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Warsaw Pact
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Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Her Seat
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"In God We Trust" Adopted as National Motto
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Election of 1956
President Dwight D. Eisenhower Re-elected, Vice President Richard Nixon Re-elected -
Little Rock, Arkansas Schools Desegregated
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
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Sputnik 1 Launched
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NASA Formed
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Cuban Revolution Concludes
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Alaska Admitted to the Union
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Hawaii Admitted to the Union
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Civil Rights Act of 1960
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Election of 1960
John F. Kennedy elected as President, Lyndon B. Johnson elected as Vice President. -
United States Breaks Relations with Cuba
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23rd Amendment Ratified
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Period: to
Cuban Missile Crisis
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Atomic Test Ban Treaty
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President Kennedy Assassinated, Succeeded by Lyndon B. Johnson
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Election of 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson elected for full term, Hubert H. Humphrey elected Vice President -
24th Amendment Ratified
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
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25th Amendment Ratified
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Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Signed
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Election of 1968
Richard Nixon elected president, Spiro T. Agnew elected Vice President -
Beginning of Vietnamization
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Walk on the Moon During the Apollo 11 Mission
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United States Bombs Cambodia and Laos
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26th Amendment Ratified
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Watergate Scandal
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Election of 1972
Richard Nixon re-elected as President, Spiro T. Agnew re-elected as Vice President -
Roe v. Wade
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Paris Peace Accords
End of direct US military involvement in Vietnam. -
Skylab Launched
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House Judiciary Committee Votes to Impeach President Nixon
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Richard Nixon Resigns
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Vietnam War Ends