The Cold War

• 1947: The Truman Doctrine.
• 1949: NATO Treaty signed.
• 1950: Korean War begins.
• 1953: Armistice ends fighting in the Korean War.
• 1954: Brown vs. Board of Education.
• 1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1961: Bay of Pigs invasion.
• 1962: Cuban Missle Crisis.
• 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Vietnam War Chronology
  • Civil Rights Act.
• 1965: President Johnson begins escalation of US role in Vietnamese Civil War.
  • Medicare Act.
  • Clean Air Act.
  • Immigration Act of 1965
• 1965-1967: Riots in black ghettos
• 1966: National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded.
• 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
• 1969: Astronauts land on the moon.
• 1972: US withdraws from Vietnam. Vietnam War Chronology
• 1973: Roe vs. Wade
• 1989: The Fall of the Berlin Wall.
  • The US Invades Panama
• 1991: Formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

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