Key Dates Flashcards
1
Q
Republicans regain Congress under Truman
A
1946
2
Q
GI Bill of Rights
A
1944
3
Q
21 point plan for reconstruction after WW2
A
Sep 1945
4
Q
Double V Campaign
A
1942-45
5
Q
Attacks on returning soldiers
A
1945-46
6
Q
Potsdam Conference
A
July/August 1945
7
Q
Atom Bomb dropped on Japan
A
6th and 9th August 1945
8
Q
Long Telegram sent from Kennan
A
1946
9
Q
Taft Hartley Act - Truman’s veto overturned
A
1947
10
Q
States Rights Democratic Party win 4 states in the deep south
A
1948 election
11
Q
Truman wins a surprise re election
A
1948
12
Q
National Secuirty Act creates National Security Council and CIA
A
1947
13
Q
Executive Order 9981 - Desegregate the military
A
1948
14
Q
To Secure These Rights published
A
1947
15
Q
Truman speech to NAACP
A
1947
16
Q
Jackie Robinson breaks colour bar in the MLB
A
1947
17
Q
Truman Doctrine
A
1947
18
Q
Marshall Plan - European Recovery Plan
A
1948
19
Q
Belin Blockade and Airlift Begin
A
June 1948
20
Q
Joseph’s McCarthy speech on communism in State Dept
A
Feb 1950
21
Q
NSC 68 Proposed
A
1950
22
Q
Soviet Union gets Atomic Bomb
A
1949
23
Q
Berlin Blockade + Airlift End
A
May 1949
24
Q
NATO set up
A
1949
25
Loss of China
1949
26
Korean War Starts
1950
27
Truman's approval rating hits 22%
1952
28
Steel Industry strikes
1952
29
Stalemate in Korean War
1951
30
MacArthur Sacked from leading UN forces in Korea
1951
31
H-Bomb tested
1952
32
Army-McCarthy hearings
1954
33
Rosenburgs executed
1953
34
Dept of Health, Education and Welfare set up
1953
35
Recession hits economy
1953
36
Brown v Board of education
- desegregate public schools
- role of Earl Warren
1954
37
Armistice in Korea
1953
38
Iran Coup
August - 1953
39
Guatemala Coup (PB Success)
1954
40
French defeat in Vietnam
1954
41
Shelling of Quemoy and Matsu / Taiwan Straits crisis
1954-55
42
Stalin dies
1953
43
Interstate Highways Act
1956
44
Southdale Centre - first mall opens
1956
45
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955
46
Emitt Till murdered
1955
47
Brown vs Gayle
- desegregating transport
1956
48
Geneva Conference + Open Skies proposal
1955
49
Hungarian Uprising
1956
50
Suez Crisis
1956
51
Second recession hits under Eisenhower, 5 million unemployed
1958
52
NASA founded
1958
53
First Civil Rights Act under Eisenhower
1957
54
Little Rock Crisis
1957
55
MLK declared leader of SCLC
1957
56
Sputnik Launched
1957
57
USA has 5500 nuclear weapons compared to USSR's 650
1957
58
Berlin Ultimatum issued by Khrsuhchev
1958
59
Alaska and Hawaii admittedd as states
1959
60
Kennedy elected President
1960
61
SDS set up
1960
62
The Hate that Hate produced documentary
1960
63
SNCC formed
1960
64
Greensboro sit-ins
1960
65
U2 Crisis
1960
66
Paris peace summit failure
1960
67
Khrsushchev visits America
1959
68
New Frontier coined in Democratic candidate acceptance speech for Kennedy
1960
69
Social Secuirty benefits increased by 20% (JFK)
1961
70
Freedom Rides
1961
71
Albany Movement
1961
72
Exec Order 10925 - Set up President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity
1961
73
Bay of Pigs invasion
April 1961
74
Vienna Summit
June 1961
75
Berlin Wall put up
August 1961
76
Checkpoint Charlie standoff
October 1961
77
Peace Corps established
1961
78
Coup against Diem in S. Vietnam
November 1961
79
Nixon loses California Governor's race
1962
80
Manpower Development and Training Act
1962
81
Harrington's The Other America published
1962
82
JFK's Man on the Moon Speech
1962
83
SDS first convention, Port Huron statement (manifesto)
1962
84
James Meredith registers at the University of Mississippi
1962
85
Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct 1962
86
Kennedy's assassination, Johnson becomes president
1963
87
Clean Air ACt
1963
88
Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique published
1963
89
Birmingham March
July 1963
90
Civil Rights Bill
1963
91
March on Washington
August 1963
92
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
1963
93
Ich Bin Ein Berliner speech
1963
94
Diem assassinated
1963
95
Warren Commission Report published (about JFK's assassination)
1964
96
LBJ coins "Great Society" and declares "a war on poverty"
1964
97
Economic Opportunity Act
1964
98
Berkley Free Speech Movement begins
1964
99
Civil Rights Act (LBJ)
July 1964
100
Freedom Summer in Missippi, CORE and SNCC
1964
101
Malcolm X Ballot or Bullet speech
1964
102
Race riots begin in ghettos
1964
103
Gulf of tonkin incident, tonkin resolution
1964
104
Warren Commission report published
1964
105
Medicare and Medicaid created in the Social Secuirty Act
1965
106
Housing and Urban development Act
1965
107
Minimum Wage Act (LBJ)
1965
108
Teach in against Vientnam War
1965
109
Anti-War protests by SDS
1965
110
Selma March
1965
111
Voting Rights Act
1965
112
Malcolm X assassinated
1965
113
First ground troops in Vietnam
1965
114
Rolling Thunder Begins
1965
115
Model Cities Program begins
1966
116
NOW established
1966
117
Black Panthers established
1966
118
Stokely Carmichael becomes head of SNCC
1966
119
Meredith March
1966
120
MLK's Chicago Ghetto campaign
1966
121
France withdraw from NATO
1966
122
190,000 troops in Vietnam
1966
123
Youth International Party Set Up - Yippies
1967
124
Stop the Draft week
1967
125
"Long Hot Summers" eg Detroit, Newark
1967
126
MLK criticises Vietnam War
1967
127
SNCC expels white members
1967
128
Thurgood Marshall becomes first African American Justice of the Supreme Court
1967
129
Bobby Kennedy assassinated
1968
130
Fair Housing Act (LBJ)
1968
131
Police clash with anti-war protestors at Democratic National Convention
1968
132
Columbia University Riots
1968
133
MLK's assassination
1968
134
Kerner Report published
1968
135
My Lai Massacre
1968
136
Tet Offensive
1968
137
Ten Point Program of the Black Panthers
1967
138
Silent Majority speech
1969
139
Paris Peace talks begin (Vietnam)
1969
140
Woodstock Music Festival
1969
141
Nixon launches Vietnamisation policy
1969
142
Apollo 11 successfully lands on the moon
1969
143
250,000 protestors march in Washington against the Vietnam war
1969
144
Covert bombing of Cambodia begins
1969
145
Women's movement protest at Miss America Pageant
1969
146
Stonewall Rebellion launches Gay Rights movement
1969
147
Occupational Safety and Health Act
1970
148
What happens in 1970 midterms
Democrat sweep
149
Voting Rights Act Amendment lowers the voting age to 18
1970
150
Race riots in Georgia
1970
151
Kent State shootings
1970
152
US invades Cambodia
1970
153
Chicago Seven found not guilty of inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic convention
1970
154
Nixon declares a War on Drugs
1971
155
End of Bretton Woods System
1971
156
New York Times publishes the Pentagon Papers - (about Vietnam, claiming Johnson had lied)
1971
157
US ends trade embargo on China
1971
158
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously upheld busing programs that aimed to speed up the racial integration of public schools in the United States)
1971
159
William Calley found guilty of 22 murders in My Lai massacre
1971
160
Vietnam Draft ends
1972
161
Nixon wins landslide re-election
1972
162
Equal rights amendment passed through Senate and goes to states for ratification
1972
163
Kissinger declares "peace is at hand"
1972
164
Break in at Watergate building
1972
165
SALT treaty
1972
166
Nixon visits China
1972
167
Watergate burglars convicted
1973
168
Roe v. Wade
1973
169
Paris Peace accords signed. Vietnam war ends
1973
170
Dollar devalued by 10%
1973
171
Senate investigation into Watergate begins
1973
172
OPEC raises oil prices by 70%
1973
173
Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Dean resign
1973
174
White House tapes surrendered
1973
175
Inflaiton hits 11%
1974
176
Seven former White House officials are indicted for their role in Watergate
1974
177
Impeachment process started in Congress
1974
178
Supreme Court orderes NIxon to release White House tapes
1974
179
Nixon resigns
1974
180
Gerald Ford becomes President
8th August 1974
Nixon resignation the day before
181
Ford pardons Nixon
8th September 1974
182
Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell found guilty of Watergate cover-up
1975
183
Fall of Saigon, Final withdrawal of Vietnam
1975
184
Unemployment Reaches 9% (F/C)
1975
185
Ford survives two assassination attempts
1975
186
Helsinki Agreement
1975
187
Carter defeats Ford to become President
1976
188
Black History Month created
1976
189
Natural Gas shortage forces closure of schools and factories in the winter of....
1976
190
Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders
1977
191
Sit ins across the US for Civil Rights for people with disabilities
1977
192
US Department of Energy created
1977
193
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty signed (F+C)
1977
194
SEATO dissolved
1977
195
Carter postpones the development of the Neutron bomb
1978
196
