Good ol days

Good Ol' Days

By rckkk2014
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    Good Ol Days

  • NATO established

    U.S. is one of twelve countries to join the new organization.

  • McCarthyism begins

    Senator McCarthy pretended he knew communists in the government

  • First troops arrive in Korea

  • Julius and Ethel Rosenburg sentenced to death.

    Julius and Ethel Rosenburg were executed for treason

  • End of Korean War

  • Congress passes unemployment assistance act

    It required to share 50% of the cost with the federal government.

  • Space Race begins

    USSR launches Sputnik, which begins the Space Race.

  • NASA founded

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  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • The stock market improves

    The median family income is $7,688. The per-capita national debt stands at $1,582.

  • President Kennedy killed

  • Civil Rights Act passed

  • The jobs corps are created

    The jobs corps are created under the economic opportunity act

  • First troops sent to Vietnam

    Vietnam war ended in 1973

  • Social security act is created

    President lyndon johnson signs a landmark amendment to the social security act creating medicare and medicaid provides health care for 65 and older and for poor families.

  • Martin Luther King Assassination

  • First Moon Landing