  • Cesar Chavez unionizes farm workers in California

  • First Superbowl

  • Muhammed Ali goes to jail

  • Sen. Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam war

  • Pres. Johnson refuses to run for a second term of office

  • Dr. Martain Luther King is assassinated

  • Vice Pres. Spiro Agnew resigns from office

  • Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon

  • Ho Chi Minh dies

  • Gloria Steinem publishes first edition on 'Ms.' Magazine

  • Nixon visits Red China

  • Watergate Hotel broke into

  • Isreali athletes slaughtered at Olympics

  • Pres. Nixon resigns

  • Henry Aaron breaks Babe's records

  • Gerald Ford becomes the first unelected president in history

  • Dad's Birthday

  • First Apple Computer sold

  • Elvis dies

  • Mom's Birthday

  • Jimmy Carter presides over Camp David Accords

  • Jim Jones leads followers into mass suicide

  • Ayatollah Khomeni takes power in Iran

  • Lee Iacoca takes over Chrysler

  • John Lennon murdered

  • Ronald Reagan becomes president

  • Christa McCauliffe is first civilian to ride space shuttle

  • Britian wins Falklands war

  • US invasion of Grenada

  • Berlin Wall goes down

  • US invasion of Panama

  • My Birthday

  • US invasion of Iraq