The event that brought Lyndon Johnson into the Presidency.
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
100
The first American to orbit Earth.
John Glenn
100
Reform that provided billions of dollars to schools in need.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act
100
Reform act designed to provide food to those in need.
Food Stamp Act
200
The agreement between the United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain to halt all atmospheric and underwater nuclear testing.
Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty
200
Law passed that prevented discrimination based on race, gender, or religion.
Civil Rights Act 1964
200
Crises that developed in Germany that ultimately led to the division of its capital city between the Soviet Union and the West.
Berlin Crisis
200
Leader in Cuba whose coup led to several confrontations between the United States.
Fidel Castro
200
Congressional act that ended discriminatory voting practices.
Voting Rights Act 1964
300
Great Society program deigned to provide healthcare to those who could not otherwise afford it.
Medicare
300
Policy designed to give the United States multiple options in dealing with Communist expansion.
Flexible response
300
Program designed to provide health coverage to our nation's elderly.
Medicaid
300
Physical division built in the capital of Germany to divide the city, and prevent citizens from escaping to the West.
Berlin Wall
300
Federal agency created in 1964 to direct Johnson's war on poverty.
Office of Economic Opportunity
400
Congressional committee created to investigate the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Warren Commission
400
Program designed to rebuild rundown areas of American cities.
urban renewal
400
Reform program in 1964 designed to fight poverty and end racial injustice.
Great Society Program
400
Volunteer organization formed to provide help to developing countries.
Peace Corps
400
President Kennedy's aid program for Latin American countries.
Alliance for Progress
500
John F. Kennedy's failed attempt to remove Fidel Castro from power.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
500
Reform program introduced in the early 1960s that suggested grand domestic reforms, but was largely unsuccessful.
New Frontier Program
500
Crisis that developed between the Soviet Union and the United States that sparked fear of nuclear confrontation.
Cuban Missile Crisis
500
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States whose rulings led to increased protections for the rights of the accused, and led to charges of judicial activism.
Earl Warren
500
Leader of the Soviet Union, whose actions led the United States (and the world) to the brink of nuclear conflict.