1955 – 1975

By pfomba
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    Vietnam War

    After removing the French, the now independent Vietnam was split between a communist north and pro-west south. For 20 years the North Vietnamese tried to conquer South Vietnamese.

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower be comes president

    Dwight D. Eisenhower was re-elected as President of the United States.

  • Central High School in Little Rock

    Following Brown v. Board of Education, the NAACP registered 9 black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock in the 1957 school year. The school refused to let the students attend, and president Eisenhower responded by having the students escorted to class by a detachment of US Army Airborne troops.

  • Hawaii and Alaska

    To expand U.S. presence in the Pacific region, Hawaii and Alaska gained statehood.

  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy was elected as the 35th President of the United States of America.
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  • Civil Rights Act of 1960 is passed

    This act would strengthen the voting rights of minorities, acted as an add-on to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

  • U.S. Sends Military Advisers to Vietnam

    Security of Defense Robert McNamara approves the sending of six divisions (200,000 men) of US troops to "advise" the South Vietnamese.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    The Bay of Pigs Invasion would be a failure to overthrow Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba. This would be considered a failure for the U.S. since the country provided weapons and munition to exiles in the invasion.

  • The Trade Expansion Act

    In order to stimulate international trade, JFK lowered the American protective tariff.

  • JFK Assassination

    JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov 22, 1963. Lyndon Johnson was immediately sworn into the presidency.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

    Lyndon B. Johnson was re-elected as President of the United States on Nov 3, 1964.

  • The Voting Rights Act

    The Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory voting practices by states aiming to disenfranchise minorities.

  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon was elected as the 37th President of the United States.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassination

    James Earl Ray killed MLK in his motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The killing set off a spree of riots and saw the end of the nonviolent protest movement, with the militant black power phase picking up pace.

  • The Equal Rights Amendment

    The Equal Rights Act was passed by Congress but failed to be ratified by the states. The goal of this act was to outlaw sex discrimination in the workplace,

  • US withdraws from Vietnam

    After securing the release of American POWs from Hanoi and a cessation of hostilities, president Nixon withdrew all American forces from Vietnam, leaving South Vietnam to face the communists alone.