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Key Dates 1945-75 Flashcards

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when is Truman president?

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1945 - 52

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when is Eisenhower president?

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1953 - 1961

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when is JFK president?

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1961 - 63

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when is Johnson president?

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1963 - 69

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when is Nixon president?

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1969-74

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when was Truman’s full employment bill?

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1945

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when did truman get weakened when republicans took control of congress (he vetoed taft Harley bill but they passed it anyway)?

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1946

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when was Trumans faire deal that unexpectedly won him the 1948 election?

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1949

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when did Truman desegregate the army?

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1948

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when was brown v Topeka passed by Ike to desegregate schools?

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1954

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when did ike send troops to Little Rock to allow black pupils in?

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1957

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when was the highway act where Ike built 41,000 miles of interstate highway?

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1956

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when was operation wetback that deported 1.4 million Mexicans?

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1954

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when was Ike’s recession that lost him popularity?

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1953 - 1957

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when did Ike cut military spending that lost him popularity and caused recession n?

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1953

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when was Ike’s 2nd recession caused by government cuts?

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1957-58

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when was Ike’s national defence education act that gave 887 million for science and education?

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1958

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when did Johnson win the election with his plan for a great society?

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1964

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when did Johnsons spending on poverty double to 2 billion?

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1965 - 68

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when was Johnson voting rights act?

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1965

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what was Johnson’s civil rights act?

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1964

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when was Johnson’s immigration act?

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1965

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when did the American independent party with 5 Deep South states due to civil rights?

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1968

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when did Nixon bug the democrat office and he then won election by a landslide?

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1972

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when did Nixon resign after the White House tapes proved he knew about democrat office bugging?

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1974

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when was the oil crisis (Israel and US VS Russia, Egypt, syria) causing embargo and prices to rocket?

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1973

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when was the emergency petroleum allocation act?

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nov 1973

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28
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by what year were 1.7 million houses built in urban areas?

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1950

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29
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between what years were 4 million babies born per year?

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1954 - 64

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by what year had 6.7 million been spent on car industry?

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1950

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by what year were there 50 million TV’s in the US?

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1960

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32
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when was the rock and roll era?

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the 50’s and 60’s

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when was the hippie movement?

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1960’s and 70’s

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34
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when did women liberation movement protest miss America beauty pageant?

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1968

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35
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when was NOW created?

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1966

36
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when did Betty Friedan write feminine mystique?

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1963

37
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when was the pill first used?

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1960

38
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when was the roe v wade case that legalised abortion?

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1973

39
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when was the Griswold v Connecticut case that allowed married couples to use birth control?

A

1965

40
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when did china fall to communism?

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1949

41
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when was the Alger hiss trial that found him guilty of giving documents to soviets in 1938?

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1950

42
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when did Truman create the loyalty review board to investigate gov employees of communism?

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1947

43
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when did the soviets test the first nuclear weapon?

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1949

44
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when was the house committee of un-American activities created to investigate suspected communists (turned into witch-hunt)?

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1938

45
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when did Truman create Marshall aid to help rebuild Europe?

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1948

46
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when did senator McCarthy make a speech saying government was full of spies?

A

1950

47
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when was the Boston bussing incident where protests started when black people were bussed to a white school?

A

1974

48
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when was the Montgomery bus boycott after Roa parks arrest?

A

1955 - 56

49
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when was the civil rights march on Washington with Martin king and 200,000 people?

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1963

50
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when was Browder v Gayle that ended segregation on buses?

A

1956

51
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when were the freedom rides where activists tested supreme courts desegregating of public transport?

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1961

52
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when were ghetto riots for those who supported Malcolm X instead of Martin king?

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1964-72

53
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when were the black panthers formed?

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1966

54
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when were the stonewall riots that protested the raiding of a gay club?

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1969

55
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when was the first gay rights march?

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28th June 1970

56
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when was Illinois the first state to decriminalise gay acts with consenting adults in private?

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1962

57
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when did being gay stop being classed as mental illness?

A

1974

58
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when did 700,000 march on Washington in protest of Vietnam?

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1969

59
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in what year were there 100 demonstrations against Vietnam war?

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1968

60
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when was American Indian movement (AIM) created?

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1969

61
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when was the trial of broken treaties where Indians marched to Whitehouse and gave 20 point solution?

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1972

62
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when was the wounded knee protest that lasted for 71 days and ended with gov. betraying Indians again?

A

1973

63
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when was the Truman doctrine to offer support to comprise against Communism?

A

1947

64
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when was the Berlin airlift?

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1948-49

65
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when was NATO signed against the Soviet Union?

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1949

66
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when does Mao and the chines communist party come to power?

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1949

67
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when is the Korean War?

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1950-53

68
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when is the US Taiwan defence treaty to support Chinese nationalist party and create military bases there?

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1954

69
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when does Khrushchev take over the soviets and create Warsaw Pact?

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1955

70
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when does Hungary threaten to leave Warsaw pact so Khrushchev sends tanks in?

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1956

71
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when did US help France to maintain control over south Vietnam?

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1956

72
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when did Paris summit fail after U2 American spy plane was shot down with Gary powers?

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1960

73
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when was Suez Canal seized by Egypt - US refuse to help UK and France?

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1956

74
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when does Castro come to power in Cuba during the revolution?

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1959

75
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when was the Berlin Wall crisis where Khrushchev ordered building of the wall?

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1961

76
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when was bay for pigs where JFK failed to start uprising against Castro?

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1961

77
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when did Castro convert to communism after bay of pigs?

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1961

78
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when was cuban missile crisis (closest to nuclear war) led to period of detente?

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1962

79
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when was leader of south Vietnam diem overthrown , so Kennedy move peasants into villages (unpopular)?

A

1963

80
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when was US madox fired on by north Vietnam which caused gulf of Tonkin resolution tom be passed?

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1964

81
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when was the set offensive and my lai massacre where US troops killed Vietnamese civilians?

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1968

82
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when did US remove trade embargo on china after ping pong diplomacy?

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1971

83
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when was salt 1 signed with US and soviets to limit nuclear weapons?

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1972

84
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when was a ceasefire with US and soviets signed in Paris, followed by peace treaty?

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1973

85
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when is south Vietnam defeated by communism and country reunited?

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1975

86
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when is the Helsinki agreement with 33 countries to agree EU boundaries and respect human rights?

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1975

USA History (1920 - 1975) (36 decks)

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