USA 1955-92

By history_student 1998

  • Dwight.D.Eisenhower

    34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a republican president. His vice president at the time was Richard Nixon.
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    USA 1955-92

  • Brown v. The board of education

    Topeka Kansas

  • First White Citizen council formed

  • Llittle Rock, Arkansas challenged school de-segregation

  • Greensboro sit-ins

    On February 1, 1960 four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students entered the F. W. Woolworth Co. department store in Greensboro, North Carolina and staged a sit-in at the store's segregated lunch counter.

  • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded

  • John.F.Kennedy

    Preceeded Dwight.D.Eisenhowser. He was the 35th president from January 20th 1961 to November 22nd 1963 when he was assasinated. He was a democrat.

  • Bay of pigs invasion

    Unsuccessful attempt to invade cuba by cuban exiles. This was organised and financed by Washington. April 17th 1961- April 19th 1961.

  • First freedom rides

  • Cuban missile crisis

    Us compels Soviet Union to withdraw nuclear weapons from cuba. October 16th- October 28th

  • Lyndon.B.Johnson instated

    He succeeded John.F.Kennedy after his assassination. He was a democrat from Texas. He was president from November 22nd 1963 to January 20th 1969.

  • John.F.Kennedy asassinated

    He was assasinated by Lee Oswald Havey on a visit to Dallas, Texas.

  • Martin Luther King. Jr asassinated

    He was hit by a snipers bullet whilst staanding on the balcony in front of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee. he was pronounced dead at 7:05pm.

  • Us steps up military intervention in Vietnam

    Us steps up military intervention in Vietnam civil rights act signed into law; aims to halt discrimination on grounds of race, colour, religion and nationality.

  • Assassination of Malcolm X

  • Black Power Movement Formed

  • National Organisation for women (NOW) formed

  • Black Panther Party Formed

  • Red Power: American Indian Movement (AIM)

  • Assassination of Bobby Kennedy

  • Richard Nixon

    Suceeded Lyndon B Johnson. He was the 37th president and a Republican. He resigned from office August 9th 1974.

  • StoneWall Riots (birth of gay rights movement)

  • First man on the moon

    Accomplished by an american astronaut by the name of Neil Armstrong

  • Kent state shootings

  • Nixon takes historic trip to China

  • Watergate burgulary

  • Gerald Ford

    The 38th president of the USA. He was in office August 9th 1974 to January 20th 1977. He was a republican who succeeded Richard Nixon after his resignation.

  • Jimmy Carter

    He was in office january 20th 1977 to january 20th 1981. He was a democrat who succeeded Gerald Ford in 1977.

  • Harvey Milk

    Harvey Milk on the sanfrancisco board of supervisors introduced a gay rights ordinance.

  • AIM begins the @the longest walk' to highlight anti-Indian legislation

  • Harvey Milk assassinated

  • National March On Washington for lesbian and gay rights

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • Failed attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages

  • Race Riots

    Occurred in Miami, Florida following the acquittal of four Miami-Dade Police officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie. McDuffie, an African-American, died from injuries sustained at the hands of four white officers trying to arrest him after a high-speed chase. The officers were tried and acquitted for manslaughter and evidence tampering, among other charges. Subsequently, a race riot broke out in the black neighborhoods of Overtown and Liberty City in Miami.

  • Ronald Reagan

    Republican president who was in office from January 20th 1981 till January 20th 1989.

  • Reagan assasination attempt

    He had just finished giving a speech to a group of trade unionists at the National Conference of Building and Construction Trades Department. John Hinckley Jr made an attempt to assasinate Reagan. Although he was shot in the rib, the bullet failed to explode and narrowly missed his heart. the assasination attempt failed.

  • New York Times reports the first case of AIDs

  • Nancy Reagan just say no campaign

  • US invades Caribbean nation of Grenada

    prompted by its concerns over the island's ties with Cuba. (5th october - 15th december)

  • Space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after take off from Cape Canaveral.

    All seven crew members are killed. Manned space flights are suspended until September 1988

  • Civil Rights Restoration Act

    To combat the declining effective of civil right legislation.

  • George.H.W.Bush

    A republican president who was in office january 20th 1989 to january 20th 1993.

  • Ryan White CARE act

    Ryan White Comprehensive Aids Resources Emergency Care Act

  • Race Riots in Los Angeles after Rodney King trial

    They were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbance that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, in 1992, following the acquittal of police officers on trial regarding a videotaped and widely covered police brutality incident.

  • Election of Bill Clinton

    (Democrat)