Tech Project 1955-1975

By dcade12
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    1955- 1975

  • Minimum Wage Increase

    The United States Minimum wage is increased from .75 cents to $1 an hour.

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks practices her famous bus boycott where she refuses to sit in the back of the bus.

  • Eisenhower's second term

    President Eisenhower is sworn in for his second term as the United States President

  • Explorer 1

    The first US Satellite is launched into space.

  • NASA

    NASA is created in attempt to win the cold war/ space race over the Soviet Union.

  • Alask and Hawaii

    Alaska and Hawaii because the 49th and 50th states of the United States of America.

  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy is sworn in as President of the United States

  • Martin Luther King Jr.

    Martin Luther King makes his famous speech in Washington D.C.

  • Kennedy's Assassination

    John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas and his Vide President, Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.

  • Johnson's Second Term

    President Lyndon B.Johnson is sworn in for his second term in office.

  • US joins the Vietnam War

    President Johnson sends US troops to Vietnam as a defense against the Soviet Union.

  • MLK Assiassination

    Black rights activist MLK is shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.

  • Cicil Rights Act of 1968

    The Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed giving every race equal opportunity for housing and made it illegal to force a threat upon anyone based on race.

  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon is sworn in as President of the United States

  • US Reaches the moon

    Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first men to walk on the moon for the United States.

  • 26th Amendent

    The 26th amendment is passed allowing everyone 18 or older to vote.

  • Gerald Ford

    Gerald Ford is sworn in as President of the United States after Nixon's resignation following the Watergate Scandal.