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Korean War
United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China.The beginning of a long and tedious war. -
McCarthyism
a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs. -
Attack On un lines
Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines.Tis led to a full-on war against eachother. -
First Hydrogen bomb
The first test of a hydrogen bomb prototype was the "Ivy Mike" nuclear test in 1952, conducted by the United States. The first ready-to-use thermonuclear bomb "RDS-6s" was tested on in the Soviet Union. -
U.S performs nuke test
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.some malfunctions took place. -
Brown v. Board of Education
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Emmit till murdered
While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His assailants–the white woman’s husband and her brother–made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. -
Velcro Introduced
This was invented to help soldiers with shoe tying..then it became a world known fastening product. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school. -
NASA Founded
NASA Founded by president Dwight D. Eisenhower.increasing many space technologies. -
Nixon Debate
Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev over various things. -
Vietnam War
tensions between Vietnam and the U.S. became to high and thus began the Vietnam war -
Bay of pigs invasion
an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government , an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. -
Buddhist Monk Sets Himself on Fire in Protest
The man sits impassively in the central market square, he has set himself on fire performing a ritual suicide in protest against governmental anti-Buddhist policies. -
Jfk Assasination
President Kennedy, accompanied by the First Lady, travelled to Texas, where he was scheduled to make a number of appearances in a bid to drum up support for the Democratic Party prior to the 1964 general election.He was then shot in his car along with the secretary of state. -
First James Bond movie
the first james bond movie was made. -
American actor George Murphy begins his term as Senator of California
a Hollywood actor, singer and dancer who was later elected a United States Senator from California, -
Protests against war in london
4,000 demonstrated against the U.S. war in London outside the U.S. Embassy a number are arrested
15. November 30th Fifty to 100 students stage a sit-down protest around a Navy recruiter table in the UC Berkeley Student Union. -
Three U.S. Astronauts Killed During Simulated Launch
A launch pad fire during Apollo program tests at Cape Canaveral, Florida, kills astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chafee which had to do with faulty electrical wiring -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at age 39. -
Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon
as part of the Apollo 11 mission, astronaut Neil Armstrong opened the hatch of the lunar module (nicknamed Eagle) and stepped out onto the ladder,then onto the moon. -
Kent State Shootings
Ohio National Guardsmen were maintain order during a student protest against the Vietnam War And one shot 4 student dead and wounded 9 others. -
London Bridge Brought to the U.S
Bought by the Robert P. McCulloch the London Bridge was Brought to the U.S -
End Of Space Race
competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.After 17 years the U.S won the competition. -
Watergate Scandal Begins
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s. as a result break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington. -
Roe v. Wade legalizes Abortion
Roe (P), a pregnant single woman, brought a class action suit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas abortion laws. These laws made it a crime to obtain or attempt an abortion except on medical advice to save the life of the mother. -
Vietnam War
After 20 years of fighting the Vietnam war was finally over. according to the president the war was officially over. -
Presidential Election
he United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election. The winner was the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate, over the incumbent President Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate. -
end of disco
was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity declined in the United States in the late 1970s. On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago was formed. -
John Lennons's Mrder
John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career.He was shot by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the building where he lived. -
Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan
The attempted assassination of United States President Ronald Reagan occurred 69 days into his presidency. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., -
Reagonics
A popular term used to refer to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan which called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets. -
90's and Space
Start of the so called best decade of the 20th century and Hubble Space Telescope launched during Space Shuttle Discovery mission. -
Hiv/Aids
In 1983, scientists discovered the virus that causes AIDS. The virus was at first named HTLV-III/LAV (human T-cell lymphotropic virus-type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus by an international scientific committee. This name was later changed to HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
