1955 - 1975

By janetfernando
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    1955 - 1975

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Disneyland opens at Anaheim, California

  • Vietnam War Begins

  • Montgomery bus boycott

  • Federal Aid Highway Act

  • "In God We Trust" adopted as national motto

  • Eisenhower Re-elected

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • Soviets launch Sputnik; "space race" begins

  • NASA founded

  • Alaska granted statehood

  • Hawaii granted statehood

  • Greensboro sit-ins

  • U-2 incident

  • Civil Rights Act of 1960

  • John F. Kennedy (35th President)

  • 23rd Ammendment

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Peace Corps Established

  • John Glenn orbits the Earth in Friendship 7

  • Marilyn Monroe Dies

  • Trade Expansion Act

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

  • March on Washington; Martin Luther King, Jr. "I Have a Dream" speech

  • Community Mental Health Act

  • John F. Kennedy Assassination

  • Lyndon Johnson (36th President

  • Panama Canal Zone riots

  • 24th Amendment

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

  • Lyndon Johnson Elected Full Term

  • Malcolm X Assassinated

  • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

  • Medicaid and Medicare enacted

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Watts riots

  • Higher Education Act of 1965

  • National Organization for Women Founded

  • The first Super Bowl is played

  • 25th Amendment

  • United States Department of Transportation Founded

  • American Samoa becomes self-governing under a new constitution

  • Detroit race riot

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

  • Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated

  • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

  • Apollo 8 Launched

  • Richard Nixon (37th President)

  • Stonewall riots

  • Chappaquiddick incident

  • Apollo 11 Mission

  • Sesame Street premieres

  • Vietnamization Begins

  • The first Earth Day

  • Ken State Shooting

  • Jackson State Shooting

  • 26th Amendment

  • OSHA Founded

  • Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

  • Watergate scandal

  • Nixon Re-elected

  • Apollo 17 Launched

  • The Paris Peace Accords ends direct U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

  • Skylab is launched as the USA's first space station.

  • 1974 Super Outbreak, the second-largest series of tornadoes in history

  • The House Judiciary Committee votes to impeach the President

  • Nixon Resigns

  • Gerald Ford (38th President)

  • Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

  • Microsoft Corporation Founded

  • Vietnam War Ends

  • Apollo–Soyuz Test Project Lanuched

  • Ford 1st assassination attempt

  • Ford 2nd assassination attempt

  • SNL Premier