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Cold war
The Cold War is the name given to the relationship that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. The Cold War was to dominate international affairs for decades and many major crises occurred - the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary and the Berlin Wall being just some -
McCarthyism
the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence -
The Korean War
a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education
landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Emmett Till Murder
African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman -
The "Little Rock Nine"
Nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. -
Space Race
On October 4, 1957, during a reception for the IGY participants at the Soviet embassy, the news came that the Soviet Union had just launched Sputnik, the first Earth satellite -
Elvis Presley
Elvis was drafted into the Army -
Jimi Hendrix
After law enforcement authorities had twice caught Hendrix riding in stolen cars, he was given a choice between spending time in prison or serving in the US military: he chose the latter and enlisted in the Army. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, -
Lyndon B. Johnson
the 36th President of the United States (1963–1969), a position he assumed after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States (1961–1963). -
George Wallace
He took the oath of office to be Governor of Alabama on this day -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
vietnam war
The Vietnam War was the prolonged struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States -
War protest
Vietnam war Protest began small but in 1965 it gained national Prominence. On this day it was organized by professors against the war at the University of Michigan -
Malcom X assassination
assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. -
Hippie Culture
They made their way to Northern California this year. The Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco popularized hippie culture, leading to the legendary Summer of Love on the West Coast of the United States. -
Martin Luther King Jr assassination
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39 -
Woodstock
Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert (which rolled into a fourth day) that involved lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll - plus a lot of mud -
Disco Music
Disco is a genre of music which was popular from the mid to late 1970s -
Ping-Pong Diplomacy
The U.S. got an invitation to play China at China and these were the first Americans to set foot in China since 1949. -
Nike
The company changed its name from Blue Ribbon Sports to Nike, Inc. -
Jimmy Carter
In the third mile of a tough 6.2-mile race through the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland, Jimmy Carter suffered from heat exhaustion -
Hiv ans Aids
In the early 1980s, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic began, patients rarely lived longer than a few years. -
Ronald Reagan/ Reaganomics
Economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are commonly associated with supply-side economics, referred to as trickle-down economics by political opponents -
John lennon murder
He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on 8 December 1980 -
Ronald Reagan assassination attempt
The Reagan assassination attempt occurred on Monday, March 30, 1981, just 69 days into the presidency of Ronald Reagan -
Falling of berlin wall
November 9, 1989, an announcement made by East German government official Günter Schabowski stated, "Permanent relocations can be done through all border checkpoints between the East Germany into West Germany or West Berlin." -
fall of communism
in 1989, Solidarity formed the first noncommunist government within the Soviet bloc since 1948 -
technological advances
The World Wide Web or internet is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. Whch was made on this day -
Breakup of soviet union
In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries
