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Brown vs. Board of Education.
Supreme Court strikes down separate but equal. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist, refused to give her seat to a white person. Martin Luther King Jr. rises to prominence. -
Eisenhower re-elected
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Civil Rights Movement
Non-violent protests for civil rights. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
Countries could ask US for financial help if being threatened with aggression from another country. -
Sputnik
Soviets launch Sputnik and beat Americans in Space Race. -
1st US Satellite
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NASA
In response to Russian space travel. -
Protest against segregation
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John F Kennedy elected
1st Catholic President/Youngest president. "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." -
23rd Amendment
District of Columbia has the right to vote for President -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
CIA trained Cubans. April 17, 1961, landed in Cuba and crushed. -
Vietnam War
Troops committed, 60,000 American soldier lives lost, 3.3 million Vietnamese have died. -
Peace Corp
Volunteer program run by the US government, started by President Kennedy. -
US enters Space Race
Project Mercury, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Project Apollo,Launch of Apollo - 1968 -
Berlin Crisis/Berlin Wall
Built to keep East Berliners from escaping - built in 24 hours - 96 miles of barb wire. 1962 - second fence. 1975 - the permanent wall built. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
Soviet Arms build-up on Cuba. Demanded to dismantle of Missle bases able to reach America. Blockade = act of aggression. October 28th - Soviets will be dismantled after Khrushchev and Kennedy talk. -
Civil Rights March on Washington
I Have a Dream Speech -
JFK assassinated
Johnson sworn in as President -
24th Amendment outlaws poll tax
Outlaw poll tax that prevents Blacks from voting. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Equal Opportunity Commission - Outlaw racial segregation in public places. -
War on Poverty
Legislation introduced by President Johnson to address the 19% unemployment. -
Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution to authorize Pres. Johnson to repel attacks against US armed forces by N. Vietnam. -
Voting Rights Acts of 1965
Outlaws literacy tests. -
Malcom X assassinated
Civil rights activist -
N.O.W. formed
Organization formed to help women in the workplace with equal pay and advancement. -
France withdraws from NATO
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Detroit Riot
One of the bloodiest riots sparked by a police raid but underlying causes conflict between black and police, unemployment, racial segregation. -
Martin Luther King assassinated
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TET offensive
North Vietnam offensive but was not a victory for tham. -
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Shot while campaigning for president. -
Richard Nixon elected as President
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Nixon and New Federalism
Transferring federal power back to the states. -
First Man on the Moon
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." -
Massacre at Kent State
Anti-war protest and National Guard conflict. Open fired on students. -
SALT Talks begin
Arms control talks between US and Soviet Union. -
EPA created
Environmental Protection Agency -
Nixon opens talks with China
Nixon open talks with closed country China about trade. -
Watergate
Spying on Democrats -
Nixon is re-elcted
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Cease Fire in Vietnam
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US forces withdrawal in Vietnam
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Spiro Agnew resigns
Federal tax evasion -
Nixon Resigns but pardoned by Ford
Nixon resigns amid the scandal of Watergate -
Vietnam falls