Timeline 2: 1955 – 1975

By KyleBena

  • Beginning of Vietnam War

    The US enters Vietnam for the first time, assisting the South Vietnamese government to fight the communist revolution

  • Launch of Sputnik Satellite

    The USSR launches the first satellite into orbit around the Earth, beginning the Space Race between the US and Russia

  • Presidential Inauguration of John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy elected as the 35th President of the United States of America

  • John F. Kennedy Assassinated

    President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    President Lyndon Johnson signs a series of acts that bans discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated

    African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is shot in a Memphis hotel

  • First Man on the Moon

    Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot as the first men to ever walk on the face of the moon.

  • Watergate Scandal

    Political scandal following a break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building with connections to the Nixon Administration