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