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Plessy v. Ferguson
This court case was the deciding factor of the segregated facilities and how they could all use the same bathroom and water fountains or that the bathrooms would be separate but equal. Because of this case the Jim Crow Laws were later established. -
Jackie Robinson Joins Dodgers
Jackie Robinson Joins the Brooklyn Dodgers. Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson, setting the stage for Robinson to break Major League Baseball's color barrier. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This United States Supreme court case was the decision that America would establish laws for racial segregation in schools and that they were equal. This court case was a big civil rights movement. -
TV Companies Start Broadcasting in Color
The very first color broadcast on a Television show for the channel NBC. This wasn't the first time it was introduced but not many people knew about it. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat
Rosa Parks would not give her spot to a white man who asked her to move because the blacks sat in the back and not the front. She sat in the front because the Ban on Segregation had just been put into effect for the bus companies and she was fined and arrested for not giving up her seat -
Desegregation with 9 African Americans going to Central High School
Also nown as Little Rock Nine this event was a massive change in the civil rights act 9 black students where going to an all white school. This was one reason why segragation ended was because of these nine people who risked it and enrolled into an all white school. -
Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act was the end of segregation in the long run but the white people still were racist to them and they didn't care about the bill that was signed but the bill still did not help. -
Explorer 1
the first satellite with an on board telemetry system, is launched by the United States into orbit aboard a Juno rocket and returns data from space. -
NASA Formed
National Astronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was formed to have part in the space race against Russia and America wanted to be the first in everything but America was falling behind because Russia put the first probe in space and animal and human into space and buy the end of the decade 1969 America put the first man on the moon. -
Alaska Became Part of The United States
Russia sold Alaska to the US. for their safety, It took years and a lot of persuasion but they sold it successfully for the Price of $7,200,000. -
Hawaii Becomes State
The US claimed that they needed more power such as: more military positions in Pearl Harbor. -
SNCC formed
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was one of the major American Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s. It emerged from the first wave of student sit-ins and formed at a May 1960 meeting organized by Ella Baker at Shaw University. -
SDS Formed
Students for a Democratic Society was a national student activist organization in the United States that was one of the main representations of the New Left. -
Beatles Mania
It was a fan frenzy that was directed toward the Beatles. It happened all through the 60s till they broke up. -
Peace Corps
The mission is to provide social and economic development abroad through technical assistance, while promoting mutual understanding between Americans and populations served. -
First Man in Space
aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored rebel group -
First American to travel to space
Alan Shepard Jr. Was the first American man to travel into outer space. He traveled into the galaxy in a spacecraft called the Freedom 7 spacecraft. The point of this project was to attempt to bring an astronaut into orbit around the Earth. -
John Glenn first to Orbit Earth
John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth in the Friendship 7 mission. With this mission he was also the 5th human in space and also the third American in space. -
Marilyn Monroe Dies
She was found dead in her bedroom dead at age 36. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis happened when America found out that the Soviet Union had been building missile silos in Cuba. This crisis lasted 13 days as America was trying to make them stop building missile silos in Cuba -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, which prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground. -
John Kennedy Assassinated
JFK was the 35th president of the United States and was assassinated at 12:30 pm central time in Dallas, Texas. He was in his motorcade going through Dealey Plaza when he was shot at. -
24th Amendment
Ends poll taxes -
Gulf of Tonkin
The USS Maddox is on spy patrol 30 miles off the coast of Vietnam when it reports an attack by three enemy vessels. Another U.S. ship reports an attack on Aug 4. On Aug 7, Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing Pres. Johnson to wage war against North Vietnam without a formal Declaration of War. -
Economic Opportunity Act
Authorized the formation of local Community Action Agencies as part of the War on Poverty. It also regulated the Federal Government -
Water Quality Act
This act is a federal law that restricts putting pollutants into the water systems and oceans. It is also to maintain and restore chemical, physical, biological integrity of the nations water systems -
Immigration and Nationality act
It was a radical break from the immigration policies of the past. Previous laws restricted immigration from Asia and Africa, and gave preference to northern and western Europeans over southern and eastern Europeans -
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
This act gave funding to all the schools over the nation. It gave most of the money to schools that had low-income families in it -
Malcolm X Killed
Malcolm X was a human rights activist and was killed in the Audubon Ballroom -
Rolling Thunder
Johnson approves Rolling Thunder in February, believing that a program of limited bombing in North Vietnam will deter support for Vietcong. Rolling Thunder continues for three years and eight months, involving 305,380 raids and 634,000 tons of bombs. Results include: 818 pilots killed and hundreds more captured; 182,000 civilians killed in North Vietnam. -
Blood Sunday
State troopers violently attack peaceful demonstrators led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Martin Luther King Jr Wins Nobel Peace Prize
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. -
National traffic and motor safety act
This act would give the automobile industry a different way that they had to build their cars because they had to put safety devices in their cars and had to build them a certain way. -
Medicare
It is a national health insurance program in the United States, under the Social Security Administration and now administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but it provides health insurance for Americans aged 65 and older, younger people with some disability status as determined by the Social Security Administration. -
Star Trek Debuts
For next three years, science fiction program goes where no TV series has gone before. -
Black Panthers
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. -
Clean Water Restoration Act
It provided federal funds for the construction of sewage treatment plants. This act and others that followed over the next decade had a significant impact in reducing pollution and restoring rivers. -
First Super Bowl
Forty million TV viewers watch the Green Bay Packers beat the Kansas City Chiefs. -
Apollo 1
All of a sudden the cabin caught on fire that killed the entire crew during a pre-launch test. The fire set back the Apollo missions -
Thurgood Marshall
First African American to be on the United States Supreme Court -
Tet offensive
The Tet offensive was a series of attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. It was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War. -
My Lai Massacre
Was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam -
Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated
King was a civil right activist and gave his "I Have a Dream" speech
and was killed on his balcony of his hotel -
Robert Kennedy Shot
He got shot then later died in Los Angeles -
Apollo 8
This was the first mission to the moon Apollo 8 did 10 orbits around the moon scoping out the surface of the moon. -
Tinker v. Des Moines School District
This case would allow students to use the first amendment in schools. They could say what they wanted and they had a freedom in school that they did not have before. -
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin Were the first men on the Moon
Apollo 11 launch from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969 and on July 24 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon in their Lunar Module Eagle almost running out of fuel to get to lunar surface. -
Woodstock
An estimated audience of over 400,000 people gather for three days of music. Swarming across the pastures of Max Yasgur's dairy farm. Only 186,000 tickets are sold, so around 200,000 people are expected. On opening night, sponsors declare free admission to all, and the word spreads like wildfire. Police estimate a million more people trying to reach Woodstock are stuck in traffic jams up to 50 miles away. In rain and mud, thousands listen. The final cost is $2.4 million. -
Apollo 12
Apollo 12 was the second lunar landing mission. During launch the Saturn V vertical was struck by lightning. -
SALT 1
The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks begin negotiations to curb nuclear capabilities of U.S. and USSR. -
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 launched from Pad 39A. Five and a half minutes after launch there was a center engine cutoff 2 minutes early. At 55 hours and 55 minutes an oxygen tank had blown up and caused all of their systems to fail in the Command Service Module. -
Kent State Shootings
The Kent State Shootings happened on unarmed college kids by the Ohio National Guard. It happened during a mass protest against the Cambodia Bombing -
EPA Created
The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection. -
Apollo 14
Third mission to the moon, Most of the stuff they did was televised when it happened and this was the first time everything was televised. -
26th Amendment
The 26th Amendment gave 18 year olds the right to vote. They ratified that act because the 18 year olds could fight in wars but they could not vote for their political part. -
Apollo 15
This mission was the first to have used to lunar rover to move across the surface of the moon. -
Apollo 17
The last moon landing that has happened. It was to get older and younger rocks -
Paris Peace Accords
The Paris Peace Accords was the final say in ending the war and making peace happen in Vietnam. The agreement was made between the United States and Vietnam. -
War Powers Act
A federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.
