USHIST2 1955- 1975

  • Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks Arrested
    Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white person in a boycott effort.
  • Alaska

    Alaska
    Alaska becomes 49th state in the US
  • John F Kennedy

    John F Kennedy
    JFK becomes 35th president of the US. He was a democratic party president who was later assassinated.
  • Alan Shepard

    Alan Shepard
    Alan Shepard was the first US man in space.
  • John F Kennedy Assassinated

    John F Kennedy Assassinated
    JFK was assassinated in Dallas, Tx by Lee Oswald as the president was in his car.
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

    Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
    James Earl Ray murder Dr. MLK in his hotel room in memphis, Tennessee. This event cause riots around the country to break out.
  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    Richard Nixon served as the 37th US president.
  • Man on the Moon

    Man on the Moon
    Neil Armstrong in the apollo 11 mission step foot on the moon's surface.
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment
    The 26th Amendment reduced the voting age to 18 years of age in 1971
  • Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

    Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
    A joint US-Soviet space flight between two competing world powers of the time.