Give Peace a Chance

By campbell806

  • P - Fidel Castro

  • Period: to

    1955-1973

  • S/P/I - Congress handed down a 2nd Brown ruling

    Desegregated schools "with al deliberant speed"

  • S - Murder of Emmett Till

  • S - Rosa Parks

  • P/I - America places Ngo Dinh Diem in power

  • S - Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation

  • P - Vietcong

  • S/I - Little Rock

    National Guard called to keep black students out of a white school.

  • S/P - Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Gave attorney general power over school desegregation

  • S/I - Southern Christian Leadership Conference

    "to carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of second-class citizenship." - Martin Luther King Jr.

  • S - First debate for Presidency televised

    Between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon. Kennedy reigned victorious and changed America's opinion of him.

  • S - Mrs.Kennedy became an American fashion symbol

    America became obsessed

  • P - American U2 spy plane shot down

  • I - ECHO

    NASA deployed ECHO, the first communications satellite that can be seen by the naked eye.

  • E - deficit spending advocated

  • S/I - Soviets send first man into space

  • S/P - Kennedy gives his inauguration address

  • S/E - Affirmative Action

    Forced companies to hire more minority groups.

  • S - Peace Corps founded

  • P - Bay of Pigs failure

  • S/P - Alliance for Progress founded

    Its side intentions were to prevent Fidel Castro from exporting his ideas to Latin American countries.

  • E - minimum wage increased by $1.25 an hour

  • E - Unemployment extended

  • S/P - Berlin Wall constructed

  • E/P - Department of Defense

    Recieved a 20% budget increase to create nuclear missiles, submarines, and expansion of armed services.

  • I - American John Glenn orbited the earth 3 times

    Our science level has increased by 1.

  • S - Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring

    Warned of dangers of pollution and first time DDT was seen as a threat.

  • S/P - Cuban Missile Crisis

  • S/P/I - Martin Luther Jr.'s "I Have a Dream"

  • S/P - Warren Commission

  • P - Limited Test Ban

  • S/P - President Kennedy assassinated

  • P - Lyndon B. Johnson became President

  • S - The Beatles began to gain popularity

    And the rest is history

  • E - Johnson declared war on American poverty

  • S/P/I - 1964 Civil Rights Act

    First bill passed to stop racial discrimination

  • S/I - Brown vs. Board of Education

    Ruled school segregation unconstitutional

  • S/P/E/I - Great Society

    It was economic because all of the money for it went to the war and the Great Society was never carried out.

  • S/P/I - Freedom Summer

    SNCC trying to convince Congress to pass a voting rights act.

  • S/P - Warren Court

    Banned prayer in public school

  • E - Economic Opportunity Act

  • E - Job Corps youth training program

    EOA legislation created this

  • E - VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)

    EOA legistation created this

  • E - Project Head Start

    EOA legislation created this

  • P/E - Tonkin Gulf Resolution

    Granted Johnson military power in Vietnam. Gave him a blank check for the war.

  • S/P - Immiogration Act of 1965

  • P - Robert McNamara and Dean Rusk

  • S/P - Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • E - Medicare

  • E - Medicaid

  • E - War creates manufacuring jobs

  • S/I - Black Panther Party founded

  • S - Miranda vs. Arizona

    Created Miranda Rights

  • S/P - credibility gap

    Separated the President from his people

  • I - First heart transplant

  • P - Tet Offensive

  • S/I - Kerner Commission

    President wanted to study the causes of urban violence. White racism proved to be the culprit.

  • S/P/I - Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Led to urban rioting

  • S/P - Civil Rights Act of 1968

  • S/P - Vietnamization

  • S/P - Richard Nixon elected President

  • S/P/I - Apollo 11 landed on the moon

    "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

  • S/P/I - Kent State

    Outraged the country and put more pressure on the President

  • S/P/I - Pentagon Papers

    Outraged the country

  • S/P - Last U.S. combat troops leave Vietnam

  • E - Total cost of war: $150,000,000,000

  • E - Keynesian economics

    Advocated a mixed economy

  • P - War Powers Act

    President must tell Congress (within 48 hours) if U.S. forces are sent into a hostile area without declaration of war.

  • S - Saigon falls