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Timeline 1946-1974

Presidents

Harry S. Truman

1945 - 1953

1.Democrat
2. V.P. Alben Barkley

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1953 - 1961

1.Republican
2. V.P. Richard Nixon

John R. Kennedy

1961 - 1963

1.Democrat
2. V.P. Lyndon B. Johnson
3.Assassinated

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963 - 1969

1.Democrat
2. V.P. Hubert Humphrey

Richard M. Nixon

1969 - 1974

1.Republican
2.V.P. Spiro Agnew and Gerald R. Ford

Gerald R. Ford

1974 - 1977

1.Republican
2.V.P. Nelson Rockefeller

Senate

Democrats

1945 - 1947

Total:96
Dems: 57
Reps: 38

Republicans

1947 - 1949

Total:96
Dems: 45
Reps:51

Democrats

1949 - 1953

Republicans

1953 - 1955

Total:96
Dems: 46
Reps:48
Others:2

Democrats

1955 - 1981

World Events

(relevant to U.S.)

Cold War begins

1946

British and French Empires fracture into new 3rd World Nations

1947 - 1977

Truman Doctrine

1947

U.S. contains spread of Communism

1947 - 1990

China falls to Communism

1948

NATO Formed

1948

Korean War

1950 - 1953

U.S. and China clash in Korea

1950

Geneva Accords

1954

SEATO forms

1954

Suez Canal Crisis

1956

Eisenhower Doctrine

1957

Berlin Wall

1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

1964

Tet Offensive

1968

U.S. invades Cambodia

1970

Paris Peace Accords

1973

Technology

Bikini Swimsuit

1946

1.Louis Reard

Computer ENIAC

1946

1.John Mauchly and J. P. Eckert

Instant Photography

1947

1.Edwin Land

Kitty Litter

1947

1.Ed Lowe

Transistor

1947

J. Bardeen, W. Brattain and W. Shockley

Velcro

1948

1.George de Mestral

"PEANUTS"

1950

Charles Schulz

Liquid Paper

1951

Bette Nesmith Graham

Mr. Potato Head

1952

George Lerner

Geodesic Dome

1954

R. Buckminster Fuller

Milk Carton

1954

John Van Wormer

Salk develops polio vaccine

1954

U.S.Nautilus 1st nuclear submarine

1954

Play-Doh

1956

Noah and Joseph McVicker

TV Remote Control

1956

Robert Adler

USSR Launches Sputnik

1957

Laser

1958

Arthur Schawlow&CharlesTownes

Video Game

1958

William Higinbotham

Lava Lamp

1963

Edward Craven Walker

Smiley Face

1964

Harvey Ball

Kevlar

1965

Stephanie Kwolek

Hand-held Calculator

1966

Jack Kilby, J. VanTassel & J. Merryman

Computer Mouse

1968

Douglas Engelbart

Microprocessor

1968

Ted Hoff

eBooks

1971

Michael Hart

Magnavox Odyssey

1972

Ralph Baer

Internet

1973

Vinton Cerf

Post-it Notes

1974

Art Fry and Spencer Silver

Rubik's Cube

1974

Erno Rubik

Society & Culture

Marshall Plan

1947

Communism killed in U.S.

1948 - 1954

AFL and CIO merge

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycotts

1955

Civil Rights Movement

1960 - 1965

Freedom Riders

1961

Kennedy launches Apollo project; man lands on moon

1961 - 1969

Peace Corps

1961

Kennedy Assassinated

1963

Demonstrations against Vietnam War

1965 - 1970

Hippie Movement

1966 - 1969

Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated

1968

Woodstock Festival

1969

EPA formed

1970

Nixon Resigns over Watergate

1973 - 1974

War Powers Act

1973

House of Representatives

Democrats

1945 - 1947

Republicans

1947 - 1949

Democrats

1949 - 1953

Republicans

1953 - 1955

Democrats

1955 - 1995

Legislation

Everson v. Board of Education

1947

Taft-Hartley Act

1947

Alger Hiss is Communist

1948 - 1950

  1. Whittaker Chambers 2.Hung Jury

Dennis v. United States

1951

Rosenberg Trial

1951 - 1953

  1. Spies for the USSR

Brown v. Board of Education

1954

Brown 11

1955

Interstate Highway Act

1956

Watkins v. United States

1957

Yates v. United States

1957

Cooper v. Aaron

1958

  1. Faubu's actions violate constitution

Mapp v. Ohio

1961

Baker v. Carr

1962

Engel v. Vitale

1962

Gideon v. Wainwright

1963

24th Amendment

1964

-outlawing of poll taxes

Civil Rights Act of 1964

1964

Immigration and Nationality Act

1965

Voting Rights Act

1965

Miranda v. Arizona

1966

Clean Air Act

1970

Nixon signs extension to Voting Rights Act

1970

New York Times v. United States

1971

Barbara Jordan and Andrew Young 1st African Americans elected to Congress

1972

Endangered Species Act

1973

Roe v. Wade

1973

United States v. Nixon

1974