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Yalta Conference, major World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders—Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Premier Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union—which met at Yalta in Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany.

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Creation of the United Nations - Oct 24, 1945

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Creation of the United Nations - Oct 24, 1945

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The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Its purpose is to maintain international peace and security. The Security Council’s five permanent members are China, France, the Soviet Union (whose seat and membership were assumed by Russia in 1991), the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech - March 5, 1946

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Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech - March 5, 1946

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The former British prime minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech that declared that an Iron Curtain has descended across the European continent. He stressed that the US and Britain needed to act as guardians of peace and stability against Soviet communism. This speech increased the tension between the US and the Soviet Union.

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The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, sometimes known as Taft-Hartley after its supporters, overrode President Truman's veto to enact the Wagner Act's first significant revisions. The statute also prohibited unions from making political contributions and demanded affidavits from union executives stating they were not Communists, both of which have since been eliminated.

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President Truman signed the Economic Recovery Act of 1948, on April 3, 1948. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

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On 4 April 1949, the foreign ministers from 12 countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty at the Departmental Auditorium in Washington, D.C.: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom.

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The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin, which lay entirely inside Russian-occupied East Germany.  As the blockade started, some 2.5 million civilians had no access to food, medicine, fuel, electricity and other basic goods. Western powers began an airlift that lasted nearly a year and delivered vital supplies and relief to West Berlin.

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Communist Revolution in China - Oct  1, 1949

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Communist Revolution in China - Oct  1, 1949

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On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China. The communist victory created a radical shift in the Cold War. China became the largest socialist state by population, and a third force in the Cold War.

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The Korean War began on 25 June 1950 and ended on 27 July 1953. The war began when North Korean communists crossed the 38th parallel. After the signing of the armistice, they agreed that the country would remain divided.

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Cuban Revolution, armed uprising in Cuba that overthrew the government of Fulgencio Batista on January 1, 1959. The revolution’s leader, Fidel Castro, went on to rule Cuba from 1959 to 2008.

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A hydrogen bomb was detonated on the Pacific island of Eniwetok by the United States in 1952. In addition to destroying the island, the explosion produced a three-mile-wide mushroom cloud. A new phase in the weapons race began with the test's success.

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Brown v. Board of Education - May 17th, 1954

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Brown v. Board of Education - May 17th, 1954

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The Court ruled that the division of school children by race was unconstitutional. The Brown v. Board of Education trial is a groundbreaking decision by the US Supreme Court. The case ruled that a state law that barred whites and people of color from attending public schools in the 17 southern states at the time was illegal.

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Vietnam War - November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975

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Vietnam War - November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975

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The Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975, was a protracted battle between the governments of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States, and the communist government of North Vietnam and its partners in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong.

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Beginning in the late 1950s, space became another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and–by extension–its political-economic system. By landing on the moon, the United States effectively “won” the space race that had begun with Sputnik’s launch in 1957.

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In 1956, the Federal Highway Act was passed by Congress, funding $32 billion to construct 41,000 miles of interstate highways. Highways were crucial for the US military's broad transportation network and Americans' growing reliance on autos as a national defense.

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Suez Crisis is an international crisis in the Middle East, precipitated on July 26, 1956, when the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the Suez Canal. The canal had been owned by the Suez Canal Company, which was controlled by French and British interests. The Suez Crisis was provoked by an American and British decision not to finance Egypt’s construction of the Aswan High Dam, as they had promised, in response to Egypt’s growing ties with communist Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.

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Montgomery bus Boycott - December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956

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Montgomery bus Boycott - December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956

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African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted city buses as part of a civil rights demonstration in order to denounce segregated seating. The boycott, which ran from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, is recognized as the country's first significant anti-segregation protest.

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Sputnik I, a Soviet-built satellite, was first sent into orbit in October 1957. Sputnik II was launched a month after it. The two satellites' launches signaled the start of a high-stakes competition between the US and the USSR that had consequences for national security.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference - January 10-11, 1957

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference - January 10-11, 1957

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was created on January 10-11, 1957, when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in an effort to replicate the successful strategy and tactics of the recently concluded Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded under the National Aeronautics and Space Act. Promoting manned space flight was the agency's primary goal.

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Berlin crisis of 1961, Cold War conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning the status of the divided German city of Berlin. It culminated in the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961.

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Freedom Riders Began - January 12th, 1961

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Freedom Riders Began - January 12th, 1961

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In 1961, the freedom riders were civil rights activists who traveled to segregated Southern America on interstate buses.

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The purpose of that Berlin Wall was to prevent, and in particular hinder, those who call themselves the West German fascists from moving into East Germany undermining the Socialist state; however, it had primarily been aimed at reining in a mass defector movement between eastern and west.

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The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful April 1961 attack by US forces and southern Cuba by 1,400 US-trained Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro's revolutionary Cuban government. Since 1960, this invasion has been planned and funded by the United States government.

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Cuban Missile Crisis - October 16th to 29th, 1962

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Cuban Missile Crisis - October 16th to 29th, 1962

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The Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 14, 1962, when a US spy Lockheed U-2 photographed a Soviet SS-4 semi-intermediate-range ballistic missile base under construction in Cuba and a photo of a ship carrying parts to a construction site. This is about a confrontation that began while the film was being made between the USA and Soviet Union.

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Publication of the Feminine Mystique - February 19th, 1963

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Publication of the Feminine Mystique - February 19th, 1963

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Publication of the Feminine Mystique is a book written by Betty Friedan in 1963. It's a book that illustrates the liberal camp in the Second Generation Feminism movement.  Friedan's book has been credited with sparking the second wave of feminism, which has inspired many political and social activists, by focusing women's attention on the broad social context of their problems.

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On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It focuses on jobs and freedom and seeks to raise awareness of African Americans' continuing challenges and inequalities. Also, the Martin Luther King speech "I Have a Dream."

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Assassination of JFK - November 22, 1963

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Assassination of JFK - November 22, 1963

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Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union.

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was one of the landmark acts of civil rights legislation in the United States, outlawing major discrimination against women against race, ethnicity, national origin, and religious minorities. In schools, workplaces and facilities, this law stopped the application of separate registration requirements for voters and racial segregation.

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On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson ratified this statute. It prohibited the discriminatory voting practices implemented in several southern states following the Civil War, such as the requirement of passing literacy tests in order to cast a ballot.

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Creation of the United Farm Workers (UFW) - Aug 22, 1966

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Creation of the United Farm Workers (UFW) - Aug 22, 1966

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United Farm Workers, UFW, is a labor union founded in 1962 by the labor leaders and activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. In 1956, the union sponsored a strike by California grape pickers and a national boycott of California grapes, which gave farmworkers a higher minimum wage and other benefits. The union seeks to empower migrant farmworkers and to improve their wages and working conditions.

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On July 6, 1965, the 25th Amendment was ratified by Congress. By February 10, 1967, all the states had ratified the amendment, and President Lyndon Johnson certified it on February 23, 1967. The Vice President will take over if the President is removed from office, dies, or resigns.

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Prague Spring, brief period of economic and political liberalization in Czechoslovakia under Alexander Dubček that began in January 1968 and effectively ended on August 20, 1968, when Soviet forces invaded the country.

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In late January, 1968, during the lunar new year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault.

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The Stonewall Riot occurred on June 28, 1969, during a police crackdown on the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Greenwich Village, New York. On June 28, 1969, a group of gay people spontaneously staged a demonstration in Stonewall in response to a police raid on the site.  It began to start becasue of a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid

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“Red Power” occupation of Alcatraz - Nov 20, 1969

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“Red Power” occupation of Alcatraz - Nov 20, 1969

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The occupation of Alcatraz was from November 20, 1969, to June 11, 1971. 89 Native Americans took over and held Alcatraz island as an Indian island. They protested against the United States government's policies that took aboriginal land away from American Indians and aimed to destroy their cultures.

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The Watergate scandal was a political scandal involving the administration of president Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, which led to Nixon's resignation.  On June 17, 1972, Nixon was revealed following the arrest of five burglars at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C.

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Title IX of the Educational Amendments passed - June 23, 1972

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Title IX of the Educational Amendments passed - June 23, 1972

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Title IX of the Civil Rights Act was signed into law on June 23, 1972 by President Richard M. Title IX provides: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

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On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court struck down Texas' criminal ban on abortion and held that the right to abortion is a “fundamental right".  Roe held the specific guarantee of “liberty” in the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which protects individual privacy, includes the right to abortion prior to fetal viability.

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Resignation of Richard Nixon - August 9, 1974

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Resignation of Richard Nixon - August 9, 1974

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Nixon announced the resignation of his presidency in response to the Watergate scandal during a speech at the White House from August 8th, 1974.