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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
.
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1950s
1950
- Senator
Joseph McCarthy
gains power, and
McCarthyism
(1950-1954) begins
1950
-
McCarran Internal Security Act
1950
-
Korean War
begins
1950
- National Security Council Memo 68
1951
-
22nd Amendment
1951
-
Mutual Security Act
1951
- General
Douglas 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
Korea
1953
-
Shah of Iran
returns to power in
CIA
-orchestrated coup known as
Operation Ajax
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)
1954
- The
People's Republic of China
lays siege on
Quemoy
and
Matsu Islands
; Eisenhower sends in navy
1955
-
Rosa Parks
incites
Montgomery bus boycott
1955
-
AFL
and
CIO
merge in America's largest
labor union
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, Arkansas
school desegregation
1958
-
National Defense Education Act
1958
-
NASA
formed
1959
-
Cuban Revolution
1959
-
Landrum-Griffin Act
1959
-
Alaska
and
Hawaii
become states
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1960s
1960
-
U-2 incident
1960
- Greensboro sit-in
1960
- Civil Rights Act of 1960
1960
-
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam
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
-
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 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
establishes "Miranda rights"
1966
-
Feminist
group
National Organization for Women
(NOW) formed
1967
-
25th Amendment
1968
- Presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy
assassinated
1968
- The
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam
launches the
Tet Offensive
1968
-
Civil Rights Act of 1968
1969
-
Richard Nixon
becomes President
1969
- "
Vietnamization
" begins
1969
-
Neil Armstrong
walks on the
moon
, Earth's only
natural satellite
1969
- Conservative
Warren E. Burger
appointed
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
to replace
Earl Warren
1969
- U.S. bombs North Vietnamese positions in
Cambodia
and
Laos
1930-1949
1950-1969
History of the United States
1970-1989