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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white passenger. Martin Luther King Jr. kicked off his civil rights career leading protesters in a boycott of the bus system, resulting in a Supreme Court decision that bus segregation was unconstitutional. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower was re-elected as President of the United States. -
Following Brown v. Board of Education, the NAACP registered 9 black students to attend Central High School in Little Rock in the 1957 school year. The school refused to let the students attend, and president Eisenhower responded by having the students escorted to class by a detachment of US Army Airborne troops. -
After the Russians launched Sputnik in 1957, it became clear Americans needed to catch up in the fields of math and science, so the NDEA was signed in to provide for math and science educations.
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To expand U.S. presence in the Pacific region, Hawaii and Alaska gained statehood. -
John F. Kennedy was elected as the 35th President of the United States of America. -
This act would strengthen the voting rights of minorities, acted as an add-on to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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Security of Defense Robert McNamara approves the sending of six divisions (200,000 men) of US troops to "advise" the South Vietnamese.
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Security of Defense Robert McNamara approves the sending of six divisions (200,000 men) of US troops to "advise" the South Vietnamese.
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1961 – APR 30, 1975
Vietnam War
The War would begin when the U.S. sent over 900 military advisors to Saigon. This would also conclude in the U.S. losing their first war in American History. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion would be a failure to overthrow Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba. This would be considered a failure for the U.S. since the country provided weapons and munition to exiles in the invasion.
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In order to stimulate international trade, JFK lowered the American protective tariff.
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JFK was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on Nov 22, 1963. Lyndon Johnson was immediately sworn into the presidency. -
The 24th Amendment to the Constitution abolished the use of a poll tax in national votes.
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Lyndon B. Johnson was re-elected as President of the United States on Nov 3, 1964. -
The Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory voting practices by states aiming to disenfranchise minorities.
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James Earl Ray killed MLK in his motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The killing set off a spree of riots and saw the end of the nonviolent protest movement, with the militant black power phase picking up pace.
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Richard Nixon was elected as the 37th President of the United States. -
This legislation resulted in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal regulatory body dedicated to upholding the environmental regulations set in place by earlier Clean Air Acts. -
The 26th Amendment to the Constitution reduced the legal voting age to 18, bringing in a generation of young voters.
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The Equal Rights Act was passed by Congress but failed to be ratified by the states. The goal of this act was to outlaw sex discrimination in the workplace,
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Richard Nixon Reelected
Richard Nixon was re-elected President of the United States on Nov 7, 1972. -
After securing the release of American POWs from Hanoi and a cessation of hostilities, president Nixon withdrew all American forces from Vietnam, leaving South Vietnam to face the communists alone.
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After removing the French, the now independent Vietnam was split between a communist north and pro-west south. For 20 years the North Vietnamese tried to conquer South Vietnamese.