United States History: 1955-1975

By leviticus barnvear

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat on the bus, starting the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

  • Federal Highway Ac

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Reelected

  • The Affluent Society

  • Little Rock Nine

  • Cuban Revolution

  • Sit-in protests begin

  • John F. Kennedy elected President

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Construction of the Berlin Wall

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • March on Washington

    To support legislation, more than 200,000 civil rights supporters march

  • Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president

    President JFK was assassinated - Johnson steps into office.

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Voting rights act passed

  • MLK assassinated

  • Richard Nixon elected president

  • America goes to the moon

  • 26th Amendment

  • Equal Rights Amendment approved

  • Nixon reelected

  • Stock Market crashes and recession starts

  • End of Vietnam War

  • Nixon resigns

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