Political Timeline

By Aniya1130

  • U.S. involvement in Cuba

    Because they believed that Cuba was not ready for independence.

  • Containment

    A geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II.

  • Truman Doctrine

    Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.

  • The Presidential Election

    Truman's surprise victory was the fifth consecutive presidential win for the Democratic Party.

  • Korean War

    When the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel,

  • Brown v. board of education

    Five separate cases that were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the issue of segregation in public schools.

  • Mccarthyism

    Acampaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950-1954.

  • Vietnam War

    The United States entered Vietnam with the purpose of preventing a communist takeover of the region.

  • Civil Rights Movement

    A struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program

  • Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.

  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.

  • The Tet Offensive

    A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.

  • Assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr

    King was shot while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel. King was rushed to a hospital and died an hour later.

  • The moon landing

    Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.