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Red scare
Joseph McCarthy waved a sheet of paper saying he had 201 names of communists within the US government, this of course was false, but it just fueled the on going red scare -
Sarah Keys vs. Carolina coach company
Sarah Keys, like rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white customer, landed her in jail, this trial led to the ruling that the "separate but equal" was unconstitutional to the interstate commerce commission -
Civil rights act of 1957
first measure taken since the reconstruction period -
Sputnik was sent to space
The soviets won the space race and sent the ship sputnik into space before the Americans got the chance to -
NASA is created
National Aeronautics and space administration to help with the space race -
1960 presidential election
President Kennedy became the first catholic president -
James Meredith enrollment at the University of Mississippi
He was the first African American to enroll at this school -
The president was assassinated
President Kennedy was assassinated -
1964 civil rights act
The federal government finally put into the effects the brown ruling 10 years after it was finished. -
Voting rights act
This act abolished voting discrimination in federal, state, and local elections -
Martin Luther King jr was killed
He was assassinated in Memphis while supporting a strike for sanitation workers -
Watergate scandal
A break in of the Watergate hotel that wiretapped to obtain the names of the committees financial supporters -
Paris peace accords
North and South Vietnam signed the Paris peace accord to to end the US force commitment to the Vietnam war