33-end Flashcards
emergency banking relief act
1933
hundred days congress enacts aaa, tva, holc, nra, and pwa
1933
cwa est
1933
us recognizes su
1933
glass steagall banking reform act
1933
20th amendment
1933
21st amendment
1933
securities and exchange commission authorized
1934
indian reorganization act
1934
wpa est
1935
cio organized
1935
schechter “sick children” case
1935
social security act
1935
second aaa
1938
reorganization act
1939
hatch act
1939
fed securities act
1933
good neighbor policy
1933
us marines vacate haiti
1934
panay incident
1937
munich conference
1938
wwii beings in europe with hitler’s invasion of poland
1939
us invokes 1st peacetime draft
1940
havana conference
1940
bases-for-destroyers deal with brit
1940
lend-lease act
1941
atlantic charter
1941
japan attacks pearl harbor
1941
us declares war on japan
1941
germ declares war on us
1941
randolph plans black march on washington
1941
fair employment practices commission (fepc) est
1941
roosevelt delivers “4 freedoms” speech
1941
japanese ams sent to internment camps
1942
japan conquers philippines
1942
battle of the midway
1942
us invades north africa
1942
congress of racial equality (core) founded
1942
casablanca conference
1943
allies invade italy
1943
smith connally anti strike act
1943
“zoot suit” riots in los angeles
1943
race riots in detroit
1943
tehran conference
1943
korematsu vs us
1944
d day invasion of france
1944
battle of the bulge
1944-1945
roosevelt dies
1945
germ surrenders
1945
battles of iwo jima and okinawa
1945
potsdam conference
1945
atomic bombs dropped
1945
yalta conference
1945
japan surrenders
1945
servicemen’s readjustment act (gi bill)
1944
bretton woods econ conference
1944
the common sense book of body and child care published by spock
1945
us sends lend lease to su
1945
un est
1945
nuremberg war crimes trial in germ
1945-1946
employment act creates council of econ advisers
1946
iran crisis
1946
kennan’s “long telegram” lays out containment doctrine
1946
tokyo war crimes trials
1946-1948
truman doctrine
1947
marshall plan
1947
taft hartley act
1947
national security act creates department of defense, nsc, and cia
1947
israel founded; us recognizes it
1948
alger hiss case begins
1948
berlin blockade
1948-1949
nato est
1949
communists defeat nationalists in china
1949
soviets explode their first atomic bomb
1949
am econ experiences postwar growth
1950
mccarthy red hunt begins
1950
mccarran international security bill passed by congress over truman’s veto
1950
korean war
1950-1953
truman fires macarthur
1951
rosenbergs convicted of treason
1951
us explodes 1st h bomb
1952
postwar peak of us birthrate
1957
us birthrate falls below replacement level
1973
invisible man published
1952
cia engineered coup installs shrah of iran
1953
stalin dies
1953
army mccarthy hearings
1954
brown vs board of education
1954
seato formed
1954
cia sponsored coupin guatemala
1954
montgomery bus boycott begins; emergence of mlk
1955
geneva summit meeting on vietnam
1955
warsaw pact signed
1955
af of l merges with cio
1955
suez crisis
1956
little rock school desegregation crisis
1957
civil rights act passed
1957
sclc formed
1957
eisenhower doctrine
1957
su launches sputnik satellites
1957
us troops sent to lebanon
1958
ndea authorizes loans and grants for science and language education
1958
the affluent society published
1958
berlin crisis
1958-1959
castro seizes power in cuba
1959
landrum griffin act
1959
alaska and hawaii attain statehood
1959
sit in movement for civil rights begins
1960
u2 incident sabotages paris summit
1960
opec formed
1960
european econ community (eec, common market) created by treaty of rome
1957
berlin wall built
1961
alliance for progress
1961
bay of pigs invasion
1961
kennedy sends “military advisers” to south vietnam
1961
pressure from kennedy results in rollback of steel prices
1962
trade expansion act
1962
laos neutralized
1962
cuban missile crisis
1962
france vetoes brit membership in eec
1963
anti-diem coup in south vietnam
1963
civil rights march in dc
1963
kennedy assassinated
1963
24th amendment
1964
“freedom summer” voter registration in south
1964
gulf of tonkin restoration
1964
war on poverty begins
1964
civil rights act
1964
great society legislation
1965
voting rights act
1965
us troops occupy dominican repub
1965
race riots in us cities
1965-1968
france withdraws from nato
1966
6 day war bt israel and egypt
1967
tet offensive
1968
worldwide protests
1968
mlk and robert kennedy assassinated
1968
prague spring crushed by su army
1968
stonewall inn riot in nyc
1969
astronauts land on moon
1969
my lai massacre
1968
nixon orders invasion of cambodia
1970
kent state and jackson state incidents
1970
epa created
1970
clean air act
1970
pentagon papers published
1971
26th amendment
1972
nixon visits china and su
1972
shanghai communique begins “normalization” of us china relations
1972
abm and salt treaties ratified
1972
equal rights amendment passes congress (not ratified by states)
1972
title IX
1972
treaty of paris enacts cease-fire in vietnam and us withdrawal
1973
agnew resigns; ford appointed vp
1973
war powers act
1973
yom kippur war
1973
opec oil embargo
1973
endangered species act
1973
chilean pres salvador allende killed in cia backed coup
1973
frontiero vs richardson
1973
roe vs wade
1973
watergate hearings and investigations
1973-1974
nixon resigns
1974
opec ends embargo, increases oil prices
1974
international energy agency formed
1974
milliken vs bradley
1974
helsinki records
1975
south vietnam falls to communists
1975
camp david accords bt egypt and israel
1978
us vs wheeler
1978
iranian revolt and oil crisis
1979
salt ii agreements signed (never ratified by senate)
1979
su invades afghanistan
1979
iranian hostage crisi
1979-1981
us boycotts summer olympics in moscow
1980
iran releases am hostages
1980
“reaganomics” spending and tax cuts passed
1981
o’connor appointed to supreme court
1981
recession hits us econ
1982
reagan announces sdi plan (star wars)
1983
us invasion of grenada
1983
su boycotts summer olympics in los angeles
1984
gorbachev comes to power in su, announces glasnost and perestroika
1985
1st reagan gorbachev summit meeting in geneva
1985
iran contra affair revealed
1986
2nd reagan-gorbechev meeting in reyjavik
1986
us naval escorts begin in persian gulf
1987
senate rejects supreme court nom of robert bork
1987
stock market plunges 508 points
1987
3rd reagan gorbachev meeting in dc; inf treaty signed
1987
4th reagan gorbachev meeting in moscow
1988
webster vs reproductive health services
1989
eastern euro countries oust communist govs
1989
berlin wall torn down
1989
east and west germ unite
1990
ams with disabilities act (ada)
1990
persian gulf war
1991
thomas appointed to supreme court
1991
gorbachev survives coup attempt, resigns and pres
1991
su dissolves; repubs form commonwealth of independent states
1991
27th amendment
1992
panned parenthood vs casey
1992
nafta signed
1993
repubs win majority in both houses
1994
welfare reform bill becomes law
1996
clinton-lewinsky scandal
1998
us and brit launch military service against iraq
1998
house of rep impeaches clinton
1998
senate acquits clinton on impeachment charges
1999
us normalizes trade relations with china
2000
terrorists attack nyc and dc
2001
us invades afghanistan
2001
usa patriot act passed
2001
energy trader enron collapses amid accounting scandals
2001
no child left behind act
2002
congress authorizes use of force against iraq
2002
un security council demands that iraq comply with weapons inspections
2002
us invades iraq
2003
bush signs drug prescription bill for seniors
2003
saddam hussein captured in iraq
2003
supreme court narrowly confirms affirmative action
2003
iraqi interim gov installed
2004
gay marriage controversy erupts
2004
saddam hussein executed
2006
us troop surge in iraq
2007