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McCarthyism
Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power; "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques'' -
Korean War
Korean War begins. Reason for the divison of Korea -
22nd Amendment
Sets a term limit on the president -
Mutual Security Act
Provided American allies with aid -
Immigration and Nationality Act
restricted immigration into the U.S -
United States presidential election of 1952
Republican Dwight Eisenhower was the landslide winner -
Joseph McCarthy discredited in Army-McCarthy hearings
McCarthy was let go -
Geneva Conference
U.S. increases aid to South Vietnam. -
Fast Food Restaurant
McDonalds opens up -
Warsaw Pact
mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe (including the USSR) -
Rosa Parks incites the Montgomery Bus Boycott
political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system -
Vietnam War begins
U.S,A fighting to contain communism -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
primarily a voting rights bill, becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
stablishing federal inspection of local voter registration polls and penalties for those attempting to obstruct someone's attempt to register to vote or actually vote -
1961 election
John F Kennedy becomes president -
23rd Amendment
grants electors to the District of Columbia -
United States embargo against Cuba
he US placed an embargo on exports to Cuba -
Marilyn Monroe
Dies of an overdoese at 36 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
closest nuclear confrontation (as of 2010) involving the U.S. and USSR -
JFK killed
President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas -
24th Amendment
prohibiting both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax -
President Johnson proposes the Great Society
whose social reforms were aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice