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Timeline of United States history (1950-1969)
This section of the
Timeline of United States history
concerns
events from
1950
to
1969
.
1950s
1950
-
Josepth McCarthy[?]
gains power, and
McCarthyism
(1950-1954) begins
1950
-
McCarron Internal Security Act
1950
-
Korean War
begins
1950
- National Security Council Memo 68
1951
-
22nd Amendment
1951
-
Mutual Security Act
1951
- MacArthur fired by Truman for invading China
1952
-
ANZUS Treaty
1952
-
Immigration and Naturalization Act
1953
-
Dwight D. Eisenhower
becomes President
1953
- Rosenbergs executed
1953
- Armistice in Korea196
1953
- Shah of Iran returns to power in CIA-assisted coup
1954
- Joseph McCarthy discredited in
Army-McCarthy hearings[?]
1954
-
Saint Lawrence Seaway Act[?]
1954
-
Baghdad Pact
1954
-
Brown v. Board of Education
1954
- SEATO alliance
1954
- Fall of
Dien Bien Phu[?]
; French lose control of Vietnam
1954
- Geneva Conference
1954
- China bombs Taiwan; Eisenhower sends in troops
1955
-
Rosa Parks
incites Montgomery bus boycott
1955
- AFL and CIO merge
1955
-
Warsaw Pact
1956
-
Interstate Highway
Act
1956
- US refuses to support the
Hungarian Revolution[?]
1956
- US installs Diem as leader of South Vietnam
1957
-
Eisenhower Doctrine
1957
-
Civil Rights Act of 1957[?]
1957
- Russians launch Sputnik; "
space race
" begins
1957
- first nuclear power plant goes into service
1957
- Little Rock school desegregation
1958
-
National Defense Education Act
1958
-
NASA
formed
1959
- Cuban Revolution
1959
-
Landrum-Griffin Act
1959
-
Alaska
and
Hawaii
become states
1960s
1960
-
U-2 incident[?]
1960
- Greensboro sit-in
1960
-
Civil Rights Act of 1960[?]
1960
-
Viet Cong
formed
1961
-
John F. Kennedy
becomes President
1961
-
23rd Amendment
1961
-
Peace Corps
1961
-
Alliance for Progress
1961
-
Bay of Pigs
1961
- Trade embargo on Cuba
1961
-
Berlin Crisis
1961
- Diem assassinated
1961
-
OPEC
formed
1962
-
Trade Expansion Act
1962
-
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
- Baker v. Carr
1962
- Engel v. Vitale
1962
- Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
1963
-
John F. Kennedy
assassinated
1963
-
Lyndon Johnson
becomes President
1963
-
Atomic Test Ban Treaty[?]
1963
-
March on Washington[?]
;
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"
I have a dream
" speech
1964
- Tonkin Gulf incident;
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964
-
War Powers Act[?]
1964
-
24th Amendment
1964
-
Great Society
proposed
1964
-
Economic Opportunity Act[?]
1964
-
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964
-
Full Employment Act
1965
-
Immigration Act of 1965[?]
1965
-
Voting Rights Act
1965
-
Medicaid
and
Medicare
enacted
1965
- Higher Education Act - Federal Scholarships
1965
-
Watts race riot[?]
;
Detroit race riot[?]
; "
long hot summer[?]
"
1966
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) established
1966
- Department of Transportation created
1966
- National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act
1966
- Miranda v. Arizona
1966
- National Organization for Women (NOW) formed
1967
-
25th Amendment
1968
- Robert Kennedy assassinated
1968
- Viet Cong launch
Tet Offensive
1968
-
Civil Rights Act of 1968[?]
1969
-
Richard Nixon
becomes President
1969
- "
Vietnamization[?]
" begins
1969
- Armstrong walks on the moon
1969
- conservative Warren E. Burger appointed Chief Justice to replace Earl Warren
1969
- U.S. bombs North Vietnamese positions in Cambodia and Laos
1930-1949
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