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GI Bill enacted
The GI Bill of Rights was the nick-name for what was originally known in Congress as "The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944", -
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US HISTORY TIMELINE PROJECT
A timeline discussing major and important events happening around the world from 1944 to 2003 -
Brown V. Board
This case took on segregation within school systems, or the separation of white and black students within public schools. -
Polio vaccine widely available
Jonas Salk introduces polio vaccine and helps around 20,000 people. -
Montgomery bus boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest by the African-Americans about the buses in the Montgomery area. -
Suez Canal crisis
1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw.[15] -
USSR Launches Sputnick
the Soviet Union sent into orbit Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite in history. Meaning the Soviet Union beat us at something -
U-2 spylane shot down
The 1960 U-2 incident was precipitated during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.This was important because it was a great embarrassment to the united states, -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion, known in Hispanic America as La Batalla de Girón, was an unsuccessful military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961Important because President Fulgencio Batista, a right-wing ally of the U.S., -
Construction of Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin important because it prevented massive emigration and defaction. -
Silent spring is published
The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. This is important because The book documented detrimental effects of pesticides on the environment, particularly on birds -
Cuban Missile Crisis
a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, in October 1962 Its important because it was a major confrontation during the Cold War. -
Feminine Mystique published
The Feminine Mystique is a nonfiction book by Betty Friedan, first published in 1963, which is widely credited with sparking the beginning of second-wave feminism in the United States. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes leader of soviet union
the first (and last) president of the Soviet Union from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991. Is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, -
Kennedy Assassinated
35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas important because the conclusion 1978 that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. -
Civil rights of 1964 passed
that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States -
Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin resolution
passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. A joint resolution. Importance.The Johnson administration subsequently relied upon the resolution to begin its rapid escalation of U.S. military involvement in South Vietnam and open warfare between North Vietnam and the United States. -
Malcom X Assassinated
African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. Shot because of discrimination -
Tet offensive begins
The Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnam against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. Campaign of surprising attacks launched at vietnam control centers -
Martin Luther King assassinated
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. Importance. assassination was carried out by a conspiracy involving the US government, as alleged by Loyd Jowers in 1993, and that James Earl Ray was a scapegoat. In a 1999 civil trial that did not name the US government as a defendant and sought $100 from Jowers, with both the family and Jowers cooperating together and the only presenting parties, the jury ruled against Jowers and Unidentified Co -
National Gaurd troops kill student protesters at Kent State
also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis. Importance. Students who were shot were unarmed. and just protesting their beliefs. -
Nixon Visits China and soviet union
Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC).importance.It marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC, which at that time considered the U.S. one of its staunchest -
Watergate Burglars arrested
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974 — -
Roe V. Wade decision issued
a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion -
Last U.S. Troops leave Vietnam
U.S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973 as a result of the Case–Church Amendment passed by the U.S. Congress The capture of Saigon by the Vietnam People's Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, -
Senate Watergates investigation begins
Regarding the burglary and illegal wiretapping of the Headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex by members of President Richard Nixon's re-election committee and subsequent abuse of powers by the president and administration officials to halt or hinder the investigation into the same.Nixon refuses to turn over presidential tapings to Senate Watergate Committee or the special prosecutor.
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Apple introduces mouse and on-screen icons
Importance. makes computers more personal and makes it an anyone can use it kind of technology. -
Nuclear accident at 3 mile island
a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred in one of the two United States Three Mile Island nuclear reactors in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979. It was the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. -
Soviets invade afghanistan
he Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen. The decade-long war resulted in millions of Afghans fleeing their country, mostly to Pakistan and Iran -
Reagan anounces the star wars program
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles The ambitious initiative was widely criticized as being unrealistic, even unscientific as well as for threatening to destabilize MAD and re-ignite "an offensive arms race" -
World Wide Web is developed in Switzerland
In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee, an independent contractor at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, built ENQUIRE, as a personal database of people and software models, but also as a way to play with hypertext; each new page of information in ENQUIRE had to be linked to an existing pageis a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet -
Tienanmen Square
Tiananmen Square is a large city square in the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen Gate (Gate of Heavenly Peace) located to its North, separating it from the Forbidden City. Tiananmen Square is the third largest city square in the world -
Berlin wall falls
After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. a euphoric public and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the wall; the governments later used industrial equipment to remove most of the rest. The physical Wall itself was primarily destroyed in 1990. The fall -
Germany reunites
was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic (GDR/East Germany) joined the Federal Republic of Germany when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The end of the unification process is officially referred to as German unity (German: Deutsche Einheit), celebrated on 3 October -
Soviet union dissolves
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved on 26 December 1991 by declaration № 142-H of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. This declaration acknowledged the independence of the twelve republics of the Soviet Union that subsequently created the Commonwealth of Independent States. -
NAFTA Founded
an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement between the U.S. and Canada. -
Nixon Resigns
continuing series of revelations about the Watergate scandal and other misconduct by members of the administration. The scandal escalated, costing Nixon much of his political support, and on August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office.After his resignation, he controversially received a pardon issued by his successor -
Clinton Impeached
impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice, on December 19, 1998. He was acquitted by the Senate on February 12, 1999. Requiring a two-thirds majority for a conviction, only 50 senators (out of 100) voted guilty on the obstruction charge and 45 on the perjury charge -
Flordida causes a contested presidential election
This marked only the fourth elction in us history in which the benchmark winner failed to win in a pluralitry of the popular vote. -
Terrorists attack world trade center and pentagon
Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C. area on September 11, 2001. -
US invades Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 19 March 2003 to 1 May 2003, and signaled the start of the conflict that later came to be known as the Iraq War, which was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States. Others place a much greater emphasis on the impact of the 11 September 2001 attacks, and the role this played in changing U.S. strategic calculations, and the rise of the freedom agenda.According to Blair, the trigger was Iraq's failure to take a "final opportunity" to disarm
