Postwar Timeline

1950 - 1974

1950

U.S. sends military advisors to Vietnam

1950 - 1953

Korean War

1954

Brown vs. Board of Education

1956

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957

USSR launches Sputnik I satellite 

1960

Presidential election of John F. Kennedy (D) over Richard M. Nixon (R)

1961

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin goes to space

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

Assassination of Medgar Evers

1963

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

1963

Assassination of JFK

1964

Passage of Civil Rights Act

1964

Tonkin Gulf Resolution 

1964

Presidential election of Lyndon B. Johnson (Kennedy's VP)

1965

Assassination of Malcolm X

1965

Bloody Sunday

1965

Passage of Voting Rights Act

1968

Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

1968

Assassination of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy (D)

1968

Presidential election of Richard Nixon (R)

1969

U.S. astronauts land on the moon

1971

New York Times publishes Pentagon Papers

1972

Watergate break in

1972

Reelection of Nixon as President

1973

U.S. withdraws troops from Vietnam

1974

Resignation of Richard Nixon

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