1950-1990

  • The Korean War

  • Ku Klux Klan

    The Christmas eve bombing of the home of the NAACP by the white supremacist group
  • The Space Race

    The U.S. and Soviet Union race to be the first to get the space/the moon
  • Desegregation of schools

    Nine African American students enrolled in a previously all white school in Little Rock.
  • The Berlin wall

    GDR, East Germany constructed this wall to cut off West Berlin
  • George Wallace takes office

    Took his oath to be Governor of Alabama.
  • Integration in University of Alabama.

    The school was ordered to admit two African American students for the first time.
  • Ping Pong Diplomacy

    The US ping pong team played china in chine and were the first Americans in china since 1949
  • Vietnam War

    US pulls out of war
  • John Lennon's Murder

    He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of The Dakota, the building he lived in in NYC.
  • Assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan

    John Hinckley, Jr. shot President Reagan and three others only 69 days into Reagan's presidency at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
  • Cold War

    The New Reagan Doctrine formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments.