1955-1975

By ashcarr1

  • Polio Vaccine is released

  • Geneva Summit Conference

    This is held between the USSR, U.S. leaders, France, and Great Britain

  • Rosa Parks is arrested

  • Eisenhower signs Federal-Aid Highway Act

  • Little Rock desegregation, 9 black students allowed to go to a all white school

  • Sptnik is launched

  • Transatlantic Air travel starts

  • Lunch counter sit in protests begin

  • JFK Becomes youngest elected president

  • First U.S. combat death in Vietnam.

  • Kennedy is assassinated

  • March on the Pentagon to protest against war

  • MLK is assassinated

  • 26th Amendment is Ratified

    Lowering the voting age from 21 to 18

  • Watergate

  • Vietnam war ends

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