1955

1955-1975

By emilypate

  • 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