1955-1975

By m.stan03

  • Polio Vaccine

    The first major polio vaccine is released

  • Minimum Wage Act

    Eisenhower raised minimum wage from $.75 to $1.00 per hour.

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man and was arrested.
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    Vietnam War

    America's longest war

  • First Nuclear Powerplant

    Shippingport, Pennsylvania - first full-scale plant

  • JFK wins election

    Beats Nixon in close election, becomes youngest president

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assasination

    killed in Tennessee by James Earl Ray

  • Watergate Scandal

    "The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continuous attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972 break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building."

  • Resignation of Nixon

    Resigns after Watergate scandal, Gerald Ford takes over