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The Cold War in the Eisenhower era
Eisenhower's presidency was dominated by the Cold War, the prolonged confrontation with the Soviet Union which had begun during Truman's term of office. When Joseph Stalin died, Eisenhower sought to extend an olive branch to the new Soviet regime in his "Chance for Peace speech", but continuing turmoil in Moscow prevented a meaningful response and the Cold War deepened. -
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Brown vs Board of Education in the Eisenhower era
The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. The decision overturnd the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that sanctioned "separate but equal" segregation of the race was unequal." It was a victory for NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall. This was going on while Eisenhower was in office. -
Rosa Parks
NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, As a response to her arrest, the Montgomery black community launched a bus boycott, which lasted for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated Dec. 21, 1956. -
Emmett Till Case
Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till was visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were arrested for the murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. They later boast of the murder in a magazine interview. The case becomes a huge part of the civil rights movement. -
#34 Dwight D Eisenhower
Eisenhower passed the Federal Highway Act of 1956. This gave birth to highways. It provided for a 65,000-km national system of interstate highways to be built over 13 years, with the federal government paying for 90 percent, or $24.8 billion. -
Little Rock 9
When Little Rock Central High School was ordered to desegregate in the Fall of 1957, many local whites were very upset. The Little Rock Nine was a group of six girls and three boys that were selected to attend the high school as the first black students. President Eisenhower ordered 1,000 paratroopers and 10,000 National Guardsmen to Little Rock and on September 25, 1957 -
The space race in the Johnson era
the space race began when the Soviets launched sputnik. Not many realize that Johnson was the main reason for the start and stop of the space race. -
#34 Dwight D Eisenhower
On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signd an act that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). This bill pushed the USA to leadership in the space age. This bill was a result of The Soviet Union launching Sputnik I and Sputnik II. -
SNCC
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded at Shaw University, providing young blacks with a place in the civil rights movement. SNCC later grows into a more radical organization, especially under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael (1966–1967). -
#35 John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy became the first catholic president of the United States of America. He also was the first president who used the television to aid in his win to office. -
The Bay of Pigs in the Kennedy era
The U.S. government distrusted Castro and was wary of his relationship with Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union. Before his inauguration, John F. Kennedy was briefed on a plan by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) developed during the Eisenhower administration to train Cuban exiles for an invasion of their homeland. This was called the Bay of Pigs invasion -
The Berlin wall in the Kennedy era
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic that seperated West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.The barrier was originally made ob barbed wire then later replaced by concrete. -
Vietnam war starts
President Kennedy sent American forces into South Vietnam to aid the Saigon government against Communist insurgents directed by the communist government of North Vietnam. Over the next several years, American forces arrived in greater numbers, and the role of the U.S. forces would change from a support role to heavy combat against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces. The war ended 13 years later, when North Vietnamese forces took the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon in april of 1975. -
#35 John F. Kenedy
Kennedy tried to get more Blacks registered to vote. He thought that if Blacks could vote, they could change segregated laws and the people who led them. More government runners would then help and be nicer towards Blacks because they would want to recieve the black vote. -
Death of Medgar Evers
Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murdered outside his home. Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials resulting in hung juries. Thirty years later he is convicted for murdering Evers. -
I have a dream
200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. This is the most widely known civil rights speech ever. -
#36 Lyndon B Johnson
President Lyndon B. Johnson was president from November 22, 1963 to Jan 20, 1969. He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a bill that changed the face of America. It opened all public accommodations — hotels, restaurants, swimming pools — to all Americans regardless of race or religion.
The bill also ended legal discrimination in employment on the basis of race or sex, and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce the law. LBJ said this was his greatest accomplishment. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The biggest civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibitsed discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provided the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation -
#36 Lyndon B Johnson
Johnson launched a "War on Poverty" by signing the Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Office of Economic Opportunity. This act resulted in voting rights, funding for education, programs for urban renewal, Medicare, crime prevention and consumer protection. -
Malcom x assination
Malcolm X, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity ,was shot to death. It is believed the assailants are members of the Black Muslim faith, which Malcolm had recently abandoned in favor of orthodox Islam or a person fearful of black power -
medicare and medicade in the Johnson era
President Johnson's first legislative message to the 89th Congress, Advancing the Nation's Health, detailed a program including hospital insurance for the elderly under Social Security and health care for needy children. -
Tet Offensive
On January 31, 1968, 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive , a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. The leader of the Communist People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), planned the offensive attack in order to light rebellion in the S vietnamese and to push the Americans away. -
First Battle of Saigon
The Battle of Saigon was a battle fought between attacking Viet Cong battalions and the combined defending force of US troops and the South Vietnamese Army. Being part of the Tet Offensive, it took place in the city of Saigon, from January 31 to March 7, 1968. The Battle of Saigon was ignited by communist forces. -
MLK shot
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot . King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot. King was immediately taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. James Earl Ray was convicted. -
Neil Armstrong walks on moon in the Nixon era
Neil armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. He and Buzz Aldrin were both apart of the Apollo 11 mission. Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon -
the 26th amendment in the Nixon era
The 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, allowing millions of young people to participate and have a powerful voice in shaping their political future.The 26th Amendment was passed faster than any Constitutional amendment in history, but that doesn't mean it was an easy process. -
#37 Richard Nixon
President Nixonmade his historic visit to China on Fe b21, 1972. For eight days, American television audiences tuned in to a spectacular mages from China, the first they had seen in more than twenty years. This meeting made other countries, such as the Soviet Union, very nervous. On the president's instructions, the American press corps strongly favored television over print journalists, as the medium would better -
#37 Richard Nixon
The Watergate scandal occured when burglers of Nixon's presidental campaign committee broke into the Watergate hotel in order to gain information on the democratc plan to stop his re-election. Scandal broke when a burgler was paid $25,000 from Nixon's campaign funds. -
#38 Gerald R. Ford
Gerald Ford was the first and only not elected President (or vice president) by the American public.Ford became President in 1974 only after Richard Nixon and his Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned. As President, Ford confronted a failing economy. -
#38 Gerald R. Ford
Ford issued Proclamation 4311, which gave Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he may have committed against the United States while President. This was done to get the " nightmare overwith". -
Battle of Xuan Loc in Ford era
The final battle of the Vietnam War was the Battle of Xuan Loc. It was officially the last battle of the Vietnam War beginning on April 9, 1975 and ending on April 20, 1975, lasting twelve days. The battle took place in Xuan Loc, Dong Nai Province. The Vietnam Republic Army then attempted to prevent the People's Army of Vietnam divisions from over running the town. -
Vietnam war ends in Ford era
on January 27, 1973, The Paris Peace Accords are signed by the U.S., North Vietnam, South Vietnam and the Viet Cong. Under the terms, the U.S. agreed to immediately halt all military activities and withdraw all remaining military personnel within 60 days. On April 30, 1975, the last Americans, ten Marines from the embassy, depart Saigon, concluding the U.S. presence in Vietnam.
