| 1. Korean War begins - 1950
...stop the spread of communism. |
| 2. Brown v. Board of Ed. - 1954
...segregated public schools illegal. |
| 3. Sputnik in space - 1957
...launched by Russia. |
| 4. Cuban missile crisis - 1962
...while, nuclear war seemed... |
| 5. March on Washington - 1963
..."I Have a Dream" speech. |
| 6. Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 1964
It outlawed discrimination in... |
| 7. First moon landing - 1969
...it united all Americans... |
| 8. Woodstock Music Fair - 1969
...of the hippie movement. |
| 9. Nixon resigns - 1974
...at the Watergate office building. |
| 10. S. Vietnam falls - 1975
...about two years earlier. |
| 11. IBM PC introduced - 1981
...revolutionized business offices. |
| 12. AIDS officially identified - 1981/82
(named in 1982) ...body's immune
system. |
| 13. Berlin Wall falls - 1989
...the Cold War was... |
| 14. Desert Storm War - 1991
...to free Kuwait from occupation... |
| 15. Russia rejects communism - 1991
...just not working. |
| 16. Welfare reform passes - 1997
...from both political parties. |
| 17. World Trade Center Destroyed - 2001
...the Pentagon building. |
| 18. Iraq War - 2003
...Saddam Hussein overthrown... |
