Key Dates Flashcards
1
Q
Black Thursday
A
Thursday 24th October 1929
2
Q
Dust bowl
A
1931
3
Q
Bonus Marchers
A
May and June 1932
4
Q
Emergency Relief Act
A
July 1932
5
Q
Roosevelt’s election win
A
November 1932
6
Q
Second New deal
A
January 1935
7
Q
Reduction of New Deal budget
A
1937
8
Q
Sick Chickens Case
A
1935
9
Q
US vs Butler
A
1936
10
Q
Roosevelt’s death
A
12th April 1945
11
Q
Black soldiers allowed into the marines
A
1944
12
Q
Desegregation in the navy
A
1946
13
Q
Army and Air Force desegregation
A
1948
14
Q
Decision of Brown vs Board
A
17th May 1954
15
Q
Little Rock High School incident
A
3rd September 1957
16
Q
Re-opening of Arkansas schools
A
1959
17
Q
James Meredith case
A
June 1962
18
Q
End of Montgomery Bus Boycott
A
20th December 1956
19
Q
Sit ins
A
Early 1960
20
Q
Freedom rides
A
May 1961
21
Q
I Have A Dream speech
A
1963
22
Q
MLK’s death
A
4th April 1968
23
Q
Malcom X’s death
A
21st February 1965
24
Q
Civil Rights Act
A
1964
25
March to the Bridge in Selma
7th March 1965
26
Voting Rights Act
Summer 1965
27
Watts Riot
11th August 1965
28
Founding of the Black Panther movement
October 1966
29
Kennedy wins the General Election
1960
30
Kennedy’s assassination
1963
31
Nixon first election win
1968
32
Nixon second election win
1972
33
Nixon resignation
8th August 1974
34
Nixon hands over all White House tapes
30th April 1974
35
When was the Election Campaign Act passed?
1974
36
When was the War Powers Act introduced?
1973
37
When was the Privacy Act passed?
1974
38
Reagan 1st election win
1981
39
Reagan 2nd election win
1985
40
Stock market crash due to Reaganomics
1987
41
Challenger space shuttle crash
January 1986
42
War on Drugs
14th October 1982
43
When was George Bush Snr's presidential term?
1989-1993
44
Bill Clinton election win
1992
45
Yalta conference
January 1945
46
Potsdam Conference
July 1945
47
When was the Marshall Plan introduced?
June 1947
48
When was NATO set up?
1949
49
When was the Berlin Crisis blockade?
24th June 1948
50
Beginning of Operation Planefare
28th June 1948
51
End of the Blockade
12th May 1949
52
Order to build the Berlin Wall
August 1961
53
Cuba invasion by the USA
April 1961
54
Beggining of Soviet missile installation in Cuba
September 1962
55
Photos of Cuban missiles
14th October 1962
56
When was the beginning of naval blockade to stop missiles?
20th October 1962
57
US spy plane shot down over Cuba
27th October 1962
57
US spy plane shot down over Cuba
27th October 1962
57
US spy plane shot down over Cuba
27th October 1962
57
US spy plane shot down over Cuba
27th October 1962
57
US spy plane shot down over Cuba
27th October 1962
57
US spy plane shot down over Cuba
27th October 1962
58
US spy plane shot down over Cuba
27th October 1962
59
Partial Test Ban treaty
August 1963
60
Geneva Agreement
1954
61
When was the beggining of the Vietcong terror campaign?
1959
62
Overthrow of Diem
1963
63
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964
64
Operation Rolling Thunder
1965-1968
65
Beggining of the Tet Offensive
31st January 1968
66
Ceasefire for Vietnam
23rd January 1973
67
Helsinki Agreements
1975
68
Declared end of the Cold War
2nd December 1989
69
Fall of the Berlin Wall
9th November 1989
70
Gulf War
1990-1991
