The Cold War, New Frontier, & Great Society

The Cold War Begins (1945-1954) The Cold War Museum (1945-1991) The United Nations (formed in 1945) The Nuremburg Trials (1945-1946) The Marshall Plan (began in 1947) The Berlin Airlift (1948-1949) The Berlin Airlift (1948-1949) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, formed in 1949) Fifties Web (pop culture) The Baby Boom The Korean War (1950-1953) The Korean War (1950-1953) <>The Rosenbergs (executed in 1951) NASA (created in 1958) The Hollywood Blacklist Senator Joe McCarthy (1909-1957)

The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1969) Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement National Civil Rights Museum Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) The Montgomary Bus Boycott (December 1, 1955) Little Rock Central High School (September 1957) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE founded in 1942 but did its most famous work in the 1960s) The Freedom Rides (began Spring 1961) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) Malcolm X (1925-1965) The Sixties (1960-1969) The Sixties Project (includes primary sources) Bay of Pigs Invasion April 17, 1961) The Berlin Wall (construction began in August 1961) The Cuban Missle Crisis (1962, includes documents) The Cuban Missle Crisis (1962) Collective Memories of the Cuban Missle Crisis (1962) The Kennedy Assassination (1963) Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) National Organization for Women (founded in 1966) The Summer of Love (1967) Miranda v. Arizona (1968) The 1968 Democratic National Convention The First Moon Landing (July 20, 1969) The First Moon Landing (July 20, 1969) Woodstock (August 15-18, 1969)

* Voice of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. (1963) "I have a Dream" Speech*