Lesson 14 Unit 2 Timeline Project

By SadieDenson

  • Bay of Pigs

    After the U.S. trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro, they did so and were defeated by Castro's troops. John F. Kennedy was president.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    13 day tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union over nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba. John F. Kennedy was president.

  • Kennedy Assassination

    President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in a presidential motorcade.

  • Twenty-fourth Amendment

    Gave people the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other tax. Lyndon B. Johnson was president.

  • Civil Rights Act pf 1964

    An act that outlawed discrimination based on race, religion, sex, color, or national origin. Lyndon B. Johnson was president.

  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    A sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson was president.

  • Johnson Doctrine

    Doctrine that declared that domestic revolution in the Western Hemisphere would no longer be a local matter when "the object is the establishment of a communist dictatorship". Lyndon B. Johnson was president.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Act that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. Lyndon B. Johnson was president.

  • Martin Luther King Jr, Assassination

    Martin Luther King Jr. was shot by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson was president.

  • Twenty-sixth Amendment

    Lowered the voting age to 18. Lyndon B. Johnson was president.