Timeline and Terms

Events

A Raisin in the Sun
Alaska became a state
Army-McCarthy hearings
Atoms for Peace plan
Baghdad Pact
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board reaffirmed
Catcher in the Rye
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Dennis et al. v. United States
Department of Health, Education and Welfare created
Dwight D. Eisenhower elected
Dwight D. Eisenhower re-elected
Earl Warren appointed chief justice
Eisenhower Doctrine
Federal Highway Act
Federal troops sent to Little Rock
Fidel Castro took power in Cuba
First Levittown
First “fast food” restaurant
Geneva Agreement
Hawaii became a state
Hydrogen bomb test
Internal Security Act of 1950
Korean War
NASA established
National Defense Education Act
NSC-68
Nuclear test moratorium
Rosa Parks arrested
Rosenbergs arrested
Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded
Southern Manifesto
Sputnik I
Termination policy for American Indians
Twenty-second Amendment
Warsaw Pact

People

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Earl Warren
Fidel Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Harry S. Truman
Herbert Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover
John F. Kennedy
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nikita Khrushchev
Norman Vincent Peale
Robert F. Kennedy
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall

Places

fallout shelter
Levittown

Organizations

Beats
Little Rock Nine
Mattachine Society