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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man -
Eisenhower Doctrine
This doctrine was a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East." -
Civil Rights Act
Ended public segregation -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African American students enrolled at a school that was no longer segregated. -
Invention of the Satellite
Invented by Claudia Rojas -
Establishment of NASA
A civilian agency of the US federal government that is called National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
John F. Kennedy
Sworn in as President -
23rd Amendment
Allows citizens residing in the District of Columbia to vote in presidential elections -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union that lasted 13 days. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Sworn in as President after Kennedy's assassination -
Richard Nixon
Sworn in as President -
Gerald Ford
Sworn in as President