Key Dates 1945-75 Flashcards
when is Truman president?
1945 - 52
when is Eisenhower president?
1953 - 1961
when is JFK president?
1961 - 63
when is Johnson president?
1963 - 69
when is Nixon president?
1969-74
when was Truman’s full employment bill?
1945
when did truman get weakened when republicans took control of congress (he vetoed taft Harley bill but they passed it anyway)?
1946
when was Trumans faire deal that unexpectedly won him the 1948 election?
1949
when did Truman desegregate the army?
1948
when was brown v Topeka passed by Ike to desegregate schools?
1954
when did ike send troops to Little Rock to allow black pupils in?
1957
when was the highway act where Ike built 41,000 miles of interstate highway?
1956
when was operation wetback that deported 1.4 million Mexicans?
1954
when was Ike’s recession that lost him popularity?
1953 - 1957
when did Ike cut military spending that lost him popularity and caused recession n?
1953
when was Ike’s 2nd recession caused by government cuts?
1957-58
when was Ike’s national defence education act that gave 887 million for science and education?
1958
when did Johnson win the election with his plan for a great society?
1964
when did Johnsons spending on poverty double to 2 billion?
1965 - 68
when was Johnson voting rights act?
1965
what was Johnson’s civil rights act?
1964
when was Johnson’s immigration act?
1965
when did the American independent party with 5 Deep South states due to civil rights?
1968
when did Nixon bug the democrat office and he then won election by a landslide?
1972
when did Nixon resign after the White House tapes proved he knew about democrat office bugging?
1974
when was the oil crisis (Israel and US VS Russia, Egypt, syria) causing embargo and prices to rocket?
1973
when was the emergency petroleum allocation act?
nov 1973
by what year were 1.7 million houses built in urban areas?
1950
between what years were 4 million babies born per year?
1954 - 64
by what year had 6.7 million been spent on car industry?
1950
by what year were there 50 million TV’s in the US?
1960
when was the rock and roll era?
the 50’s and 60’s
when was the hippie movement?
1960’s and 70’s
when did women liberation movement protest miss America beauty pageant?
1968
when was NOW created?
1966
when did Betty Friedan write feminine mystique?
1963
when was the pill first used?
1960
when was the roe v wade case that legalised abortion?
1973
when was the Griswold v Connecticut case that allowed married couples to use birth control?
1965
when did china fall to communism?
1949
when was the Alger hiss trial that found him guilty of giving documents to soviets in 1938?
1950
when did Truman create the loyalty review board to investigate gov employees of communism?
1947
when did the soviets test the first nuclear weapon?
1949
when was the house committee of un-American activities created to investigate suspected communists (turned into witch-hunt)?
1938
when did Truman create Marshall aid to help rebuild Europe?
1948
when did senator McCarthy make a speech saying government was full of spies?
1950
when was the Boston bussing incident where protests started when black people were bussed to a white school?
1974
when was the Montgomery bus boycott after Roa parks arrest?
1955 - 56
when was the civil rights march on Washington with Martin king and 200,000 people?
1963
when was Browder v Gayle that ended segregation on buses?
1956
when were the freedom rides where activists tested supreme courts desegregating of public transport?
1961
when were ghetto riots for those who supported Malcolm X instead of Martin king?
1964-72
when were the black panthers formed?
1966
when were the stonewall riots that protested the raiding of a gay club?
1969
when was the first gay rights march?
28th June 1970
when was Illinois the first state to decriminalise gay acts with consenting adults in private?
1962
when did being gay stop being classed as mental illness?
1974
when did 700,000 march on Washington in protest of Vietnam?
1969
in what year were there 100 demonstrations against Vietnam war?
1968
when was American Indian movement (AIM) created?
1969
when was the trial of broken treaties where Indians marched to Whitehouse and gave 20 point solution?
1972
when was the wounded knee protest that lasted for 71 days and ended with gov. betraying Indians again?
1973
when was the Truman doctrine to offer support to comprise against Communism?
1947
when was the Berlin airlift?
1948-49
when was NATO signed against the Soviet Union?
1949
when does Mao and the chines communist party come to power?
1949
when is the Korean War?
1950-53
when is the US Taiwan defence treaty to support Chinese nationalist party and create military bases there?
1954
when does Khrushchev take over the soviets and create Warsaw Pact?
1955
when does Hungary threaten to leave Warsaw pact so Khrushchev sends tanks in?
1956
when did US help France to maintain control over south Vietnam?
1956
when did Paris summit fail after U2 American spy plane was shot down with Gary powers?
1960
when was Suez Canal seized by Egypt - US refuse to help UK and France?
1956
when does Castro come to power in Cuba during the revolution?
1959
when was the Berlin Wall crisis where Khrushchev ordered building of the wall?
1961
when was bay for pigs where JFK failed to start uprising against Castro?
1961
when did Castro convert to communism after bay of pigs?
1961
when was cuban missile crisis (closest to nuclear war) led to period of detente?
1962
when was leader of south Vietnam diem overthrown , so Kennedy move peasants into villages (unpopular)?
1963
when was US madox fired on by north Vietnam which caused gulf of Tonkin resolution tom be passed?
1964
when was the set offensive and my lai massacre where US troops killed Vietnamese civilians?
1968
when did US remove trade embargo on china after ping pong diplomacy?
1971
when was salt 1 signed with US and soviets to limit nuclear weapons?
1972
when was a ceasefire with US and soviets signed in Paris, followed by peace treaty?
1973
when is south Vietnam defeated by communism and country reunited?
1975
when is the Helsinki agreement with 33 countries to agree EU boundaries and respect human rights?
1975
