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Truman signs Executive Order 9981
Ended segregation in the armed forces -
Korean war begins
North Korea invades South Korea -
Period: to
Korean War
Americas involvement in the Korean war -
Truman signs peace treaty with japan
Truman signs peace treaty -
polio vaccine discovered
Polio was a epidemic of that time and a vaccine was a god send -
Joseph Stalin's death
Joseph stalin dies -
The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.
unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional. -
First atomic sub launched
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Warsaw pact signed
Warsaw pact signed by america -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger
Rosa parks was a very important person of the time -
Suez Crisis
egypt is attacked by isreal -
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth
Helped with the civil rights movement' -
Soviet Sputnik starts space age
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NASA founded
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April 18 - Dr. King speaks for the integration of schools at a rally
in WA DC April 18
- 26000 people show up -
Fidel castro becomes dictator of Cuba
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One Federal judge throws out segregation on Atlanta, GA buses
segregation on some GA busses ends -
February 1 – Four black students sit at the Woolworth's lunch counter
6 months of "sitins" begin in Greensboro -
Civil Rights Act of 1960 signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Big win for colored people in America -
JFK elected president
famous for being rich
35th pres -
JFK assassination
Crazy event
wife held his brain -
Civil righs act of 1964
Made it illegal to discriminate based on color -
Tonkin gulf incident
two separate confrontations involving North Vietnam and the United States -
Malcom X assassinated
Civil rights leader for the time along with MLK -
The tet offencive
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched -
Robert kennedy assassinated
JFK's brother
also very famous -
Democratic convention in Chi town
Meeting place for all demicrats
riots broke out -
Cuban missle crisis
Russian scumbag puts nukes in cuba close enough to kill ameicans
Scumbag russian backs down like a good guy would -
First american into space
Alan Shepard first american into space -
Nixon Inagurated
nixion becomes the 37th president of the US -
Man lands on moon
"one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Neil armstrong and Buzz aldrin land on moon -
Nixion legalizes abortion
in 1st trimester of pregnancy -
Watergate coverup
Nixon is not famous for being pres, bu tfor being a scum bag -
Nixions second inaguatoin
Im back! -
Jimmy Carter 39th president of the US
Newest pressident of the time
Not jim carter pictured, thats jimmy buffet -
Carter meets with Isral and Egypt pres.
End 30 year conflit
Saves lots of lives
Jimmy buffet again -
Set up diplomatic ties with mainland china
first time since the communitsic 1949 take over -
Regan is shot in the chest
John hinkly jr shoots regan in the chest in the face -
Regan becomes 40th pres
Sworn in with a bible by anothe peron -
US invades graneda
Cus were g like that -
Congress holds public hearings in Iran-Contra investigation
Congress holds public hearings in Iran-Contra investigation (May 5–Aug. 3). In a speech in Berlin, President Reagan challenges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall” and open Eastern Europe to political and economic reform
