On November 1, 1952, the United States won the race bomb when it exploded the first H bomb.

was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.

In 1953, Jonas Salk invented the polio vaccine which relived people of the deadly disease polio. This is important because there were more than 27000 cases of polio and over 6000 deaths in the United States.

The American's advantage lasted less than a year. In August of 1953, the Soviets exploded their own thermonuclear bomb.

The Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

President Eisenhower issued a warning in January 1957 which stated that the US would defend the middle east against an attack by any communist country.

On September 4, 1957, Governor Orval Faubus called the Arkansas National Guard to black all black students from entering into central high school.

The election was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democrat United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard Nixon

Kennedy implements a naval quarantine of Cuba, blocking Soviet ships from reaching the island. A US patrol plane flies over a Soviet freighter.

Ronald Reagan eventually lost the nomination to incumbent President Gerald Ford at the 1976 Republican National Convention.