1945 To Present Timeline Assignment

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    1945-2013

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

  • Mao tse tung leads communist revolution in China

  • Senator Joesph McCarthy claims the state Department is full of communists

  • First color T.V. show

  • Joeseph Stalin dies

  • Rosengurgs are executed for spying

  • Treaty signed to end the Korean War

  • Bill Haley record "Rock around the clock"

  • Albert Einstien Dies

  • Rosa Parks begins bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

  • Buddy Holly dies in plane crash

  • President Eisenhower warns of the dangers of the " military-industrial complex"

  • Yuri Gargarin orbits the earth

  • Allen Shepard goes into space

  • Berlin Wall goesup

  • John Glenn orbits the earth

  • Marilyn Monroe commits suicide

  • James Meredith enrolls at the University of Alabama

  • Cuban missle crisis resolved peacefully

  • Dr. Martin Luther King says " I have a dream"

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated

  • Lee Harvey Oswald is Murdered

  • Beatles appear on the Ed Sullivan Show

  • Peggy Lopez was born (my mom)

  • Betty Frieden founds the National Organization of Youth

  • First Super Bowl is played

  • First microwave oven

  • Muhammid Ali goes to jail

  • Senator Eugene McCarthy mobilizes the youth vote against the Vietnam War

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

  • Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated

  • Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated

  • Richard Nixon is elected for his first term of office

  • Ghandi founds modern nation of india

  • Neil Armstrong walks on the moon

  • Ho Chi Minh dies

  • Vice- President Spiro Agnew resigns from office

  • Gloria Steinem publishes the first edition of "MS" Magazine

  • Lawrence Lopez my born (my dad)

  • Nixon visits Red China

  • Isreali athletes slaughtered at Olympics

  • Watergate Hotel was broken into

  • Cesar Chavez unionizes farm workers in California

  • Henry Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's record

  • President Nixon resigns

  • General Ford becomes the first un-elected President in history

  • U.S. leaves Vietnam

  • First apple computer sold

  • Elvis Presley Dies

  • Jimmy Carter presides over Camp David Accord

  • Jim Jones leads followers into mass suicide

  • Ronald Reagon becomes president

  • John Lennon was Murdered

  • Britain wins Falklands War

  • Christa McCauliffe is first civilian to ride space shuttle

  • Berlin Wall goes down

  • Ayatollah Khomenti takes power in Iran

  • Lee Iacoca takes over Crysler

  • Heaven Lopez was born

  • U.S invasion of Dominico Republic/ Grenada/ Panama/ Iraq