The Beginning of Today

  • The Korean War

    The Korean War
    The Korean War begins. The U.S. sides with South Korea and the Soviet Union sides with North Korea.
  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
    Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are found guilty of wartime espionage and sentenced to death.
  • Eisenhower Wins

    Eisenhower Wins
    General Dwight D. Eisenhower, a newcomer to politics, but popular due to his role in winning World War II as European commander
  • Public School Segregation Ends

    Public School Segregation Ends
    Racial segregation in public schools is declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in Brown vs. the Board of Education.
  • Disneyland Opens

    Disneyland Opens
    Disneyland opens. Walt Disney opened it due to his father working at world fairs.
  • Rosa Parks on the Bus

    Rosa Parks on the Bus
    Rosa Parks stays in the front of the bus and wont move for a white man. She got arrested later for not moving.
  • Highways

    Highways
    Interstate highway system begins with the signing of the Federal-Aid Highway Act. The interstate highway system would enable quick and efficient travel for business and leisure travelers and make destinations like Disneyland and the National Park system more easily connected to the urban population centers of the USA.
  • National Guard Called In

    National Guard Called In
    National Guard called to duty by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus to bar nine black students from attending previously all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • NASA

    NASA
    NASA selects the first seven military pilots to become the Mercury Seven, first astronauts of the United States.
  • Eisenhower and Khrushchez

    Eisenhower and Khrushchez
    President Dwight D. Eisenhower hosts Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev at his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania during the first visit of any Soviet Union leader to the United States.