1950 - U.S. recognizes Vietnam
- McCarthy Hearings begin
- Communists in U.S. must register
- U.S. bars trade with Communist China
- Korean war starts, North Invades South – UN intervenes (USSR absent from Security Council)
1951 - 22nd Amendment, prohibiting more than two presidential terms
- Rosenburgs found guilty, sentenced to death (executed in 1953)
- Truman relieves MacArthur of command in Korea – DM returns in triumph, talk of impeachment… “Old soldiers never die… they just fade away”… and he did.
- Churchill again elected P.M. of Britain
1952 - King George VI dies; Elizabeth becomes Queen
- Eisenhower and Nixon elected President and Vice President
1953 - U.S. provides military aid to France to suppress Vietnam freedom fighters
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education
1955 - U.S. begins economic aid to South Vietnam
- Montgomery Bus Boycott; Martin Luther King becomes prominent.
- Women ordained in Presbyterian Church
- Churchill resigns as British P.M.
- U.S. Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation of schools
1956 - Eisenhower and Nixon re-elected.
- Anti-Communist revolution in Hungary brutally suppressed by Soviet troops.
1957 - Gov. Faubus of Arkansas uses National Guard troops to prevent de-segregation of Little Rock High School. DDE federalizes troops and forces de-segregation.
- Congress passes Civil Rights act prohibiting discrimination in public. Nevertheless continued resistance to integration in South.
1958 - First Xerox machine
- Soviets launch “Sputnik”
- First trans-Atlantic jet passenger service.
- DDE sends U.S. Marines to Lebanon to suppress Arab nationalists.
1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become state
- Castro comes to power in Cuba
- Khruschev visits U.S.
1960 - Lunch counter sit ins begin in South (beginning of “Civil Rights Movement”
- Castro confiscates U.S. property in Cuba; U.S. begins embargo
- Soviets launch dogs and mice into space and bring them back alive.
- Kennedy and Johnson elected President and Vice President
1961 - US INCREASES INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM
- U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
- U.S. supports abortive “Bay of Pigs” invasion of Cuba
- JFK institutes the Peace Corps
- Berlin Wall constructed
- CORE attempts to desegregate interstate bus lines
- Black Muslims advocate black power and separation of races
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Military coup (with U.S. approval) overthrows Diem in Vietnam
1963 - KENNEDY ASSASSINATED
- Oswald shot by Jack Ruby – country “stunned” Lyndon Johnson becomes President.
- Medgar Evers – NAACP worker is killed
- France vetoes British entry into Common Market
- U.S. Nuclear submarine with 129 aboard is lost in Atlantic
1964 - Johnson defeats Republican Goldwater and remains President –Goldwater only got 52 electoral votes, perceived as a war hawk.
- U.S. Destroyer allegedly attacked in Gulf of Tonkin. Congress resolves that President Johnson given authority to use all power to repel attacks on U.S. forces… this resolution formed basis for massive escalation of U.S. military action in Vietnam without declaration of war.
1965 - Massive escalation of U.S. military effort, combined with nightly TV coverage of war and opposition of liberal news media. Anti war demonstrations become wide spread
- Race Riots in Watts area of L.A.
- 5 million color TV’s
- Malcolm X is shot and killed
1966 - More race riots in many major cities
- African American Edward Brooke is elected U.S. Senator from Mass.
1967 - More race riots
- Vietnam war continues to escalate
- Thurgood Marshall becomes first African American on U.S. Supreme Court.
- First heart transplant
- Black mayors are elected in Cleveland, Ohio and Gary, Indiana.
1968 - Tet Offensive
- MLK assassinated
- RFK assassinated
- Nixon defeats Humphrey and becomes President
- US Submarine sinks, 99 die.
1969 - U.S. - Vietnam peace talks star
- 400,000 people attend “Woodstock”
- My Lai massacre – Lt. Calley convicted in 1971
- Golda Meir becomes Prime Minister of Israel
- Yale, Bowdoin and Colgate admit women
1970 - Martial Law in Canada because of Quebec separatists attacks
- 448 Universities and colleges closed or on strike in protest against war
- Nixon names two women generals
1971 - Constitutional Amendment (26) lowering voting age to 18
1973 - VIETNAM WAR ENDS- NIXON RESIGNS
1980 - SOME OF CLASS NOW BORN
1992 - CLINTON ELECTED President,
2000 - DISPUTED ELECTION OF 2000 - George Bush BECOMES PRESIDENT
(http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/1900_2000_timeline.htm)
- McCarthy Hearings begin
- Communists in U.S. must register
- U.S. bars trade with Communist China
- Korean war starts, North Invades South – UN intervenes (USSR absent from Security Council)
1951 - 22nd Amendment, prohibiting more than two presidential terms
- Rosenburgs found guilty, sentenced to death (executed in 1953)
- Truman relieves MacArthur of command in Korea – DM returns in triumph, talk of impeachment… “Old soldiers never die… they just fade away”… and he did.
- Churchill again elected P.M. of Britain
1952 - King George VI dies; Elizabeth becomes Queen
- Eisenhower and Nixon elected President and Vice President
1953 - U.S. provides military aid to France to suppress Vietnam freedom fighters
1954 - Brown v. Board of Education
1955 - U.S. begins economic aid to South Vietnam
- Montgomery Bus Boycott; Martin Luther King becomes prominent.
- Women ordained in Presbyterian Church
- Churchill resigns as British P.M.
- U.S. Supreme Court orders immediate desegregation of schools
1956 - Eisenhower and Nixon re-elected.
- Anti-Communist revolution in Hungary brutally suppressed by Soviet troops.
1957 - Gov. Faubus of Arkansas uses National Guard troops to prevent de-segregation of Little Rock High School. DDE federalizes troops and forces de-segregation.
- Congress passes Civil Rights act prohibiting discrimination in public. Nevertheless continued resistance to integration in South.
1958 - First Xerox machine
- Soviets launch “Sputnik”
- First trans-Atlantic jet passenger service.
- DDE sends U.S. Marines to Lebanon to suppress Arab nationalists.
1959 - Alaska and Hawaii become state
- Castro comes to power in Cuba
- Khruschev visits U.S.
1960 - Lunch counter sit ins begin in South (beginning of “Civil Rights Movement”
- Castro confiscates U.S. property in Cuba; U.S. begins embargo
- Soviets launch dogs and mice into space and bring them back alive.
- Kennedy and Johnson elected President and Vice President
1961 - US INCREASES INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM
- U.S. breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
- U.S. supports abortive “Bay of Pigs” invasion of Cuba
- JFK institutes the Peace Corps
- Berlin Wall constructed
- CORE attempts to desegregate interstate bus lines
- Black Muslims advocate black power and separation of races
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Military coup (with U.S. approval) overthrows Diem in Vietnam
1963 - KENNEDY ASSASSINATED
- Oswald shot by Jack Ruby – country “stunned” Lyndon Johnson becomes President.
- Medgar Evers – NAACP worker is killed
- France vetoes British entry into Common Market
- U.S. Nuclear submarine with 129 aboard is lost in Atlantic
1964 - Johnson defeats Republican Goldwater and remains President –Goldwater only got 52 electoral votes, perceived as a war hawk.
- U.S. Destroyer allegedly attacked in Gulf of Tonkin. Congress resolves that President Johnson given authority to use all power to repel attacks on U.S. forces… this resolution formed basis for massive escalation of U.S. military action in Vietnam without declaration of war.
1965 - Massive escalation of U.S. military effort, combined with nightly TV coverage of war and opposition of liberal news media. Anti war demonstrations become wide spread
- Race Riots in Watts area of L.A.
- 5 million color TV’s
- Malcolm X is shot and killed
1966 - More race riots in many major cities
- African American Edward Brooke is elected U.S. Senator from Mass.
1967 - More race riots
- Vietnam war continues to escalate
- Thurgood Marshall becomes first African American on U.S. Supreme Court.
- First heart transplant
- Black mayors are elected in Cleveland, Ohio and Gary, Indiana.
1968 - Tet Offensive
- MLK assassinated
- RFK assassinated
- Nixon defeats Humphrey and becomes President
- US Submarine sinks, 99 die.
1969 - U.S. - Vietnam peace talks star
- 400,000 people attend “Woodstock”
- My Lai massacre – Lt. Calley convicted in 1971
- Golda Meir becomes Prime Minister of Israel
- Yale, Bowdoin and Colgate admit women
1970 - Martial Law in Canada because of Quebec separatists attacks
- 448 Universities and colleges closed or on strike in protest against war
- Nixon names two women generals
1971 - Constitutional Amendment (26) lowering voting age to 18
1973 - VIETNAM WAR ENDS- NIXON RESIGNS
1980 - SOME OF CLASS NOW BORN
1992 - CLINTON ELECTED President,
2000 - DISPUTED ELECTION OF 2000 - George Bush BECOMES PRESIDENT
(http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/a_us_history/1900_2000_timeline.htm)