Timeline: Post War America | Timetoast

Period: Oct 14, 1890 to Mar 28, 1969

Dwight D.Eisenhower
Period: Oct 5, 1902 to Jan 14, 1984

Ray Kroc
Period: Aug 27, 1908 to Jan 22, 1973

Lyndon B. Johnson
Period: Jan 9, 1913 to Apr 22, 1994

Richard "Dick" Nixon

Presidential term: January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974
Period: Oct 28, 1914 to Jun 23, 1995

Jonas Salk
Period: May 29, 1917 to Nov 22, 1963

John F. Kennedy
Period: Feb 4, 1921 to Feb 4, 2006

Betty Friedan
Period: Aug 17, 1929 to Aug 1, 1977

Gary Powers
Period: Aug 5, 1935 to Nov 29, 1998

Roy Benavidez
Period: Nov 30, 1936 to Apr 12, 1989

Abby Hoffman
Period: May 26, 1938 to Apr 5, 1975

House Un-American Activities Committee

May 26, 1938
Apr 4, 1940

Venona Project
Jun 22, 1944

G.I. Bill Enacted
Mar 5, 1946

Churchill delivers his Iron Curtain Speech
Period: Apr 5, 1947 to Apr 5, 1991

Cold war

Kennedy helped win
Apr 4, 1949

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Period: Jan 5, 1950 to Dec 31, 1959

1950's Prosperity

1950's
Period: Apr 5, 1950 to Apr 5, 1965

Beatniks

Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s.
Apr 7, 1954

Domino theory

Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed the domino theory in one of his speeches
Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975

Vietnam War
Oct 7, 1957

Sputnik Launch

Russians launch Sputnik satillite
May 22, 1964

Great Society

Lyndon B. Johnson introduces "Great Society"
Aug 7, 1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Jul 30, 1965

Medicaid
Jan 30, 1968

Tet Offensive
Jul 20, 1969

Moon Landing
Apr 5, 1970

Rustbelt and Sunbelt Migration
Apr 30, 1975

Fall of Saigon