1955-1975

By craigwallace

  • All Schools have to Interate

  • Disneyland Opens

  • Period: to

    Vietnam War

  • Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat

  • Federal-Aid Highway Act Signed

    Made Interstates Possible

  • Transatlantic Telephone Cable Begins Operation

  • Eisenhower Re-Elected

  • Gordan Gould Invented the Laser

  • Jimmy Hoffa Arrested

    Bribery Charge

  • First Attempt to Launch a Satellite

  • Exployer 1 Launched Successfully

  • First World Fair Since WWII

  • Jet Passenger Planes Introduced

  • Alaska Admitted as a State

  • First Running of the Daytona 500

  • Hawaii Admitted as a State

  • Tiros I Lauched

    First Weahter Satellite

  • Transat 1-b Launched

    First Navigation Satellite

  • American U-2 Shot Down

    Gary Powers was arrested by the russians

  • Fifty Star Flag Debuted

  • John F. Kennedy Elected

  • Bay of Pigs

  • First Manned Sub-Orbital Space Flight

  • Construction of the Berlin Wall

  • John Glenn Becomes the First Person In Orbit

  • Cuban Missile Crisis begins

  • Alcatraz Closed

  • Agreement for no Nuclear Testing Above Ground

  • I Have a Dream Speech

  • JFK Assasanated

  • Lyndon B Johnson Becomes President

  • Muhammad Ali Wins the Heavyweight Chapionship

  • Lyndon B Johnson Re-Elected

  • Voting Act of 1965 Signed

  • Medicare Begins

  • First Super Bowl

  • Outer Space Treaty Signed

  • First Black Supreme Court Justice

  • MLK Assassinated

  • Richard Nixon Elected

  • First Man Set Foot on the Moon

  • Internet Invented

  • 1970 Census Counts 200 Million People

  • Ban on Television Cigarette Advertisements

  • 26th Amendment Added

  • Invention of the Microprocessor

  • Disney World Opens

  • Watergate Begins

  • Richard Nixon Re-Elected

  • Roe vs. Wade

  • Secretariat Wins the Triple Crown

  • Arab Oil Embargo

  • Arab Oil Embargo Ends

  • Richard Nixon Resigned

  • Gerald Ford Became President

  • Wheel of Fortune Premiers

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