Ch. 33-41 Flashcards
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Berlin Wall built
A
1961
1
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European Economic Market (EEC) created by Treaty of Rome
A
1957
2
Q
Alliance for Progress
A
1961
3
Q
Bay of Pigs invasion
A
1961
4
Q
Kennedy sent “military advisers” to South Vietnam
A
1961
5
Q
Pressure from Kennedy results in rollback of steel prices
A
1962
6
Q
Trade Expansion Act
A
1962
7
Q
Laos neutralized
A
1962
8
Q
Cuban Missle crisis
A
1962
9
Q
France vetoes British membership in EEC
A
1963
10
Q
Anti-Dien coup in South Vietnam
A
1963
11
Q
Civil Rights march in Washington D.C
A
1963
12
Q
Kennedy assassinated, Johnson assumes presidency
A
1963
13
Q
24th Amendment (no poll tax) ratified
A
1964
14
Q
“Freedom Summer” voter registration in South
A
1964
15
Q
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A
1964
16
Q
Johnson defeats Goldwater for presidency
A
1964
17
Q
War on Poverty begins
A
1964
18
Q
Civil Rights Act
A
1964
19
Q
Great Society Legislation
A
1965
20
Q
Voting Rights Act
A
1965
21
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U.S troops occupy Dominican Republic
A
1965
22
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Race riots in U.S. cities
A
1965-1968
23
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France withdraws from NATO
A
1966
24
Six Day War between Isreal and Egypt
1967
25
North Vietnamese army launches Tet offensive in South Vietnam
1968
26
Worldwide protests
1968
27
MLK Jr. & Robert Kennedy assasinated
1968
28
Prauge Spring crushed by Soviet army
1968
29
Nixon defeats Humphery and Wallace for presidency
1968
30
Stonewall Inn riot in New York City
1969
31
Astronauts land on moon
1969
32
My Lai Massacre
1968
33
WITCH protests Miss America pageant in Atlantis City
1968
34
Nixon orders invasion of Cambodia
1970
35
Kent State and Jackson State incidents
1970
36
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created
1970
37
Clean Air Act
1970
38
Pentagon Papers
1971
39
26th Amendment (voting age 18) padded
1972
40
Nixon visits China and Soviet Union
1972
41
Shanghai Communiqué begins "normalizatiob" of U.S.-Chinese relations
1972
42
ARM and SALT treaties ratified
1972
43
Nixon defeats McGovern for presidency
1972
44
Equal Rights Amendment passes Congress (not ratified by states)
1972
45
Title IX of Education Amendments passed
1972
46
Treaty of Paris enacts cease-fire in Vietbam and U.S. withdrawl
1973
47
Agnew resigns; Ford appointed vice president
1973
48
War Powers Act
1973
49
Yon Kippur War
1973
50
OPEC oil embargo
1973
51
Endangered Species Act
1973
52
Chilean president Allende killed in CIA backed coup
1973
53
Frontiero v. Richardson
1973
54
Roe v. Wade
1973
55
Watergate hearings and investigations
1973-1974
56
Nixon resigns, Ford assumes presidency
1974
57
OPEC ends embargo, increases oil prices
1974
58
Internatiobal Energy Agency formed
1974
59
Milliken v. Bradley
1974
60
Helsinki accords
1975
61
South Vietbam falls to communists
1975
62
Carter defeats Ford for presidency
1976
63
Camp David Accords between Egypt and Isreal
1978
64
United States v. Wheeler
1978
65
Iranian Revolution and oil crisis
1979
66
SALT II agreemebts signed (never ratified by Senate)
1979
67
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
1979
68
Iranian Hostage crisis
1979-1981
69
U.S. boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
1980
70
Reagan defeats Carter for presidency
1980
71
Iran releases American hostages
1981
72
"Reaganomics" spending & tax cuts passed
1981
73
Solidarity movement in Poland
1981
74
O'Connor appointed to Supreme Court (1st woman)
1981
75
United States aids anti-leftist forces jn Central America
1981-1991
76
Recession hits U.S economy
1982
77
Israel invades Lebanon
1982
78
Reagan announces SDI plan ( ✨Star Wars✨)
1983
79
U.S marines killed in Beirut, Lebanon
1983
80
U.S inavsion of Grenada
1983
81
Reagan defeats Mondale for presidency
1984
82
Soviet Union boycotts Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
1984
83
Gorbachev comes to power in USSR, announces glasnost and perestroika
1985
84
First Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Geneva
1985
85
Reagan administratiob backs Aquino in Philippines
1986
86
Iran-Contra affair
1986
87
Second Reagan-Gorbachev summit meetin in Reykjavik, Iceland
1986
88
Senate rejects Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork
1987
89
U.S naval escorts begin in Persain Gulf
1987
90
Stock market plunges 508 points
1987
91
Third Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Washington D.C; INF treaty signed
1987
92
Fourth Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Moscow
1988
93
Bush defeats Dukakis for presidency
1988
94
Chinese government suppresses prodemocracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square
1989
95
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services
1989
96
Eastern European countries oust communist governments
1989
97
Berlin wall torn down
1989
98
Iraq invades Kuwait
1990
99
East and West Germany unite
1990
100
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
1990
101
Persain Gulf War
1991
102
Thomas appointed to Supreme Court
1991
103
Gorbachev survives coup attempt, resigbs as Soviet president
1991
104
Soviet Union dissloves, republics form Commonwealth of Independent States
1991
105
27th Amendment ratified
1992
106
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
1992
107
Clinton defeats Bush and Perot for presidency
1992
108
NAFTA signed
1993
109
Republicans win majorities in both houses of Congress
1994
110
Welfare Refirm Bill becomes law
1996
111
Clinton defeats Dole for presidency
1996
112
Clinton-Lewinsky scandal
1998
113
U.S and Britain launch mulitary strikes against Iraq
1998
114
Senate acquits Clinton on impeachment charges
1999
115
Kosovo Crisis; NATO warfare with Serbia
1999
116
Protest in Seattle against World Trade Organization
1999
117
"Million Mom March" against guns in Washington, D.C.
2000
118
U.S normalizes trade relations with China
2000
119
George W. Bush wins presidency in electoral College, Al Gore takes popular vote
2000
120
Terrorists attack NYC and D.C. on Spetember 11th
2001
121
U.S. invades Afghanistan
2001
122
Congress passes USA Patriot Act
2001
123
Energy trader Enron collapses amid accounting scandals
2001
124
Congress passes No Child Left Behind Act
2002
125
Bush labels Iraq, Iran, and North Korea "axis of evil"
2002
126
Telecommunicatiobs giant WorldCom declared bankruptcy
2002
127
Congress authorizes use of force against Iraq
2002
128
U.N Security Council demands that Iraq comply with weapons inspections
2002
129
Republicans regain Senate
2002
130
North Korea withdraws from Nyclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
2003
131
U.S invades Iraq
2003
132
Busg sigbs drug prescription bill for senior
2003
133
Saddan Hussein captured in Iraq
2003
134
Supreme Court barrowly approves affirmative action
2003
135
Gay marriage controvery erupts
2004
136
Iraqi interim government installed
2004
137
Bush defeats Kerry for presidency
2004
138
Iraq elects permanent government but quickly descends unto secretarian conflict
2005
139
Saddam Hussein executed
2006
140
U.S troop surge in Iraq
2007
141
Barack Obama elected 44th president
2008
142
Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency
1952
143
Ellison publishes Invisible Man
1952
144
CIA engineered coup installs shah of Iran
1953
145
Joseph Stalin dies
1953
146
French defeated at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam
1954
147
Army-McCarthy hearings
1954
148
Brown v. Board of Education
1954
149
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed
1954
150
Nasser becomes prime minister of Egypt
1954
151
CIA-sponsered coup in Guatemala
1954
152
Montgomery bus boycott by blacks begins; emergence of MLK
1955
153
Geneva summit meeting on Vietnam
1955
154
Soviet Union withdraws troops from Austria
1955
155
Indian Reorganization Act
1934
156
FHA established
1934
157
Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act
1934
158
WPA established
1935
159
Wagner Act
1935
160
Resettlement Administration
1935
161
Social Security Act
1935
162
Public Utility Holding Company Act
1935
163
Schecter "sick chicken" case
1935
164
CIO Organized
1935
165
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
1936
166
Roosevelt defeats Landon for presidency
1936
167
USHA established
1937
168
Roosevelt announces "Court-packing" plan
1937
169
Second AAA
1938
170
Fair Labor Standards Act
1938
171
Reorganization Act
1939
172
FDR torpedoes London Economic Conference
1933
173
Warsaw Pact signed
1955
174
AF of L merges with CIO
1955
175
Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first preformed
1955
176
Soviets crush Hungarian revolt
1956
177
Suez crisis
1956
178
Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency
1956
179
Mills publishes The Power Elite
1956
180
Little Rock school desegregation crisis
1957
181
Civil Rights Act Passed
1957
182
Sourhern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) formed
1957
183
Eisenhower Doctrine
1957
184
Soviet Union launches Sputnik satellites
1957
185
U.S troops sent to Lebanon
1958
186
NDEA authorizes loans and grannts for science and language education
1958
187
Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society
1958
188
Berlin Crisis
1958-1959
189
Castro seizes power in Cuba
1959
190
Landrum-Griffin Act
1959
191
Alaska and Hawaii attain statehood
1959
192
Sit-in movement for civil rights begins
1960
193
U-2 incident sabotafes Paris sunmit
1960
194
OPEC formed
1960
195
Kennedt defeats Nixon for presidency
1960
196
Roosevelt defeats Hoover for presidency
1932
197
Bank holiday
1933
198
Emergency Banking Relief Act
1933
199
Beer and Wine Revenue Act
1933
200
Hundred Days Congress enacts AAA, TVA, HOLC, NRA, PWA
1933
201
Federal Securities Act
1933
202
Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
1933
203
CWA established
1933
204
20th amendment
1933
205
21st amendment
1933
206
Nazis legally come to power in Germany with passage of Enabling Act
1933
207
Gold Reserve Act
1934
208
Securities and Exchange Commission authorized
1934
209
Indian Reorganization Act
1934
210
FHA established
1934
211
Frazier-Lenke Farm Bankruptcy Act
1934
212
WPA established
1935
213
Wagner Act
1935
214
Resettlement Administration
1935
215
Social Security Act
1935
216
Public Utility Holding Company Act
1935
217
Schecter "sick chicken" case
1935
218
CIO Organized
1935
219
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
1936
220
Roosevelt defeats Landon for presidency
1936
221
USHA established
1937
222
Roosevelt announced "Court-packing" plan
1937
223
Second AAA
1938
224
Fair Labor Standards a Act
1938
225
Reorganization Act
1939
226
Hatch Act
1939
227
FDR torpedoes London Economic Conference
1933
228
US recognizes Soviet Union
1933
229
FDR declares Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America
1933
230
Tydings-McDuffie Act provides for Philippine independence on July 4, 1946
1934
231
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
1934
232
US Marines vacate Haiti
1934
233
US Neutrality Act of 1935
thor the son of Odin
234
US Neutrality Act of 1936
mjolnir
235
US Neutrality Act of 1937
hail hydra
236
Panay incident
1937
237
Munich conference
1938
238
Nazi-Soviet pact
1939
239
WWII begins in Europe with Hitler's invasion of Poland
1939
240
US Neutrality Act of 1939
thor's hot bod
241
United States invokes first peacetime draft
1940
242
Havana conference
1940
243
Bases-for-destroyers deal with Britain
1940
244
Battle of Britain
1940
245
FDR defeats Willkie for presidency
1940
246
Lend-Lease Act
1941
247
Atlantic Charter
1941
248
Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
1941
249
United States declares war on Japan
1941
250
Germany declares war on US
1941
251
Randolph plans black march on Washington
1941
252
FEPC established
1941
253
Roosevelt delivers "Four Freedoms" speech
1941
254
Japanese Americans sent to internment camps
1942
255
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942
256
Battle of Midway
1942
257
United States invades North Africa
1942
258
Congress of Racial Equality founded
1942
259
Allies hold Casablanca conference
1943
260
Allies invade Italy
1943
261
Smith-Connallay Anti-Strike Act
1943
262
"Zoot-suit" riots in Los Angeles
1943
263
Race riot in Detroit
1943
264
Tehran conference
1943
265
Korematsu v. US
1944
266
D-Day invasion of France
1944
267
Battle of the Marianas
1944
268
Roosevelt defeats Dewey for presidency
1944
269
Battle of the Bulge
1944-1945
270
Roosevelt dies, Truman assumes presidency
1945
271
Germany surrenders
1945
272
Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
1945
273
Potsdam conference
1945
274
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945
275
Yalta conference
1945
276
Japan surrenders
1945
277
Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)
1944
278
Bretton Woods economic conference
1944
279
Spock publishes The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
1945
280
US ends lend-lease to USSR
1945
281
UN established
1945
282
Nuremberg war crimes trial in Germany
1945-1946
283
Employment Act creates Council of Economic Advisers
1946
284
Iran crisis
1946
285
Kennan's "Long Telegram" lays out "containment doctrine"
1946
286
Tokyo war crimes trials
1946-1948
287
Truman Doctrine
1947
288
Marshall Plan
1947
289
Taft-Hartley Act
1947
290
National Security Act creates Department of Defense, NCS, and CIA
1947
291
Israel founded; US recognizes it
1948
292
Voice of America begins radio broadcasts behind iron curtain
1948
293
Alger Hiss case begins
1948
294
Truman defeats Dewey for presidency
1948
295
Berlin blockade
1948-1949
296
NATO established
1949
297
American economy begins postwar growth
1950
298
McCarthy red hunt begins
1950
299
McCarran Internal Security Bill passed by Congress over Truman's veto
1950
300
Korean War
1950-1953
301
Truman fires MacArthur
1951
302
Rosenbergs convicted of treason
1951
303
US explodes first hydrogen bomb
1952
304
Postwar peak of US birthrate
1957
305
US birthrate falls below replacement level
1973
306
Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency
1952
307
Ellison publishes Invisible Man
1952
308
CIA-engineered coup installs shah of Iran
1953
309
Army-McCarthy hearings
1954
310
Brown v. Board of Education
1954
311
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed
1954
312
CIA sponsored coup in Guatemala
1954
313
Montgomery bus boycott by blacks begins; emergence of Martin Luther King Jr.
1955
314
Warsaw Pact signed
1955
315
AF of L merged with CIO
1955
316
Suez crisis
1956
317
Eisenhower defeats Stevenson for presidency
1956
318
Little Rock school desegregation crisis
1957
319
Civil Rights Act passed
1957
320
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
1957
321
Eisenhower Doctrine
1957
322
US troops sent to Lebanon
1958
323
NDEA authorizes loans and grants for science and language education
1958
324
Galbraith publishes The Affluent Society
1958
325
Berlin crisis
1958-1959
326
Landrum-Griffin Act
1959
327
Alaska and Hawaii attain statehood
1959
328
Sit-in movement for civil rights begins
1960
329
OPEC formed
1960
330
Kennedy defeats Nixon for presidency
1960
