1955-1975

By smartdcj

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, and was arrested. As a result Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. organized a bus boycott to protest Montgomery Bus Laws.

  • Civil Rights Act

    prohibited segregation in public places

  • U.S. troops occupy Lebanon

  • Kennedy elected president

  • Berlin Crisis, Bay of Pigs

    Berlin Crisis- Conflict between the U.S and the USSR concerning Berlin, lead to the Berlin Wall
    Bay of Pigs- Failed U.S invasion attempt on Cuba.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • War on Washington,"I have a dream speech"

  • JFK Assasinated

  • Malcom X assasinated

  • France withdraws from Nato

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., election of Richard Nixon as president

  • Neil Armstrong lands on the moon

  • Massacre at Kent State

  • Pentagon papers published

    proof that the robbery of the white house was an inside job

  • cease fire in vietnam

  • U.S. withdraws forces from vietnam