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A civil rights protest because African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery while also protesting segregated seating. The boycott took place on December 5 1955 though December 20 1956.
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This the Middle Eastern country the chance to request American economic assistance or aid from US military forces if it were threatened by armed aggression.
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A group of nine African American students had enrolled in Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957. Their enrollment caused the Little Rock Crisis where the students were initially prevented from entering the racial segregated school by Orval Faubus the Governor of Arkansas.
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President Eisenhower sent Congress a proposal for Civil Rights Legislation. This act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
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The first artificial Earth satellite. Created and launched by the Soviet Union. It was about the size of a beach ball weighing 183.9 lbs. It took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a agency responsible for coordinating America´s activities in space. This was created in response to the Soviet Unions launch of the Sputnik.
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An American spy plane was shot down Soviet Air Defense Forces while trying to preform photographic Aerial observation deep inside the Soviet territory.
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JFK was elected in the 44th quadrennial presidential election. John F. Kennedy was elected over Richard Nixon.
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By Congress of Racial Equality, a civil rights group committed and chose nonviolent action. A few years before that the US supreme court declared segregation on interstate buses and in interstate terminals.
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This Amendment allows and extends the right to vote in presidential elections to citizens residing in the District of Columbia.
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An invasion that was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba, by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.
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Leaders of the US and the Soviet Union were in a intense 13 day political and military standoff over the installment of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba. Just a few miles from US shores. Kennedy agreed secretly to take missiles from Turkey as well.
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Riots had came about on campus, and where students, locals and committed segregationist had gathered to protest the enrollment of a student James Meredith. A black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school.
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The march took place in Washington, it was a huge protest. 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in DC. Protesting segregation and job discrimination against black nations.
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JFK was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas while during a campaign visit. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. After Oswald was arrested he was soon murdered at a local nightclub by the owner Jack Ruby.
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This was name of the legislation first introduced to the US President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address.
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The US ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution prohibiting and poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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A set of domestic programs in the US launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson. The main goal was to totally eliminate poverty and racial justice. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty and transportation was launched at this time.
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A political slogan given to various groups that aimed to achieve self-determination for people of African decent. Used by African American activist.
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This was a series of violent confrontations between residents of mostly African Americans neighborhoods of Detroit and the cities police department. This lasted five days, this riot resulted in 43 deaths, including 33 African Americans and 10 white.
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Martin Luther King was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, TN. Following the assassination was a speech given by Robert Kennedy in his honor. In his speech he talked about all the great things Martin Luther King did, and how people loved him.
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Richard Nixon was elected the 37th president of the United States. He had previously served as the past vice president from 1953-1961.
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Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight that landed humans on the moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle.
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President Nixon shocked the world by announcing on the television that he was going to visit the PRC. This allowed the US to see pictures of china for the first time in decades.
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A political scandal in the US involving President Nixon which later lead to Nixon´s resignation.
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During Christmas time in Hanoi 40 years ago, the biggest bombing and explosion campaign by US B-52 air craft. The bomb dropped at least 20,000 tons of explosives in Hanoi.
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This was intended for tighter monetary policy because the decline in production and the higher unemployment were supposed to discourage price increases.
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Audio recordings were found, recordings of Nixon´s conversations with family members and administration officials.
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Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War.