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Berlin Wall built

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1961

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European Economic Market (EEC) created by Treaty of Rome

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1957

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Alliance for Progress

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1961

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Bay of Pigs invasion

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1961

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Kennedy sent “military advisers” to South Vietnam

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1961

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Pressure from Kennedy results in rollback of steel prices

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1962

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Trade Expansion Act

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1962

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Laos neutralized

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1962

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Cuban Missle crisis

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1962

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France vetoes British membership in EEC

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1963

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Anti-Dien coup in South Vietnam

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1963

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Civil Rights march in Washington D.C

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1963

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Kennedy assassinated, Johnson assumes presidency

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1963

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24th Amendment (no poll tax) ratified

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1964

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“Freedom Summer” voter registration in South

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1964

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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1964

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Johnson defeats Goldwater for presidency

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1964

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War on Poverty begins

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1964

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Civil Rights Act

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1964

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Great Society Legislation

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1965

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Voting Rights Act

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1965

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U.S troops occupy Dominican Republic

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1965

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Race riots in U.S. cities

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1965-1968

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France withdraws from NATO

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1966

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Six Day War between Isreal and Egypt

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1967

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North Vietnamese army launches Tet offensive in South Vietnam

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1968

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Worldwide protests

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1968

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MLK Jr. & Robert Kennedy assasinated

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1968

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Prauge Spring crushed by Soviet army

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1968

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Nixon defeats Humphery and Wallace for presidency

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1968

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Stonewall Inn riot in New York City

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1969

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Astronauts land on moon

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1969

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32
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My Lai Massacre

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1968

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33
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WITCH protests Miss America pageant in Atlantis City

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1968

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Nixon orders invasion of Cambodia

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1970

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Kent State and Jackson State incidents

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1970

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created

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1970

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Clean Air Act

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1970

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Pentagon Papers

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1971

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26th Amendment (voting age 18) padded

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1972

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Nixon visits China and Soviet Union

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1972

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Shanghai Communiqué begins “normalizatiob” of U.S.-Chinese relations

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1972

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ARM and SALT treaties ratified

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1972

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Nixon defeats McGovern for presidency

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1972

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Equal Rights Amendment passes Congress (not ratified by states)

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1972

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Title IX of Education Amendments passed

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1972

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Treaty of Paris enacts cease-fire in Vietbam and U.S. withdrawl

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1973

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Agnew resigns; Ford appointed vice president

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1973

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War Powers Act

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1973

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Yon Kippur War

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1973

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OPEC oil embargo

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1973

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Endangered Species Act

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1973

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Chilean president Allende killed in CIA backed coup

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1973

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Frontiero v. Richardson

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1973

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Roe v. Wade

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1973

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Watergate hearings and investigations

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1973-1974

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Nixon resigns, Ford assumes presidency

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1974

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OPEC ends embargo, increases oil prices

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1974

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Internatiobal Energy Agency formed

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1974

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Milliken v. Bradley

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1974

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Helsinki accords

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1975

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South Vietbam falls to communists

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1975

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Carter defeats Ford for presidency

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1976

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Camp David Accords between Egypt and Isreal

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1978

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United States v. Wheeler

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1978

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Iranian Revolution and oil crisis

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1979

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SALT II agreemebts signed (never ratified by Senate)

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1979

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Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

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1979

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Iranian Hostage crisis

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1979-1981

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U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow

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1980

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Reagan defeats Carter for presidency

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1980

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Iran releases American hostages

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1981

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“Reaganomics” spending & tax cuts passed

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1981

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Solidarity movement in Poland

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1981

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O’Connor appointed to Supreme Court (1st woman)

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1981

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United States aids anti-leftist forces jn Central America

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1981-1991

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Recession hits U.S economy

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1982

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Israel invades Lebanon

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1982

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Reagan announces SDI plan ( ✨Star Wars✨)

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1983

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U.S marines killed in Beirut, Lebanon

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1983

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U.S inavsion of Grenada

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1983

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Reagan defeats Mondale for presidency

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1984

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Soviet Union boycotts Summer Olympics in Los Angeles

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1984

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Gorbachev comes to power in USSR, announces glasnost and perestroika

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1985

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First Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Geneva

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1985

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Reagan administratiob backs Aquino in Philippines

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1986

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Iran-Contra affair

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1986

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Second Reagan-Gorbachev summit meetin in Reykjavik, Iceland

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1986

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Senate rejects Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork

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1987

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U.S naval escorts begin in Persain Gulf

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1987

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Stock market plunges 508 points

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1987

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Third Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Washington D.C; INF treaty signed

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1987

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Fourth Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Moscow

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1988

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Bush defeats Dukakis for presidency

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1988

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Chinese government suppresses prodemocracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square

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1989

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Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

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1989

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Eastern European countries oust communist governments

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1989

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Berlin wall torn down

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1989

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Iraq invades Kuwait

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1990

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East and West Germany unite

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1990

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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1990

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Persain Gulf War

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1991

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Thomas appointed to Supreme Court

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1991

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Gorbachev survives coup attempt, resigbs as Soviet president

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1991

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Soviet Union dissloves, republics form Commonwealth of Independent States

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1991

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27th Amendment ratified

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1992

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Planned Parenthood v. Casey

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1992

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Clinton defeats Bush and Perot for presidency

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1992

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NAFTA signed

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1993

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Republicans win majorities in both houses of Congress

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1994

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Welfare Refirm Bill becomes law

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1996

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Clinton defeats Dole for presidency

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1996

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Clinton-Lewinsky scandal

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1998

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U.S and Britain launch mulitary strikes against Iraq

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1998

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Senate acquits Clinton on impeachment charges

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1999

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Kosovo Crisis; NATO warfare with Serbia

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1999

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Protest in Seattle against World Trade Organization

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1999

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“Million Mom March” against guns in Washington, D.C.

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2000

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U.S normalizes trade relations with China

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2000

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George W. Bush wins presidency in electoral College, Al Gore takes popular vote

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2000

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Terrorists attack NYC and D.C. on Spetember 11th

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2001

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U.S. invades Afghanistan

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2001

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Congress passes USA Patriot Act

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2001

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Energy trader Enron collapses amid accounting scandals

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2001

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Congress passes No Child Left Behind Act

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2002

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Bush labels Iraq, Iran, and North Korea “axis of evil”

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2002

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Telecommunicatiobs giant WorldCom declared bankruptcy

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2002

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Congress authorizes use of force against Iraq

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2002

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U.N Security Council demands that Iraq comply with weapons inspections

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2002

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Republicans regain Senate

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2002

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North Korea withdraws from Nyclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

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2003

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U.S invades Iraq

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2003

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132
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Busg sigbs drug prescription bill for senior

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2003

133
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Saddan Hussein captured in Iraq

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2003

134
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Supreme Court barrowly approves affirmative action

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2003

135
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Gay marriage controvery erupts

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2004

136
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Iraqi interim government installed

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2004

137
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Bush defeats Kerry for presidency

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2004

138
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Iraq elects permanent government but quickly descends unto secretarian conflict

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2005

139
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Saddam Hussein executed

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2006

140
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U.S troop surge in Iraq

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2007

141
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Barack Obama elected 44th president

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2008

142
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Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency

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1952

143
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Ellison publishes Invisible Man

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1952

144
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CIA engineered coup installs shah of Iran

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1953

145
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Joseph Stalin dies

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1953

146
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French defeated at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam

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1954

147
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Army-McCarthy hearings

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1954

148
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Brown v. Board of Education

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1954

149
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Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed

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1954

150
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Nasser becomes prime minister of Egypt

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1954

151
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CIA-sponsered coup in Guatemala

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1954

152
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Montgomery bus boycott by blacks begins; emergence of MLK

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1955

153
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Geneva summit meeting on Vietnam

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1955

154
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Soviet Union withdraws troops from Austria

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1955

155
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Indian Reorganization Act

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1934

156
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FHA established

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1934

157
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Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act

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1934

158
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WPA established

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1935

159
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Wagner Act

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1935

160
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Resettlement Administration

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1935

161
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Social Security Act

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1935

162
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Public Utility Holding Company Act

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1935

163
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Schecter “sick chicken” case

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1935

164
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CIO Organized

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1935

165
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Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act

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1936

166
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Roosevelt defeats Landon for presidency

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1936

167
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USHA established

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1937

168
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Roosevelt announces “Court-packing” plan

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1937

169
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Second AAA

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1938

170
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Fair Labor Standards Act

A

1938

171
Q

Reorganization Act

A

1939

172
Q

FDR torpedoes London Economic Conference

A

1933

173
Q

Warsaw Pact signed

A

1955

174
Q

AF of L merges with CIO

A

1955

175
Q

Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first preformed

A

1955

176
Q

Soviets crush Hungarian revolt

A

1956

177
Q

Suez crisis

A

1956

178
Q

Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency

A

1956

179
Q

Mills publishes The Power Elite

A

1956

180
Q

Little Rock school desegregation crisis

A

1957

181
Q

Civil Rights Act Passed

A

1957

182
Q

Sourhern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed

A

1957

183
Q

Eisenhower Doctrine

A

1957

184
Q

Soviet Union launches Sputnik satellites

A

1957

185
Q

U.S troops sent to Lebanon

A

1958

186
Q

NDEA authorizes loans and grannts for science and language education

A

1958

187
Q

Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society

A

1958

188
Q

Berlin Crisis

A

1958-1959

189
Q

Castro seizes power in Cuba

A

1959

190
Q

Landrum-Griffin Act

A

1959

191
Q

Alaska and Hawaii attain statehood

A

1959

192
Q

Sit-in movement for civil rights begins

A

1960

193
Q

U-2 incident sabotafes Paris sunmit

A

1960

194
Q

OPEC formed

A

1960

195
Q

Kennedt defeats Nixon for presidency

A

1960

196
Q

Roosevelt defeats Hoover for presidency

A

1932

197
Q

Bank holiday

A

1933

198
Q

Emergency Banking Relief Act

A

1933

199
Q

Beer and Wine Revenue Act

A

1933

200
Q

Hundred Days Congress enacts AAA, TVA, HOLC, NRA, PWA

A

1933

201
Q

Federal Securities Act

A

1933

202
Q

Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act

A

1933

203
Q

CWA established

A

1933

204
Q

20th amendment

A

1933

205
Q

21st amendment

A

1933

206
Q

Nazis legally come to power in Germany with passage of Enabling Act

A

1933

207
Q

Gold Reserve Act

A

1934

208
Q

Securities and Exchange Commission authorized

A

1934

209
Q

Indian Reorganization Act

A

1934

210
Q

FHA established

A

1934

211
Q

Frazier-Lenke Farm Bankruptcy Act

A

1934

212
Q

WPA established

A

1935

213
Q

Wagner Act

A

1935

214
Q

Resettlement Administration

A

1935

215
Q

Social Security Act

A

1935

216
Q

Public Utility Holding Company Act

A

1935

217
Q

Schecter “sick chicken” case

A

1935

218
Q

CIO Organized

A

1935

219
Q

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act

A

1936

220
Q

Roosevelt defeats Landon for presidency

A

1936

221
Q

USHA established

A

1937

222
Q

Roosevelt announced “Court-packing” plan

A

1937

223
Q

Second AAA

A

1938

224
Q

Fair Labor Standards a Act

A

1938

225
Q

Reorganization Act

A

1939

226
Q

Hatch Act

A

1939

227
Q

FDR torpedoes London Economic Conference

A

1933

228
Q

US recognizes Soviet Union

A

1933

229
Q

FDR declares Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America

A

1933

230
Q

Tydings-McDuffie Act provides for Philippine independence on July 4, 1946

A

1934

231
Q

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

A

1934

232
Q

US Marines vacate Haiti

A

1934

233
Q

US Neutrality Act of 1935

A

thor the son of Odin

234
Q

US Neutrality Act of 1936

A

mjolnir

235
Q

US Neutrality Act of 1937

A

hail hydra

236
Q

Panay incident

A

1937

237
Q

Munich conference

A

1938

238
Q

Nazi-Soviet pact

A

1939

239
Q

WWII begins in Europe with Hitler’s invasion of Poland

A

1939

240
Q

US Neutrality Act of 1939

A

thor’s hot bod

241
Q

United States invokes first peacetime draft

A

1940

242
Q

Havana conference

A

1940

243
Q

Bases-for-destroyers deal with Britain

A

1940

244
Q

Battle of Britain

A

1940

245
Q

FDR defeats Willkie for presidency

A

1940

246
Q

Lend-Lease Act

A

1941

247
Q

Atlantic Charter

A

1941

248
Q

Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

A

1941

249
Q

United States declares war on Japan

A

1941

250
Q

Germany declares war on US

A

1941

251
Q

Randolph plans black march on Washington

A

1941

252
Q

FEPC established

A

1941

253
Q

Roosevelt delivers “Four Freedoms” speech

A

1941

254
Q

Japanese Americans sent to internment camps

A

1942

255
Q

Battle of the Coral Sea

A

1942

256
Q

Battle of Midway

A

1942

257
Q

United States invades North Africa

A

1942

258
Q

Congress of Racial Equality founded

A

1942

259
Q

Allies hold Casablanca conference

A

1943

260
Q

Allies invade Italy

A

1943

261
Q

Smith-Connallay Anti-Strike Act

A

1943

262
Q

“Zoot-suit” riots in Los Angeles

A

1943

263
Q

Race riot in Detroit

A

1943

264
Q

Tehran conference

A

1943

265
Q

Korematsu v. US

A

1944

266
Q

D-Day invasion of France

A

1944

267
Q

Battle of the Marianas

A

1944

268
Q

Roosevelt defeats Dewey for presidency

A

1944

269
Q

Battle of the Bulge

A

1944-1945

270
Q

Roosevelt dies, Truman assumes presidency

A

1945

271
Q

Germany surrenders

A

1945

272
Q

Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa

A

1945

273
Q

Potsdam conference

A

1945

274
Q

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

A

1945

275
Q

Yalta conference

A

1945

276
Q

Japan surrenders

A

1945

277
Q

Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

A

1944

278
Q

Bretton Woods economic conference

A

1944

279
Q

Spock publishes The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care

A

1945

280
Q

US ends lend-lease to USSR

A

1945

281
Q

UN established

A

1945

282
Q

Nuremberg war crimes trial in Germany

A

1945-1946

283
Q

Employment Act creates Council of Economic Advisers

A

1946

284
Q

Iran crisis

A

1946

285
Q

Kennan’s “Long Telegram” lays out “containment doctrine”

A

1946

286
Q

Tokyo war crimes trials

A

1946-1948

287
Q

Truman Doctrine

A

1947

288
Q

Marshall Plan

A

1947

289
Q

Taft-Hartley Act

A

1947

290
Q

National Security Act creates Department of Defense, NCS, and CIA

A

1947

291
Q

Israel founded; US recognizes it

A

1948

292
Q

Voice of America begins radio broadcasts behind iron curtain

A

1948

293
Q

Alger Hiss case begins

A

1948

294
Q

Truman defeats Dewey for presidency

A

1948

295
Q

Berlin blockade

A

1948-1949

296
Q

NATO established

A

1949

297
Q

American economy begins postwar growth

A

1950

298
Q

McCarthy red hunt begins

A

1950

299
Q

McCarran Internal Security Bill passed by Congress over Truman’s veto

A

1950

300
Q

Korean War

A

1950-1953

301
Q

Truman fires MacArthur

A

1951

302
Q

Rosenbergs convicted of treason

A

1951

303
Q

US explodes first hydrogen bomb

A

1952

304
Q

Postwar peak of US birthrate

A

1957

305
Q

US birthrate falls below replacement level

A

1973

306
Q

Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency

A

1952

307
Q

Ellison publishes Invisible Man

A

1952

308
Q

CIA-engineered coup installs shah of Iran

A

1953

309
Q

Army-McCarthy hearings

A

1954

310
Q

Brown v. Board of Education

A

1954

311
Q

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed

A

1954

312
Q

CIA sponsored coup in Guatemala

A

1954

313
Q

Montgomery bus boycott by blacks begins; emergence of Martin Luther King Jr.

A

1955

314
Q

Warsaw Pact signed

A

1955

315
Q

AF of L merged with CIO

A

1955

316
Q

Suez crisis

A

1956

317
Q

Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency

A

1956

318
Q

Little Rock school desegregation crisis

A

1957

319
Q

Civil Rights Act passed

A

1957

320
Q

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

A

1957

321
Q

Eisenhower Doctrine

A

1957

322
Q

US troops sent to Lebanon

A

1958

323
Q

NDEA authorizes loans and grants for science and language education

A

1958

324
Q

Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society

A

1958

325
Q

Berlin crisis

A

1958-1959

326
Q

Landrum-Griffin Act

A

1959

327
Q

Alaska and Hawaii attain statehood

A

1959

328
Q

Sit-in movement for civil rights begins

A

1960

329
Q

OPEC formed

A

1960

330
Q

Kennedy defeats Nixon for presidency

A

1960

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