Cold War
1945-1989
Baby Boom
Late 1940s-1950s
Korean War
1950-1953
McCarthyism
1950s
Second Red Scare
1950s
Murder of Emmit Till
1954
Bus Boycott in Montgomery AL
1955
Little Rock Nine
1957
Sputnik Launched
1957
Cuban Revolution
1959
Election of 1960; Kennedy vs Nixon
1960
Bay of Pigs; Berlin Wall
1961
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Civil Rights March on Washington
1963
Civil Rights Act of ___
1964
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1964
Vietnam War
1965-1975
Forming of Black Panther Party
1966
Women’s Liberation Movement
1960s-1970s
Counterculture Movements
1960s
Tet Offensive; Martin Luther King Jr Assassinated; Robert Kennedy Assassinated; Violence at Democratic Convention Riot
1968
Watergate Scandal
1972
Roe v. Wade
1973