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Joseph McCarthy
McCarthy created a list of known communists inside teh state department. Four years later, he made attacks on communists inside the goverment. Though, there is no known date for when this happened. -
Korean War Begins
Began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, The boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. -
Colored TV
CBS broadcasted the very first commerical color TV program. Yet nearly no one was ever able to see it because they didnt have a tv that could see color. -
KKK Christmas Attack
On Christmas Eve the Ku Kluk Klan bombing of the home of NAACP. -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy became the thirty-fifth American president. Mr. Kennedy worked with Martin Luther King to bring about the Civil Rights movement. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th president. President Eisenhower helped put an end the Korean War. -
Korean War End
"Technally" the war with Korean isn't over. Infact, we simply signed a cease fire agreement in 1953. -
Civil Rights Movements
though slaver was gone segragation took its place which led to the civil right movement. An era from 1954 to 1968 where the African African race fought for equality. -
End of Segragation
Om May 17th the Supreme Court overturned the Plessy V. Ferguson decision by ruling that segragation was "inherently unequal." Thus outlawing both slavery and segragation. -
Disney Land
Disney opened for the first time for a few thousand adults and children who were specially invited. The following day, Disney offically opened to the public in California. -
Emmit Till Murdered
A 14-year-old African American teenager was brutally murdered by white men while visiting relatives in Mississippi. He killed for reportedly flirting with a white women. -
Rosa Parks Refused to Move
In Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled. -
Bus Boycott Begins
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks. The bus boycott was a 13 month long period where the African Americans of Montgomery refused to ride the bus until the segragation of buses is outlawed. -
Bus Boycott Ends
The bus boycott offically ended after lasted 381 days. The city passed an ordinance authorizing black bus passengers to sit virtually anywhere they chose on buses after the Surpreme Court ruled the bus segragation is unconstitutional. -
US in the Vietnam War
The United States entered the Vietnam War to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of a wider strategy called containment. -
NASA
National Areonautics and Space Act was signed in 1958 by President Eisenhower. Which created the National Aeronautics and SPace Adminstration. -
Sit Ins
The Greenboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protest in Greensboro, North Carlina. These students sat in the whites only seats at a local diner. -
Death of Marilyn
This was the day Marilyn took her life. The final cause of death was suicide by self-administered overdose of sedative drugs. -
Moon Speech
Kennedy believed there was a possibility for some kind of new movement in the U.S. relations withe the Soviet Union, he began to look for an opportunity to make a peace speech. -
March on Washington
More than 200,00 American gathered in Washington D.C., for aoilitical rally known as The March on Washington for jobs and freedom for the African American population. This is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. calling for justice and equaliy. -
I Have a Dream
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. He spoke to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement -
John F Kennedy Assassinated
John F. Kennedy became the thirty-fifth American president. Mr. Kennedy worked with Martin Luther King to bring about the Civil Rights movement. He was assassinated during his third year as president. -
University Against War
Shortly after the U.S got involved in the Vietnam war protest began. On huge protest was held at the Universiy of Michigan. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom when someone in the 400-person audience yelled, "Nigger! Get your hand outta my pocket!" -
The First Super Bowl
The first Super Bowl was first ever AFL-NFL Championship in professional American football. It was a game of the Green Bay Packers agaianst the Dallas Cowboys. -
Hippie Movement
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. Assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinatedby a gun shot wound as he stood on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel. -
Assasination of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy, commonly known as "Bobby" or by his initials RFK, was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as a Senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in a hotel in Los Angeles, California. -
Cease Fire Agreement
Nixon announces that an agreement has been reached with Vietnam which will "end the war and bring preace with honor." With this, US trrops then withdrew from Vietnam. -
Cell Phones
Prior to 1973, mobile telephony was limited to phones installed in cars and other vehicles. Motorola was the first company to produce a handheld mobile phone. On 3 April 1973 when Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Cooper weighed 1.1 kg and measured 23 cm long, 13 cm deep and 4.45 cm wide. The prototype of -
First to Resign
Nixon resigned when the public was awaken of the Watergate burglary scandal. Nixon went down as the first president to resign in American history. -
Elvis Dies
Elvis was an American rock and roll star who died at the age 42. Its said that Elvis have a drug abuse probelm that was off the charts. -
First Case
First case of AIDS was found in San Francisco. Started because of the Hippie Movement. -
John Leenon Murdered
He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City. -
Assassination Attempt
Only 69 days into his presidency of Ronald Reagan. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. -
HIV/ AIDS
On June 5, 1981, the virus that would become known as HIV was mentioned for the first time in a medical publication. -
IBM Computers
IBMs personal compiter were introduced to the public a year after being created by Bill Lowe. -
MJ Thriller
Triller is the sixth studio album by Micheal Jackson. It was released Novemeber 30th by Epic Records. -
Women in Space
Sally Ride goes down in hustory as being the first American women to travel to space. She joined NASA in 1978 as part of the astronaut class to accept. -
Titanic Found
The discovery came more than 73 years after the luxury liner, said to be unsinkable, struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and went down, resulting in the loss of more than 1,500 lives. The ship was the biggest and most luxurious liner of her day. -
Space Shuttle Explosion
Space shuttle broke apart only 73 second into its flight, ending the lives of the sven crew memebers. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida at 11:38 -
Technoligical Advances
The World Wide Web or internet is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. Whch was made on this day. -
Cold War
Reagan's anti-communist position had developed into a stance known as the new Reagan Doctrine which, in addition to containment, formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments.
