40s
The nations were organized into two opposing military alliances, Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised. Marked by significant action against civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it was the deadliest conflict in human history,with over seventy million casualties.The United Nations was established to foster international cooperation and prevent future conflicts.
World War II
A war between North Korea and South Korea with the US joining later. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended unofficially on 27 July 1953 in an armistice.
Korean War
The debate between presidential candidates Kennedy and Nixon is broadcast nationally on all TV networks (only three networks exist in 1960), and on network radio. It is was the first of its kind.
First Televised Presidential Debate
On May 4, 1970 four students from this university in Ohio were killed and nine wounded by National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War spreading into Cambodia.
Kent State University
40s - You can now heat up your food with this invention.
The Microwave Oven
The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war that the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia, against Britain and the Netherlands, as well as the U.S. in the Philippines.
Pearl Harbor
Upheld the national origins quota system, reinforcing the controversial system of immigrant selection.
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
This person is elected as presidency in the tightest election since 1884.
John F. Kennedy
The Senate approves this Constitutional Amendment that would lower the voting age from 21 to 18. House approval came on March 23. It was ratified by the states by June 30 and received certification by President Richard M. Nixon on July 5.
The 26th Amendment
Libya
He was elected more than two presidential terms. He died in office of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly before WWII ended.
Franklin D Roosevelt
The 1952 United States presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952. This Republican won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson, ending a string of Democratic Party wins that stretched back to 1932.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Soviet Union fires a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb, the biggest explosion in history.
Hydrogen Bomb
Four men are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office building in Washington, D.C.
The Watergate Scandal
60s- The U.S. Senate confirms him to the become first African American to sit on the U.S. supreme court.
Thurgood Marshall
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings.
U.S Drops Atomic Bombs on Japan
Also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
Vietnam War
Photos by U.S. spy planes reveal the Soviets are positioning camouflaged nuclear missiles in Cuba. Kennedy orders a naval blockade of Cuba to prevent delivery of more missiles. The world holds its breath during a week of tense negotiations to resolve the standoff. The crisis ends when Russia agrees to remove the Cuban missiles, in exchange for the U.S. removing similar missiles from Turkey.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The United States Supreme Court ruling that a woman can not be prevented by a state in having an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy.
Roe vs. Wade
70s- The British band breaks up!
The Beatles
Founded in 1945 after WWII to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions.
The United Nations
A decision from U.S. Supreme Court on May 17, 1954 from the historic The Brown v. Board of Education trial.
Desegregation
This US President is shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon Johnson is quick sworn in as President.
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
On, July 27, 1974 the first of three of theses articles against President Richard M. Nixon is recommended in a 27-11 vote of the House Judiciary Committee, charging that Nixon had been part of a criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Watergate affair.
Articles of Impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon
What is the third plant from the sun?
Earth