American History 1955-1975

By Benji:)

  • The Polio Vaccine

    The Polio Vaccine is proved effective and released on a massive scale curbing a deadly disease, with the first vaccine in America being available in early 1955

  • Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not giving up her seat when ordered to by the driver of the bus.

  • The Sputnik Satellite

    The Soviet Union launches the first manmade satellite named Sputnik into outer space pulling them ahead in the space race.

  • U-2 Spy Plane shot down

    An American U-2 Spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union and proven to be linked with spying tarnishing US and Soviet Relations.

  • JFK defeats Nixon

    President John F. Kennedy Narrowly defeats President Richard Nixon in what many believe to be a rigged election

  • The Bay of Pigs Invasion

    During the ensuing Cuban Missile Crisis the Kennedy Administration launched a failed Cuban counter Operation to kill Fidel Castro and restore order to the newly Communist Nation.

  • JFK assassination

    President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in his convertible during a trip to Dallas Texas, and was succeeded by Lyndon B Johnson.

  • MLK assassinated

    Reverend and Civil Rights Activist and Speaker Martin Luther King Junior is shot in a motel in Memphis Tennessee

  • The Watergate Scandal

    Burglars are founded robbing the Democratic National Committee headquarters and are ultimately linked back to President Nixon leading to his resignation.