American History - 20th Century

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

Up From Slavery published

1901

FDR elected

1932

Olympics in Berlin

1936

FDR reelected

1936

Hitler invades Poland

1939

WWII ends

1945

FDR dies, Truman becomes president

1945

Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

1945

Harry Truman abolishes segretaion in Armed Forces

1948

Miss America Pageant - Blacks allowed

1950

Dwight D. Eisenhower elected

1952

Claudette Colvin

1955

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

Montgomery bus boycott

Period: Dec 5, 1955 to Dec 20, 1956

Little Rock High School (Arkansas)

1957

Greensboro sit in

1960

JFK elected

1960

Supreme Court decision re: bus terminals

Dec 5, 1960

Boynton v. Virginia

Bay of Pigs Invasion

1961

Cuban Missle crisis

1962

Assassination of JFK

1963

Letters from Birmingham Jail

Apr 16, 1963

MLK Jr. "I have a Dream" speech

Aug 28, 1963

MLK won Nobel Peace Prize

1964

For leading non-violent demonstrations for Civil Rights

The 24th Amendment

Jan 23, 1964

Abolition of poll taxes and literacy tests

Congress passes the Voting Rights Act

1965

Banned Poll Taxes

Watts riots

1965

6 days war - Arab-Ireali

1967

The Detroit Riot

Jul 23, 1967

Nixon Elected

1968

MLK Jr. assassinated

Apr 4, 1968

woodstock

1969

The 26th Amendment

Jul 1, 1971

Right to vote lowered to 18

Oil crisis

1973

Nixon withdraws last troops from Vietnam

Mar 29, 1973

Nixon resigns

Aug 8, 1974

Gerald Ford becomes president

Aug 8, 1974

Fall of Saigon

Apr 30, 1975

Jimmy Carter elected

1976

African-Americans get the priesthood

1978

Iran hostage crisis

1979

Ronald Reagan elected

1980

Reagan assassination attempt

1981

Reagan appoints Sandra Day Oconner

1981

George HW Bush elected

1988

Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait

1990

Bill Clinton elected

1992