American History from 1946 to 1989 By Ghost rider22 Feb 22, 1946 1946 Kennan's Long Telegram lays out Containment policy Jul 26, 1948 1948 Truman desegregates military Oct 1, 1949 1949 USSR gets atomic bomb, Chinese Communists Win; NATO formed Jun 25, 1950 The Korean War Begins 1950 Oct 15, 1951 1951 I Love Lucy Airs; First Color TV Nov 2, 1952 1952 US Tests H-Bomb Jul 27, 1953 1953 Korean War Armistice May 17, 1954 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ends school segregation Aug 28, 1955 Emmett Till murdered 1955 Dec 1, 1955 1955 Rosa Parks arrested 1956 1956 Bus Boycott successful; Interstate Highways Built; Elvis becomes popular Oct 4, 1957 1957 Soviets first in Space with Sputnik I Jul 29, 1958 1958 NASA Formed 1960 1960 JFK Elected; Greensboro sit-ins; SNCC founded Apr 17, 1961 1961 Failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba Oct 16, 1962 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Aug 28, 1963 March on Washington Aug 28, 1963 "I Have a Dream Speech" Nov 22, 1963 JFK assassinated Jul 2, 1964 The Civil Rights Bill Passed Nov 3, 1964 LBJ Elected 1965 1965 Malcom X Assassinated; Selma Marches; The Voting Rights Bill Passed Jun 30, 1966 National Organization for Women founded Oct 15, 1966 Black Panther Party formed 1967 1967 Summer of Love, San Francisco 1968 1968 Nixon Elected; Tet Offensive in Vietnam; MLK Jr. Assassinated 1969 1969 Woodstock Concert; Stonewall Riots; Man on the Moon May 4, 1970 1970 Kent State Shootings 1972 1972 Nixon Re-elected; Nixon visits China; Watergate scandal begins; Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in schools 1973 1973 Roe vs. Wade legalizes abortion; US withdraws from Vietnam; Arab Oil Embargo cause gas prices to soar in US 1974 1974 Nixon faced with Impeachment, Resigns, Ford becomes president and pardons Nixon Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Ends Nov 2, 1976 Jimmy Carter elected president Nov 27, 1978 Harvey Milk Assassinated Nov 4, 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis 1980 Beginning of HIV epidemic in US Nov 4, 1980 Ronald Reagan elected president Nov 6, 1984 Ronald Reagan Re-Elected 1986 Scandal of Iran Contra Affair breaks 1988 George Bush Sr elected president 1989 End of the Cold War Dec 26, 1991 The Fall of Soviet Union
