1955-1975

By twslack
  • Minimum Wage Increase

    Minimum Wage increases from .75 cents per hour to 1 dollar
  • Polio Vaccine

    Jonas Salk creates a vaccine for Polio.
  • Disneyland

    Disneyland
    Disneyland is established.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    She incites Montgomery bus Boycott
  • Civil Rights Act 1957

    he goal of the 1957 Civil Rights Act was to ensure that all Americans could exercise their right to vote.
  • NASA Formed

    NASA Formed
    NASA created many jobs for the economy. NASA also selects the first seven military pilots to become the Mercury Seven, the first astronauts of the United States.
  • Alaska and Hawaii enter Statehood

    Alaska and Hawaii enter the United States.
  • J.F.K

    J.F.K
    John F. Kennedy is elected president
  • President Kennedy Assassination

    President Kennedy is assassinated.
  • Vietnam War

    USA enters Vietnam War
  • MLK Assassinated

    Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
  • Man on the Moon

    Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin land on the moon. The U.S. economy spends a lot of money to make this happen.
  • 26th Amendment

    18 year olds can vote.
  • Microsoft

    Bill Gates founded Microsoft, which in time dominated the home computer operating system market.