Period 8 By spyballoon27 1945 US drops atomic bombs on Japan 1945 United Nations formed 1946 First Levittown 1947 Executive Orders 9980 & 9981 1947 Truman Doctrine Period: 1947 to 1991 The Cold War 1948 Marshall Plan Period: 1948 to 1949 Berlin Blockade 1949 NAO formed Period: 1950 to 1953 The Korean War 1952 2nd Red Scare / McCarthyism 1952 Dwight Eisenhower elected 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Period: 1954 to 1968 The Civil Rights Movement 1955 Emmett Till murdered 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott 1957 Federal Troops Sent to Little Rock, AK 1957 Federal Highway Act 1957 Space Race 1958 NASA established 1960 John F. Kennedy elected 1961 Freedom Rides 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 "Silent Spring" published 1963 "Feminine Mystigue" published 1963 Equal Pay Act 1963 President Kennedy assassinated 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson elected 1963 Birmingham Campaign 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 1964 24th Amendment 1964 Economic Opportunity Act 1964 Civil Rights Act 1965 Malcolm X assasinated 1965 Selma Freedom March 1965 Griswold vs. Connecticut 1965 Immigration & Nationality Act 1965 Medicare/Medicaid 1965 Voting Rights Act Period: 1965 to 1975 The Vietnam War 1966 Black Panther Party formed 1966 Miranda vs. Arizona 1968 My Lai Massacre 1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated 1968 Richard Nixon elected president 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated 1969 Stonewall Riots 1969 Woodstock Music Festival 1970 Kent State Massacre 1970 Environmental Protection Agency/Earth Day 1970 Clean Air Act 1971 26th Amendment 1972 Equal Rights Amendment approved in Congress 1972 SALT I Treaty 1972 Watergate Scandal 1973 Wounded Knee Conflict 1973 Roe vs. Wade 1974 Nixon resigns 1976 Jimmy Carter elected president 1978 Bakke vs. University of California 1980 Ronald Reagan elected president