1955-1975

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  • Federal Aid Highway Act

  • Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat

  • Social Security Act Amendment

  • Brown v Board of Education

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • Southern Manifesto

  • Suez Crisis

  • Dwight D Eisenhower elected President

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Eisenhower Doctrine

  • Soviets Launched Sputnik

  • United States launched Sputnik

  • United States launched Satellite (Explorer 1)

  • Soviets launched Luna 2

  • Civil Rights Act

  • John F. Kennedy elected President

  • Soviets shot down American Spy plane

  • Interstate Commerce Commission

  • Wars of national liberation

    (Part of the Bay of Pigs Invasion)

  • Suspended diplomatic relations with Cuba

  • Berlin Wall first built of barbed wire

  • Berlin Wall second fence built

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Martin Luther King arrested

  • March on Washington

    MLK gave his "I Have a Dream" speech

  • John F. Kennedy assassinated

  • Johnson sworn in as President

  • Revenue Act

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Andrew Johnson elected President

  • Economic Opportunity Act

  • Mississippi voter registration project

  • Housing and Development Act

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Highway Safety Act

  • National Organization for Women (NOW)

  • Israel won 6 days of War

  • Richard Nixon elected President

  • Alexander v Holmes County Board of Education Court Case

  • Man walked on the moon

  • Period: to

    Woodstock Music and Art Fair

    Bethel, New York

  • Occupational Safety and Health Act

  • Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

  • 26th Amendment ratified

  • Federal Election Campaign Act

  • Richard Nixon re-elected President

  • Roe v Wade Court Case

  • Peace agreement

  • US v Richard M Nixon court case

  • Nixon resigned from office

  • Gerald Ford became President after Nixon resigned

  • Berlin Wall finally built of concrete

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