The US

New Frontiers
! 1948 NATO(North Atlantic Treaty
Organization) formed, cold war begins.
! 1950 The Korean war begins
! 1953 The Korean war ends.
! 1954 The Supreme Court rules that
separate but equal is unconstitutional.
! 1955 Blacks boycott buses in Montgomery.
! 1957 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik,
the first satellite.
! 1963 Martin Luther King Jr., leads the
March on Washington for African
American civil rights.
! 1962 Missile crisis
! 1963 Kennedy assassinated.
! 1965- Vietnam war begins-1975 The
Vietnam war ends. Human cost: 3 to 4
million Vietnamese people from both sides
died, 1,5 to 2 million Laotians and
Cambodians and 58,159 U.S soldiers.
! 1969 American astronaut, Neil Armstrong,
becomes the first person to walk on the
moon.
! 1981 Sandra Day OConnor becomes the
first female Supreme Court Justice.
! 1989 The Berlin Wall falls.
! 1989-1991 The U.S.S.R. Dissolves into
republics, bringing an end to the cold war.
! 1991 The World Wide Web is introduced.
! 1991 Gulf war.
! 2001 Terrorist attack on the US.
! 2003 Iraq war
! 2008-2009 Global financial crisis and
recession.
! 2009 Barack Obama becomes the first
African American president of the US.