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Eisenhower's New Deal
Info, pictureEisenhower utilized the New Deal welfare programs to assist in the recessions. George Humphrey was hired for the execution of the fiscal policy, and tax cuts were refused. -
Eisenhower's Civil Rights
Info, pictureIn 1957, Eisenhower sent in 1000 paratroopers to ensure the rights of the Little Rock Nine to attend Central High. He proposed the first general civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The final act created a permanent Commission for Civil Rights, one of Truman’s original goals. -
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Info/pictureTrue to his campaign pledge, Eisenhower undertook a three-day visit to Korea in December 1952, resulting in the signing of an armistice. As a military commander, he had cultivated a leadership style that self-consciously projected an image of sincerity, fairness, and optimism. Eisenhower had widely been perceived during the war as an "unmilitary" general, and in the White House he similarly struck the pose of an "unpolitical" president. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Info/pictureThe Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, unanimously agreeing that segregation in public schools in unconstitutional. The ruling paves the way for large-scale desegregation, and overturns the "separate but equal" ruling of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. -
The Geneva Accords
Info, pictureOn Indochina, the Geneva Conference a set a documents known as the Geneva Accords. These agreements separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Viet Minh, and a southern zone to be governed by the State of Vietnam. This boundary was formed at the 17th parallel. -
Republic of Vietnam
Info, pictureNgô Đình Diệm becomes the first president of South Vietnam on October 26, 1955. In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Info/pictureNAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. As a result, she is arrested. In response to her arrest, the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott which will last until December 21, 1956, the date of bus desegregation. -
Woolworth's Lunch Counter
Info, pictureFour students from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. They are refused service, and they refuse to leave. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South. -
John F. Kennedy's New Frontier
Info/pictureJohn F. Kennedy's New Frontier brought the Area Redevelopment Act of 1961, which was established to provide nearly $400 million in benefits to "distressed areas" in order to combat chronic unemployment in impoverished cities and rural areas by increasing their levels of economic growth. Also, Kennedy's space initiatives garnered support, and the government committed to his desire to see a moon landing before the end of the 1960s. -
John F. Kennedy's Space Program
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy began a dramatic expansion of the U.S. space program and committed the nation to the ambitious goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. The Apollo Program followed Project Gemini. Its goal was to land humans on the moon and assure their safe return to Earth. This dream was realized on July 20, 1969. -
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John F. Kennedy
Info/pictureJohn F. Kennedy, the youngest president ever elected, assembled one of the youngest cabinets, including his thirty-five-year-old brother, Robert, as attorney general. His social program was known as the New Frontier, but conservative Democrats and Republicans threatended to kill many of its reforms. On November 22, 1963, he was killed by an assassin's bullet, also making him the youngest president to die. -
Freedom Riders
Info, PictureOver the spring and summer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities. These students were known as "freedom riders." Several of the groups are attacked by angry mobs along the way. The program was sponsored by The Congress of Racial Equallity (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC), and it involved more than 1,000 volunteers, black and white. -
"I Have a Dream"
Info/pictureAbout 200,000 people join the March on Washington in Washington, D.C. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. -
Birmingham Bombing
Info, pictureThe 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama is bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of racially motivated terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church kills four girls (Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins) who are attending Sunday school. The locstion was also a popular for civil rights meetings. The event contributes to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society
Info/picturePresident Johnson's Great Society program was a sweeping set of New Dealish economic and welfare measures aimed at transforming the American way of life. The Big Four legislative achievements that crowned it were aid to education, medical care for the elderly and indigent, immigration reform, and a new voting rights bill. -
Lyndon B. Johnson's war on poverty
Lyndon B. Johnson fought against poverty during his presidency. His "office of economic opportunity" called for $1 billion in economic aid. Food stamps, the Jobs Corps, VISTA, Head Start, and Upward Bound were some of his "weapons." -
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Info/pictureThe voters of the Johnson's election were herded into his column by fondness for the Kennedy legacy, faith in Great Society promises, and fear of Goldwater. President Johnson's Great Society programs were aid to education, medical care for the elderly and indigent, immigration reform, and a new voting rights bill. All four points were achieved. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Info, picturePresident Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with the powers to enforce desegregation. -
Gulf of Tonkin incident
Info, pictureOn August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox, while performing a signals intelligence patrol as part of DESOTO operations, engaged three North Vietnamese Navy torpedo boats of the 135th Torpedo Squadron. A sea battle resulted in which there were no U.S. casualties. The outcome was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. -
Operation Rolling Thunder
[Info, picture](Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006, https://sites.google.com/site/vietnamwar1959/operation-rolling-thunder)President Johnson ordered retaliatory bombing raids against military installations in North Vietnam and for the first time ordered attacking U.S. troops to land. By the middle of March 1965, the Americans had "Operation Rolling Thunter" in full swing -- regular full-scale bombing attacks against North Vietnam. Before 1965 ended, some 184,000 American troops were involved. -
Pettus Bridge
Info, pictureBlacks begin a march to Montgomery on March 7, 1965 in support of voting rights but are stopped at Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama by a police blockade. The incident became known as "Bloody Sunday" as the marchers faced violent confrontation by law enforcement personnel. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
[Info, picture](Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006, http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=100)Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, outlawing literacy tests and sent federal voter registrars into several southern states. The act placed an awesome lever for change in blacks' hands. In the following decade, for the first time since emancipation, African Americans had began to migrate into the South. -
Tet Offensive
Info, picture he Tet Offensive began on January 30, 1968. Early in the morning, North Vietnamese troops and Viet Cong forces attacked both towns and cities in South Vietnam, breaking the ceasefire that had been called for the Vietnamese holiday of Tet (the lunar new year). The U.S. and South Vietnam forces, although surprised at the scale of the attack, fought back. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Info, picturePresident Johnson sign the Civil Rights Act of 1968 on April 11, 1968. The act prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of a house. -
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Richard Nixon
Info/pictureWith the nation painfully divided, reconciliation was the first goal set by President Nixon. During his presidency, he was able to end American fighting in Vietnam and improved relations with the U.S.S.R. and China, but the Watergate scandal ultimately led to his resignation. -
Richard Nixon's Environmental Protection Agency
Info, pictureNext to Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon was the most environmentally friendly president. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency and advocated the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. It served to protect human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. -
Richard Nixon's Watergate Scandal
Info, pictureFrank Wills had noticed a piece of tape covering a door latch in the Watergate hotel-office complex, so he had removed it. Later, however, it was replaced. This caused him to call the police. It was discovered to be that burglars had broken in, and whether or not President Nixon had anything to do with it, was an answer that many wanted to find out. This scandal eventually led to his resignation of the presidency. -
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Gerald Ford
Info/pictureGerald Ford had been the first Vice President chosen under the terms of the Twenty-fifth Ammendment and also succeeded the first ever president to resign. During his presidency, Ford faced mastering inflation, reviving a depressed economy, solving chronic energy shortages, and trying to ensure world peace. -
Gerald Ford's Pardoning of Nixon
Info/pictureOn September 8, 1974, one month after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency amid the Watergate scandal, President Gerald R. Ford announced his decision to grant Nixon a full pardon for any crimes he may have committed while in office. This subsequent decision eliminated the possibility of Nixon going on trial, and as a result, it caused a firestorm of anger in the press. -
Gerald Ford's Education for All Handicapped Children Act
Info/pictureThis act was signed into law by President Ford on November 29, 1975. It required all public schools accepting federal funds to provide equal access to education and one free meal a day for children with physical and mental disabilities. The act also required that school districts provide administrative procedures so that parents of disabled children could discuss decisions made regarding their child's education.
