Interactive Timeline – 1945-1975

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr U.S. and Soviet troops race toward Berlin

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul–Aug Potsdam Conference sets stage for Cold War

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Sep Ho Chi Minh declares independence of Democratic Republic of Vietnam

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Dec International Monetary Fund (IMF) formally created to aid global economic stability and prevent another world war

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul Dramatic demonstrations of new atomic bombs in Bikini Atoll in Pacific cause global fallout concern

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul Treaty of Manila grants independence to Philippines

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Dec War begins between France and the Vietminh

correct incorrect Apr President Eisenhower decides against American military operation to relieve French at Dien Bien Phu

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May French defeated at Battle of Dien Bien Phu

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Mexican government works with United States to repatriate migrant workers under "Operation Wetback"

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North and South

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct The Algerian War for Independence begins

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov Hungary revolts against Soviet rule

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Britain, France, and Israel launch military attacks against Egypt

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Dec Britain and France withdraw troops from Suez

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul Egypt nationalizes Suez Canal

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jul International Geophysical Year begins hopeful cooperation between 67 countries on range of science and technology development

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Soviets successfully launch Sputnik

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Dec Creation of National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam (the Viet Cong)

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May–Jun Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jun Kennedy gives "ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Berlin

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov 1–2 Military coup deposes President Ngo Dinh Diem

correct incorrect Aug Congress adopts Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Feb Beatles land at JFK International Airport launching "British Invasion"

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr Malcolm X travels to Middle East and Mecca

correct incorrect Mar First anti-Vietnam teach-in at University of Michigan

correct incorrect Jul President Johnson makes final decision to Americanize the Vietnam War

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution begins in China

correct incorrect Oct Over 100,000 people join antiwar march on Washington

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Jean-Paul Sartre organizes International War Crimes Tribunal to judge U.S. conduct in Vietnam

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Publication of Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber's The American Challenge

correct incorrect Jan Tet Offensive begins

correct incorrect Mar My Lai Massacre

correct incorrect Mar Johnson announces he will not seek Democratic Party presidential nomination

correct incorrect Apr Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated

correct incorrect Apr Student demonstrations at Columbia University

correct incorrect Jun Robert F. Kennedy assassinated

correct incorrect Aug Demonstrations at Democratic National Convention in Chicago

correct incorrect Nov Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace for presidency

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jan–Aug Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Student uprising in Paris leads to crippling nationwide general strike

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Mexican troops kill over 1,000 young people protesting Olympic Games in Mexico City

correct incorrect Nov American Indian Movement occupies Alcatraz

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar Vietnamization begins

correct incorrect May National Guard kills four protesters at Kent State University

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr U.S. and South Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia

correct incorrect Feb Nixon visits the PRC

correct incorrect Jun Publication of the Pentagon Papers

correct incorrect Jul Henry Kissinger secretly visits the People's Republic of China

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jan–Apr U.S. and South Vietnamese invasion of Laos ends in failure

correct incorrect Jun Watergate break-in that eventually leads to Nixon's resignation

correct incorrect Nov Nixon reelected in landslide

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Feb Nixon makes landmark trip to China toasting Chairman Mao

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Nixon visits Soviet Union, furthering détente between the world's two nuclear superpowers; two leaders sign SALT I nuclear arms limitations

correct incorrect May Senate Watergate hearings begin

correct incorrect Oct Spiro Agnew resigns as vice president

correct incorrect Dec Gerald R. Ford becomes vice president

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Yom Kippur War erupts across Middle East

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct–Mar Mideast Arab oil embargo against United States and other supporters of Israel; sharp international economic recession follows

correct incorrect Jul House Judiciary Committee approves three articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon

correct incorrect Aug Nixon resigns as president

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Mar North Vietnamese and NLF forces capture Da Nang

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr Communist forces win Vietnam War