Technology Project #3 1955-1975

  • Joseph McCarthy Dies

    One of the original people to popularize the red scare, he supposedly has a list of over 200 names of soviet sympathizers serving the US, this was later debunked and he eventually died of his alcoholism.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957 passed

    this was passed as a result of the protest to the jim crow laws that segregated blacks
  • John Galbraith writes The Affluent Society

    This book celebrated the post world war America and the consumer advents that occurred.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Cuban Exiles tried to invade Cuba but were stopped by civilians and soldiers
  • Kennedy Asssasinated

    The president was assassinated and his successor Lyndon Johnson was inaugurated
  • Great Society

    This was Johnsons plan to end poverty and racial justice.
  • Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

    This act would have given poorer people a chance to have a chance to make decisions is federally funded programs
  • Gulf of Tonkin

    The USS Maddox reported fire from a North Vietnamese ship in the Gulf of Tonkin.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    This was meant to abolish the voting discriminations of negroes
  • Vietnam War

    US troops were sent to Vietnam