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1950–1969
Pacific
hurricane
seasons&o=10616
1950–1969 Pacific hurricane seasons&o=10616
Timeline of United States history (1950–1969)
This section of the
Timeline of United States history
concerns events from
1950 to 1969
.
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 comments about using nuclear weapons on China
1952 -
ANZUS Treaty
enters into force
1952 -
Immigration and Nationality Act
1952 -
United States presidential election, 1952
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 - The
CIA
organises the overthrow of
Guatemala
's democratically elected president
Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán
(
Operation PBSUCCESS
)
1954 -
Saint Lawrence Seaway Act
1954 -
Baghdad Pact
1954 -
Brown v. Board of Education
1954 -
SEATO
alliance
1954 -
Fall of Dien Bien Phu
; End of French rule in
Indochina
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
1955 -
Jonas Salk
develops
polio vaccine
1956 -
Interstate Highway
Act
1956 - US refuses to support the
Hungarian Revolution
1956 -
United States presidential election, 1956
1957 -
Eisenhower Doctrine
1957 -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
1957 - Soviets 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
1958 - The integrated circuit created
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 -
National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam
formed
1960 -
United States presidential election, 1960
1961 - US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1961 - Eisonhower gives celebrated "Military Industrial Complex" address
1961 -
John F. Kennedy
becomes President
1961 -
23rd Amendment
1961 -
Peace Corps
1961 -
Alliance for Progress
1961 -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961 -
Alan Shepherd
becomes the first American to ride a missile, getting over a hundred miles in altitude.
1961 -
Trade embargo on Cuba
1961 -
Berlin Crisis
1961 -
Vietnam War
officially begins with 900 military advisors landing in
Saigon
1961 -
OPEC
formed
1962 -
Trade Expansion Act
1962 -
John Glenn
orbits the Earth, becoming the first American to do so.
1962 -
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962 -
Baker v. Carr
1962 -
Engel v. Vitale
1962 -
Students for a Democratic Society
(SDS)
1964 -
John F. Kennedy
assassinated
1964 -
Lyndon Johnson
becomes President
1963 -
Atomic Test Ban Treaty
1963 -
March on Washington
;
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"
I have a dream
" speech
1963 -
The Feminine Mystique
published
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
1964 -
Canal Zone riots
1964 -
United States presidential election, 1964
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
1967 -
American Samoa
becomes
self-governing
under new
constitution
1968 -
Martin Luther King Jr.
assassinated
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
1968 - U.S. signs
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1968 -
United States presidential election, 1968
1969 -
Richard Nixon
becomes President
1969 - "
Vietnamization
" begins
1969 -
Stonewall riots
1969 -
Neil Armstrong
walks on the
moon
, Earth's only
natural satellite
1969 -
Warren E. Burger
appointed
Chief Justice of the United States
to replace
Earl Warren
1969 - U.S. bombs North Vietnamese positions in
Cambodia
and
Laos
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