The U.S. history timeline 1955-1975

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    The Cuban revolution

  • McDonald's was founded in SAN Bernardino, California

  • The Warsaw Pact was formed

  • Disneyland opens in California

  • Emmett Till was killed

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    Vietnam War

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott was called after Rosa Parks refused to obey orders from Montgomery Bus driver James Fred Blake to give up her seat to a white passenger

  • In God We Trust became America's national motto

  • The Eisenhower Doctrine

    The Eisenhower Doctrine proposed by Dwight Eisenhower called for economic or military assistance from the United States if a middle Eastern country is invaded by another country

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • Little Rock Nine

    Little Rock Nine. President Eisenhower ordered the army's 101st Airborne Division to little Rock to escort black students into the school

  • The Soviet Sputnik 1 satellite is launched, and the space race begins

  • The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was established

  • National Defense Education Act

  • Alaska became the 49th state

  • Hawaii became the 50th state

  • A U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1960

  • The Southern Vietnamese National Liberation Front was formed

  • Alliance for Progress

  • The United States launched "special warfare" in southern Vietnam.

  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States

  • Peace Corps

  • The Twenty-third Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America was passed, giving citizens of the District of Columbia the right to vote for president and vice President of the United States.

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    The Bay of Pigs invasion

    The Bay of Pigs invasion, which eventually led to the severing of diplomatic relations with Cuba

  • Mercury Redstone 3 launches

    Mercury Redstone 3 launches, and Alan Shepard becomes the second astronaut in human history to go into space aboard Freedom 7.
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    The third Berlin crisis.

    The third Berlin crisis. The Soviets issued an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of all armed forces from Berlin, including western armed forces in West Berlin. This eventually led to the construction of the Berlin Wall.

  • Trade Expansion Act

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    Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964.

    Civil Rights Act of 1964. Discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex or country of origin has been outlawed.

  • Partial Test Ban Treaty

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave the I Have a Dream speech in downtown Washington

  • President Kennedy was shot in Dallas. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded as 36th president of the United States.

  • The 24th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America was passed.

    The 24th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America was passed. The 24th Amendment forbade congress or any state from restricting citizens' right to vote based on whether they paid taxes.

  • Gulf of Tonkin incident.

    Gulf of Tonkin incident. The War escalated as the United States began a massive strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam and a large number of American soldiers and weapons entered south Vietnam

  • The Economic Opportunity Act

  • The War escalated as the United States began a massive strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

  • United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

  • Higher Education Act of 1965

  • National Organization for Women

  • Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States; Amendment XXV

  • United States Department of Transportation

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    Tet Offensive

  • East Los Angeles strike

  • The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

  • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

  • Apollo 8 was launched, the first space mission to leave low Earth orbit and sail around the moon

  • Richard Milhous Nixon served as the 37th president of the United States

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    Stonewall riots

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11 was launched and the lunar team landed on the lunar surface aboard the lunar module Eagle at 20:17 on July 20, 1969. Armstrong became the first man on the moon at 2:56 on July 21,

  • Environmental Protection Agency

  • Occupational Safety and Health Act

  • Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States; Amendment XXVI

  • Nixon shock

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    1972 Nixon visit to China

  • Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

  • Watergate scandal

  • Apollo 17 launch

  • Paris Peace Accords.

  • Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA

  • Nixon made a televised speech formally announcing his resignation as president of the United States

  • Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was inaugurated as the 38th president of the United States

  • Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft

  • Fall of Saigon. End of the Vietnam War

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    Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

  • Helsinki Final Act