1960's

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    1960's

  • JFK wins Presidency

    JFK wins Presidency
    Defeats Nixon in the 1960 presidential election

  • Kennedy Innagurated

  • JFK creates Peace Corps

  • US Steel Hikes Prices

    Steel companies hike steel prices, this effects teh whole economy adn JFK is not very happy about it.

  • Cuban Missile Crisus

  • National Gurad Desegregates Ole Miss

    JFK authroizes the National Guard to de-segregate the University of Mississippi to follow the Civil Rights Act.

  • March on Washington

    MLK Jr gives his I have a dream speech.

  • Kennedy is Assassinated

  • Lyndon B Johnson takes over as President

    After President Kennedy is assinated, LBJ is sworn into office as President.

  • Lyndon B Johnson declares "war on poverty"

    programs aimed to reduce unemployment, reduce poverty rates and increase job creation adn education.

  • Johnson Proclaims "Great Society"

  • CIvil Rights Bill of 1964

    Outlaws segregation in public areas (schools, restaraunts, etc)

  • Berkely Free Speech Movment

    Hundreds of Students at Berkely College in California protest.

  • LBJ elected as President

    Johnson beats Goldwater for the win.

  • Man on the Moon

    As JFK promised

  • Nixon wins Presidency