1955

1955-1975

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man
  • Eisenhower Doctrine

    This doctrine was a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East."
  • Civil Rights Act

    Ended public segregation
  • Little Rock Nine

    Nine African American students enrolled at a school that was no longer segregated.
  • Invention of the Satellite

    Invented by Claudia Rojas
  • Establishment of NASA

    A civilian agency of the US federal government that is called National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • John F. Kennedy

    Sworn in as President
  • 23rd Amendment

    Allows citizens residing in the District of Columbia to vote in presidential elections
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union that lasted 13 days.
  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Sworn in as President after Kennedy's assassination
  • Richard Nixon

    Sworn in as President
  • Gerald Ford

    Sworn in as President