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*The Execution of The Rosenberg's*
The Rosenberg’s were executed on June 19, 1953 for conspiracy to spy on the United States. They were American communists that were said to tell the Soviet Union about the American’s atomic bomb. This execution was the only one on civilians for spying in American history. The Rosenberg’s also had accomplices for spying however, they only served time in jail. They were executed on the electric chair. Julius Rosenberg died on the first electric shock. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional. -
Central High School integrated in Little Rock, Arkansas
In its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public education was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. As school districts across the South sought various ways to respond to the court’s ruling, Little Rock (Pulaski County) Central High School became a national and international symbol of resistance to desegregation. -
*Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California*
Disneyland was being created in Anaheim, California from July 16, 1954 to July 17, 1955. Disneyland was opened on July 18, 1955 and is the most popular tourist attraction till this day. Disneyland was named and supervised by the infamous Walt Disney who got the idea by bringing his daughters to various amusement parks. Disneyland had a railroad go all around it and on the inside was the actual Disneyland where people would have fun. It is now named Disneyland Park to be distinguished from Disne -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lasted till 1956. Rosa Refused to give up her seat to a white man. -
*U-2 Accident*
A U-2 airplane (from the United States) was sent to go to the Soviet Union however, was shot down when going in their territory on May 1, 1960. The Soviet Union showed the United States their alive pilot and pictures of their military bases. The United States was extremely embarrassed for their failed mission. The United States and the Soviet Union then became enemies shortly after this. -
John Kennedy elected
The youngest person to ever be elected president. -
*Peace Corps was made*
Peace corps is a corporation run by the American government and volunteers are what make up the Peace Corps. Peace Corps has three goals to expand American culture to different countries, to expand different countries cultures into America, and providing assistance for technical issues. Volunteers work on different things in the country like hunger, schools, and agriculture. President John F. Kennedy made this corporation on May 1, 1961. -
Freedom Riders
When seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional. -
Rachel Carson writes Silent Spring
When Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published in 1962, it generated a storm of controversy over the use of chemical pesticides. Miss Carson's intent in writing Silent Spring was to warn the public of the dangers associated with pesticide use. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
For thirteen days in October 1962 the world waited—seemingly on the brink of nuclear war—and hoped for a peaceful resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis. -
The Feminine Mystique is published
Published by Betty Friedan. -
March on Washington
The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations, under the theme "jobs, and freedom".Estimates of the number of participants varied from 200,000 to 300,000. Observers estimated that 75–80% of the marchers were black. -
Assassination of John Kennedy
November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
Lyndon Johnson re-elected to Presidency
November 22, Lyndon Baines Johnson became the 36th President of the United States following the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. In an address before a joint session of Congress on November 27, Johnson pledged support for President Kennedy's legislative agenda, which included civil rights and education legislation. -
Civil Rights Act signed by Lyndon Johnson
Prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is assassinated. -
March on Selma
On 25 March 1965, Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for voting rights. King told the assembled crowd: ‘‘There never was a moment in American history more honorable and more inspiring than the pilgrimage of cler -
Medicare and Medicaid established
The Medicare and Medicaid programs were signed into law on July 30, 1965. President LBJ is pictured at the signing ceremony in Independence, Missouri at the Truman Library. Former President Truman is seated beside him. LBJ held the ceremony there to honor President Truman's leadership on health insurance, which he first proposed in 1945. You can read LBJ's speech at the signing ceremony and listen to his taped conversations relating to CMS programs. -
Riots in WATTS
The Watts Riot, which raged for six days and resulted in more than forty million dollars worth of property damage, was both the largest and costliest urban rebellion of the Civil Rights era. -
ceasr chavez and farm works strike
Chavez speaking at a 1974 United Farm Workers rally in Delano, California. When Filipino American farm workers initiated the Delano grape strike on September 8, 1965, to protest for higher wages, Chavez eagerly supported them. -
Founding Conference for NOW
It has a membership of 550,000. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states -
TET Offensive
70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive (named for the lunar new year holiday called Tet), a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. General Vo Nguyen Giap, leader of the Communist People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), planned the offensive in an attempt both to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its support of the Saigon regime. -
Massacre at My Lai
The angry and frustrated men of Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division entered the Vietnamese village of My Lai. "This is what you've been waiting for -- search and destroy -- and you've got it," said their superior officers. A short time later the killing began. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
At 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was hit by a sniper's bullet. King had been standing on the balcony in front of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, when, without warning, he was shot. The .30-caliber rifle bullet entered King's right cheek, traveled through his neck, and finally stopped at his shoulder blade. King was immediately taken to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. -
Assassination of Robert Kennedy
On June 4, 1968, popular Democratic Party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy waited all day for the election results to come in from the Democratic primary in California. At 11:30 p.m., Kennedy, his wife Ethel, and the rest of his entourage left the Royal Suite of the Ambassador Hotel and headed downstairs to the ballroom, where approximately 1,800 supporters waited for him to give his victory speech. -
Nixon becomes President
The 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in a small farmhouse in Yorba Linda, California and raised in nearby Whittier. He attended Whittier College and Duke University School of Law and then joined a law firm in his hometown. He and Patricia Ryan were married in 1940. -
*Shirley Chisholm becomes the first African-American woman elected for Congress*
Shirley Chisholm ran for the New York State Legislature in 1964 and was elected on the same year. She then ran for the Democratic candidate for the congress and was elected to be in the House of Representatives. She was then pronounced the first Africa-American woman ever to be in congress. Shirley had no children and retired from her seat on congress in 1982. She was a very successful woman and will be remembered in history for an extrememly long time. -
Man on the Moon
American Neil Armstrong has become the first man to walk on the Moon. The astronaut stepped onto the Moon's surface, in the Sea of Tranquility, at 0256 GMT, nearly 20 minutes after first opening the hatch on the Eagle landing craft. -
Woodstock
The organizers of the Woodstock Festival were four young men: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang. The oldest of the four was only 27 years old at the time of the Woodstock Festival. Roberts, an heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, and his friend Rosenman were looking for a way to use Roberts' money to invest in an idea that would make them even more money. After placing an ad in The New York Times that stated: "Young men with unlimited capital looking for interesting, legit -
First Earth Day observed
Each year, Earth Day -- April 22 -- marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. The height of hippie and flower-child culture in the United States, 1970 brought the death of Jimi Hendrix, the last Beatles album, and Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Protest was the order of the day, but saving the planet was not the cause. War raged in Vietnam, and students nationwide increasingly opposed it. -
Kent State Protesters killed
Ohio National Guardsmen were on the Kent State college campus to maintain order during a student protest against the Vietnam War. For a still unknown reason, the National Guard suddenly fired upon the already dispersing crowd of student protesters, killing four and wounding nine others. -
*The United States Environmental Protection Agency was created*
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (aka the EPA) was formed by the United States government to help protect the health of all humans throughout the United States. The EPA was made by President Richard Nixon and congress accepted this agency for America. The EPA began working on December 2, 1970 and its headquarters are in Washington, D.C. The annual budget for this agency is $8.682 billion and has about 17,000 full-time employees. -
*The show "All in the Family" was created*
All in the Family was a sitcom that was aired on CBS. It lasted for 8 years and was even followed by the same storyline as Archie's Bunker's Place. All in the Family has won multiple awards for comedy. This show had exactly 9 seasons and 208 episodes. It was ranked #13 on the TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. -
ERA passed Congress as a proposed amendment
First proposed by the National Woman's political party in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment was to provide for the legal equality of the sexes and prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. -
SALT 1 summit
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Richard Nixon, meeting in Moscow, sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreements. At the time, these agreements were the most far-reaching attempts to control nuclear weapons ever. -
Watergate Scandal
Early in the morning of June 17, 1972, several burglars were arrested inside the office of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), located in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C. This was no ordinary robbery: The prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. -
Title IX is passed
Signed by President Richard M. Nixon on July 1, 1972. It is a civil rights law prohibiting discrimination in education programs and activities receiving federal funds. It was the first comprehensive federal law to prohibit sex discrimination against students and employees in these institutions. -
Roe vs. Wade passed
A fight to make abortion illegal. -
Wounded Knee and FBI clash
A team of 200 Oglala Lakota (Sioux) activists and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) seized control of a tiny town with a loaded history -- Wounded Knee, South Dakota. They arrived in town at night, in a caravan of cars and trucks, took the town's residents hostage, and demanded that the U.S. government make good on treaties from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Within hours, police had surrounded Wounded Knee, forming a cordon to prevent protesters from exiting and sympathizers fro -
*Skylab was launched into orbit*
Skylab was the first space station ever to be launched by the USA and operated by NASA. There were exactly a crew of 3 (9 in total) and was in space for about 6 years. It had to go back to earth because it sheild had been broken by the vacuum of space. NASA even had a spaceship ready to launch if the crew in the space station needed help. The skylab space station mostly was said to see the coronal holes in the Sun and report it back to Earth. -
OPEC oil Embargo
On October 17, 1973, Arab oil producers declared an embargo that drastically limited the shipment of oil to the United States. These producers, members of a cartel known as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), enforced the embargo in response to the Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Israel. In a gesture of support for Egypt OPEC curtailed oil exportation to countries that supported the Israelis. The cartel later extended the embargo to other countries and oil prices soared wo -
*Super Outbreak of tornadoes*
This super outbreak of tornadoes happened on April 3-4, 1974. There was exactly 148 tornadoes happening all over the United States as well as in Canada. The tornadoes took over 300 people's lives and was extremely deadly. There were 6 F5 tornadoes which are the most strongest ones and took the most lives. They happened in Indiana, Ohio, and Alabama. -
Nixon resigns and Ford becomes President
When Gerald R. Ford took the oath of office on August 9, 1974, he declared, "I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances.... This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts." -
*Microsoft Corporation was founded by Bill Gates*
Microsoft corporation was founded by Paul allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975. Their headquarters is in Redmond, Washington where everything happenes. Microsoft was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico and they have recieved many awards. The award they have recieved are world's most valuable companies, and world's largest software maker. Microsoft have over 94,000 members (recorded in 2012). Microsoft is the most succesful PC in history and might always. -
*The Atari 2600 becomes the most successful consoles*
The Atari 2600 was made on October 14, 1977 and was one of the best consoles in video game history (for its time). It recieved an award for the 2nd greatest video game console of all time. It is even in the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester, New York. The game Combat was one of the games that helped build the Atari 2600 to its glory today. Another game that helped build the Atari 2600 was Pac-Man (which we still know today).
