1955-1975

By sjdh02

  • Warsaw Pact

  • Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat

  • "In God We Trust" Adopted as National Motto

  • Election of 1956

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower Re-elected, Vice President Richard Nixon Re-elected

  • Little Rock, Arkansas Schools Desegregated

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • Sputnik 1 Launched

  • NASA Formed

  • Cuban Revolution Concludes

  • Alaska Admitted to the Union

  • Hawaii Admitted to the Union

  • Civil Rights Act of 1960

  • Election of 1960

    John F. Kennedy elected as President, Lyndon B. Johnson elected as Vice President.

  • United States Breaks Relations with Cuba

  • 23rd Amendment Ratified

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Period: to

    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Atomic Test Ban Treaty

  • President Kennedy Assassinated, Succeeded by Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Election of 1964

    Lyndon B. Johnson elected for full term, Hubert H. Humphrey elected Vice President

  • 24th Amendment Ratified

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • 25th Amendment Ratified

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Signed

  • Election of 1968

    Richard Nixon elected president, Spiro T. Agnew elected Vice President

  • Beginning of Vietnamization

  • Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Walk on the Moon During the Apollo 11 Mission

  • United States Bombs Cambodia and Laos

  • 26th Amendment Ratified

  • Period: to

    Watergate Scandal

  • Election of 1972

    Richard Nixon re-elected as President, Spiro T. Agnew re-elected as Vice President

  • Roe v. Wade

  • Paris Peace Accords

    End of direct US military involvement in Vietnam.

  • Skylab Launched

  • House Judiciary Committee Votes to Impeach President Nixon

  • Richard Nixon Resigns

  • Vietnam War Ends