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End of World War Two
The United States and the Soviet Union defeated Germany to end the second world war. After the war was over, the U.S. and Soviet Union were looked at as superpowers, along side as minor superpowers was Great Britian -
Brown v. Board of Education
Segregation of white and Negro children in the public schools of a State solely on the basis of race, pursuant to state laws permitting or requiring such segregation, denies to Negro children the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment -
Rosa Parks Incident
United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama and was arrested by nearest police in the city. And so triggered the national Civil Rights movement -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
In Montgomery, Alabama all blacks decided to boycott the bus system due to its racially segregated rules system. Started when Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man, and ended when the Supreme Court case Browder v. Gayle took effect and the Montgomery and Alabama laws requiring segregated buses were declared to be unconstitutional. -
Little Rock Nine Incident
The Arkansas National Guard, under the order of Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus, blocked nine black students from entering Little Rock Central High School. -
Sputnik Launched
First man made satellite, constructed by the Soviet Union, to be launched into space and to orbit the earth. -
U-2 Incident
unarmed reconnaissance plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers who was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, was shot down by Soviet military authorities 1,200 miles inside the Soviet Union near Sverdlovsk. In the following days, Nikita Khru-shchev exploited the incident to sabotage the summit meeting between the Heads of Government of the United States, Soviet Union, France, and the United Kingdom, which began in Paris on May 16. -
Bay of Pigs
The location of a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in 1961. The invaders, numbering about fourteen hundred, had left after the Cuban Revolution and returned to overthrow the new Cuban leader, Fidel Castro; they were trained and equipped by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. The operation was a disaster for the invaders, most of whom were killed or taken prisoner. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. The Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, placed Soviet military missiles in Cuba.President John F. Kennedy of the U.S. set up a naval blockade of Cuba and insisted that Khrushchev remove the missiles. And Khrushchev did. -
Letter From Birmingham Jail
Letter that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in the Birminghsam city jail after he was arrested. This letter that King wrote was to some of his fellow Clergymen, who criticised his present activities of protest and rebellions, was about the statement they said. The statement said that his recent activities with protest were, "Unwise and Untimely," so King wrote this letter to comment his feelings about the remarks. -
March on Washington
March in Washington, D.C. that was centered on jobs, freedom, and support of civil and economical rights for African Americans.At this Political rally, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his most famous, "I Have a Dream," speech on the footsteps of the Lincoln Memorial.
