Period Eight Flashcards
Dates and Events
1
Q
Start: 1945
A
Start of Cold War
2
Q
First Levittowns
A
1946
3
Q
Marshall Plan
A
1947
4
Q
Second Red Scare
A
1950
5
Q
Korean War Ends
A
1953
6
Q
Brown v. Board of Education
A
1954
7
Q
Interstate Highway Act
A
1956
8
Q
Soviets Launch Sputnik
A
1957
9
Q
Cuban Missile Crisis
A
1962
10
Q
March on Washington
A
1963
11
Q
Civil Rights Act
A
1964
12
Q
Launch of Great Society
A
1964
13
Q
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
A
1964
14
Q
Voting Rights Act
A
1965
15
Q
Immigration Acts
A
1965
16
Q
Violence/Protests at the DNC
A
1968
17
Q
Moon Landing
A
1969
18
Q
EPA Signed Into Law
A
1970
19
Q
Nixon Visits China
A
1972
20
Q
Nixon Resigns
A
1974
21
Q
SALT Treaty
A
1979
22
Q
End: 1980
A
Election of Reagan/End of Detente
