1955-1975

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • McCarthy accuses many public figures of communism

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Eisenhower reelected President

  • School integration begins

  • First American satellite is launched

  • Alaska becomes 49th state

  • Hawaii becomes 50th state

  • John F Kennedy becomes President

  • Bay of Pigs

  • Freedom Riders

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream" speach

  • Kennedy is assassinated. Johnson becomes President

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Johnson is reelected

  • Voters Rights Act

  • Mirana v. Arizona

  • 25th Amendment passes

  • Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

  • Nixon becomes President

  • 26th Amendment passes

  • US and Soviet Union sign SALT

  • Nixon reelected

  • Nixon's VP resigns

  • Nixon resigns after impeachment recommended

  • South Vietnam surrenders to the North