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Dwight D. Eisenhower elected.
Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th president of the United States and remains in office until 1961. -
Operation Wetback is implemented
Operation Wetback rounded up and targetted illegal immigrants that were entering the United States in states like California and Arizona. -
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Joseph McCarthy becomes well known as he prosecutes the US Army in court cases contesting their poor execution lately, These become the first ever televised court hearings. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This was a court case that overturned the "Plessy v. Ferguson" case and said that states could no longer segregate schools by race. -
Polio vaccine is distributed
Jonas Salk distributes the first polio vaccine. This, paired with another vaccine that was released in 1957, aid in essentially irradicating the world of the poliovirus. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Interstate Highway Act
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 was an extremely expensive yet beneficial commission that provided for creation of multi-lane highways that would make access and transit more easy and accessable throughout the US. -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded
Martin Luther King Jr. founds the SCLC as part of the civil rights movement. -
Babyboom Peaks
The rise of domesticity propelled the fertility rate to 123 which severely differed from the 80 rate in 1940. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine african-american students were enrolled into Little Rock Central High School -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Goal was voting rights. It claimed that all americans should exercise their right to vote. This was the first Civil Rights Act since the Reconstruction era. -
NASA is created.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is founded in response to the launch of the Sputnik1 by the Soviet Union. NASA was the United States' first attempt to truly combat Russia in the space race. -
Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba
Fidel Castro was elected Prime Minister of Cuba and asserts his communist influence into politics and this set of events eventually propels towards the Cuban Missile Crisis. -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
This Civil Rights Act was directed at implementing penalties for those who obstructed someone's attempt to vote because of their gender or race.
