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Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in history to play Major League Baseball, allowing for black athletes to continue to compete today -
Soviet Nuclear Power
The Soviet Union successfully tests a nuclear bomb, making it the second country after the United States to have that power. -
Korean War Begins
The United States fights communism in Korea after the Communist state of North Korea invades South Korea. Americans no longer have to die to fight communism in a far away land and everyone can sleep good at night. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Segregation is illegal in American schools between African Americans and whites. Now African American students have the same opportunities as white children in the United States. -
Polio Cure
Jonas Salk tests his cure to polio and it works, he begins administering it to people nationwide and worldwide and polio is no longer and disease that plagues the world. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba and President JFK orders a blockade of Cuban waters from Soviet ships successfully ending the situation. Now Americans do not have to worry about nuclear warheads aimed at the US from Cuba. -
John F. Kennedy is Assassinated
President JFK is assassinated while taking a ride in his open top limo in Texas. The President no longer can ride in open top limos and people are in fear and are mourning their president's death. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlaws public discrimination against African Americans. This helps allow African Americans participate in the American dream without being discriminated against. -
Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to visit the moon, ending the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union with America on top. Now America is leading in the Cold War and the American citizen doesn't live in near as much fear and can do most whatever they want. -
Paris Peace Accords
After years of fighting in Vietnam the accords are signed that bring a formal end to fighting. All of the men who fought and are still living now get the opportunity to make their own lives at home instead of fighting in a war in a far away land.
