1945-2000 event

The United States created the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during WW2. The two bombings killed 129,000–226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of armed conflict. Without the bombs dropped the war would have lasted longer and we might still have tension between Japan.

Its greater sophistication over pure fission weapons may afford it vastly greater destructive power than first-generation atomic bombs. Without the creation of the Hydrogen bomb the military power would not be as great.

The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc satellite states during the cold war. Without the Warsaw pact there could have been more wars and less restrictions in military combat.

Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie when he was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald firing in ambush from a nearby building. The assassination changed the changed 20th century for the bad because it shows that any president can be harmed easily.

Known as the the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 1964 voter registration drive sponsored by civil rights organizations including the Congress on Racial Equality. Without the Mississippi Summer Project the @0th century wanted be as developed in equality as today.

American activist organization (founded 1966) that promotes equal rights for women. It is the largest feminist group in the United States, with some 500,000 members in the early 21st century. Changed the equality between men and women in the 20th century.

The party's original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. Changed the 20th century by ensuring peace to everyone and not discriminating color.

At night, 12th Street in Detroit was a hot spot of inner-city nightlife, both legal and illegal. At the corner of 12th St. and Clair mount, William Scott operated a “blind pig” - looted everything. Important because the 20th century for giving people of color a bad reputation.

is assassination led to an outpouring of anger among black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. Important because the 20th century for the better and helped give African Americans equality.

American astronauts Neil Armstrong (1930-2012) and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin (1930-) became the first humans ever to land on the moon. Important because the moon landing improved the U.S space technology and helped grow the economy of the 20th century.