History Timeline

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    TimeSpan

  • US History 1890-1920

  • US History 1890-1920

  • US History

  • US History 1947

    US History 1947
    Beginning of cold war
  • US History - 1945

    US History - 1945
    United Nations Founded
  • US History 1949

    US History 1949
    NATO formed
  • US History 1950

    US History 1950
    Chinese Civil War ends
  • US History 1950-1953

    US History 1950-1953
    The Korean War
  • US History 1955

    US History 1955
    Warsaw Pact formed
  • US History 1957

    US History 1957
    Launching of Sputnik 1 (first artificial satelite in 1957)
  • US History 1959

    US History 1959
    Vietnam War beigns
  • US History 1961

    US History 1961
    Yuri Gargarin becomes the first human in space
  • US History 1961

    US History 1961
    Berlin Wall beigns construction
  • US History 1961

    US History 1961
    Tsar Bomba a nuclear weapon that is tested by the Soviet Union
  • US History 1962-1965

    US History 1962-1965
    Second Vatican Council
  • US History 1969

    US History 1969
    Apollo 11 first manned mission to the moon
  • US History 70's

    US History 70's
    counterculture
  • US History 1975

    US History 1975
    Vietnam War ends
  • US History 1979-1989

    US History 1979-1989
    Soviet Russia invades Afghanistan
  • US History 1980-1988

    US History 1980-1988
    Iran-Iraq War
  • US History 1989

    US History 1989
    Tiananmen Square Protest
  • US History 1989

    US History 1989
    Berlin Wall breache, Gernmany reunited
  • US History 1991

    US History 1991
    Cold War leaving the US as the only major world power