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DipityInternational Troops from the countries under the Warsaw Pact invade and try to take Czechoslovakia.
Domestic Richard M. Nixion is elected the 37th President of the United States.
Domestic Thurgood Marshall becomes the first Afrian American Justice of the Supreme Court.
International Israel wins Arag territories in the six day war.
Domestic LBJ is ellected in the next presidental run.
Domestic Congress Passes Economic Opportunity Act and Civil Rights Act. Granting more people more rights.
Domestic JFK is assassinated and LBJ becomes the next president and is called the "Lame Duck" Prisident
International The offical start time of the cuben missile crisis, the soviets begin giving cuba missiles this worries the US because cuba is so close.
Domestic John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth.
International The United States launches the Bay of Pigs Invasion this opperation is a huge failure and the start of the cuben missle crisis.
International Soviet cosmonaut Yrui Gagarin becomes the first human in outer space.
Domestic John F. Kennedy is elected 35th President of the United States.
International Francis Gary Power's U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviets almost causing war.
International Seventeen African Countries gain their Independance
Domestic Almost 90% of Americans had a T.V.
Domestic Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states in the United States.
International The new leader of cuba Fidel Castrio comes into power this is important because he will be the result of the Cuban Missle Crisis and will work with the Soviets.
Domestic NASA the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is establish as part of the space race.
International Russia launches Sputnik and started the space race.
International A small uprising of hungry forces revolted against the communism that was taking over the country, Russia soon sent troops in and crushed the oppisition. This is a big deal because...
International The United States enter Vietnam in a very contriversal war back at home in the US.
Domestic The famous court case of Brown v. Board of Education desegrates schools in Topika.
International The USSR has oppened up its first small nucular power plant giving them greater nucular capibilities.
Domestic The famous court case Brown v. Board of Education desegrated Topika and soon the rest of the United States
International The French are defeated at Vietnam this is important because it will stage the battle for our next big war.
Domestic Senator Joseph McCarthy alleges Communist involvement in U.S. Army
Domestic Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are executed on counts of espionge eventhough many people plea to keep them alive.
International The two sides in the Korean War aggrie on a cease fire giving the United States hope.
Domestic U.S. explodes first hydrogen bomb
Domestic Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected 34th presedent of the United States
Domestic Disc Jockey Alan Freed is the first to use the term Rock n' Roll on the air.
International The United States sends troops to Korea in an attempt at containment
International As a result of sending toops over to Korea the Korean war begins.
International China is taken over by a wave of communism when the communist leader Mao Zedong promises land reform and to educate the pesents.
International The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO is a treaty agrement between mostly Europen countries that aggrie to defend eachother against communism
International Nato occupied West Berlin was blocked off by the Soviet Union who would not allow food to be brought in, in response to this the United States started flying over west berlin and d...
Domestic Herry S. Truman Is Elected The 33rd President
Domestic Jackie Robinson intergrates major league baseball.
Domestic The Baby Boom begins on acount of all the returning soliders.
International Winston Churchill gives his speech about the Iron Curtain and about how the Soviet Union is taking over Eastern Europe.
International The United Nations goal is to keep peace in the world this is ironic however due to the fact that the Soviet Union is taking over land and America is soon to be in a cold war with ...
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