Us History from 1945-1990 By carly_burgie4 Period: 1945 to 1990 Us History from 1945-1990 1946 Kennan's Long Telegram lays out Containment policy 1948 Truman desegregates military 1949 USSR gets atomic bomb, Chinese Communists Win NATO formed 1950 The Korean War Begins 1951 I Love Lucy Airs; First Color TV 1952 US Tests H-Bomb 1953 Korean War Armistice 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ends school segregation 1955 Rosa Parks arrested; Emmett Till murdered 1956 Bus Boycott successful; Interstate Highways Built; Elvis becomes popular 1957 Soviets first in Space with Sputnik I 1958 NASA Formed 1960 JFK Elected; Greensboro sit-ins; SNCC founded 1961 Failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963 March on Washington "I Have a Dream Speech"; JFK Assassinated 1964 The Civil Rights Bill Passed; LBJ Elected 1965 Malcom X Assassinated; Selma Marches; The Voting Rights Bill Passed 1966 Black Panther Party formed; NOW founded 1967 Summer of Love, San Francisco 1968 Nixon Elected; Tet Offensive in Vietnam; MLK Jr. Assassinated 1969 Woodstock Concert; Stonewall Riots; Man on the Moon 1970 Kent State Shootings 1972 Nixon Re-elected; Nixon visits China; Watergate scandal begins; Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in schools 1973 Roe vs. Wade legalizes abortion; US withdraws from Vietnam; Arab Oil Embargo cause gas prices to soar in US 1974 Nixon faced with Impeachment, Resigns, Ford becomes president and pardons Nixon 1975 Vietnam War Ends 1976 Carter Elected 1978 Harvey Milk Assassinated 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis 1980 Reagan Elected; Beginning of HIV epidemic in US 1984 Reagan Re-Elected 1986 Scandal of Iran Contra Affair breaks 1988 Bush Sr. Elected 1989 End of the Cold War, Fall of Soviet Union