Period VIII and IX Timeline

Question 1

1944

Answer 1

G.I Bill passed

Question 2

1946

Answer 2

Largest strike wave in US history

Kennan’s “Long Telegram”

Containment begins

Question 3

1947

Answer 3

Truman Doctrine (communist containment) announced

House Un-American Activities Committee begins Hollywood investigations

The Marshall Plan

Question 4

1948

Answer 4

Taft-Hartley Act

Beginning of Berlin Blockade

Truman issues executive order desegregating the military

Election of Harry S. Truman

Question 5

1949

Answer 5

Formation of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Communist revolution in China

Question 6

1950

Answer 6

Senator McCarthy in the spotlight on issue of anti-communism (McCarthyism begins)

NCS-68 adopted

Korean War begins

Internal Security Act

Question 7

1951

Answer 7

US tests world’s first hydrogen bomb

Question 8

1952

Answer 8

Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Army-McCarthy hearings

Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 9

1953

Answer 9

End of the Korean War

Question 10

1954

Answer 10

Interstate Highway Act

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Question 11

1955

Answer 11

Warsaw Pact

Question 12

1956

Answer 12

Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her seat; Montgomery Bus Boycott

Reelection of Eisenhower

Federal Highway Act

Question 13

1957

Answer 13

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite

Little Rock Nine

Question 14

1958

Answer 14

NASA established

Question 15

1960

Answer 15

Lunch counter sit-in movement begins

Election of JFK

Question 16

1961

Answer 16

Berlin Wall erected

Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba

Freedom Riders

Question 17

1962

Answer 17

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 18

1963

Answer 18

Equal Pay Act

Campaign to desegregate Birmingham, Alabama

JFK assassinated

March on Washington, “I Have a Dream” speech

Question 19

1964

Answer 19

Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed

“Freedom Summer” voter registration drive in Mississippi

24th Amendment (bans poll taxes which targeted African Americans)

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Election of Lyndon Johnson

Question 20

1965

Answer 20

Voting Rights Act

Malcom X Assassinated

March from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama

US air strikes in Vietnam

Immigration Act of 1965

Question 21

1966

Answer 21

Founding of the Black Panthers

Question 22

1967

Answer 22

“Summer of Love”

Rioting in Detroit, Newark and other cities

Question 23

1968

Answer 23

My Lai Massacre

Assassination of MLK

Assassination of Robert Kennedy

Violence at Democratic Convention in Chicago

Election of Richard Nixon

Founding of the American Indian Movement

Question 24

1969

Answer 24

Stonewall Riots; birth of gay liberation movement

US Apollo 11 lands on the moon

Woodstock Festival

Question 25

1970

Answer 25

Earth Day President Nixon widens Vietnam War to Cambodia Jackson State and Kent State Massacres Clean Air Act of 1970

Question 26

1971

Answer 26

Pentagon Papers published in the New York Times 26th Amendment (right to vote for anyone at least 18)

Question 27

1972

Answer 27

Watergate Complex Reelection of Nixon Nixon in China Equal Rights Amendment approved SALT I Treaty

Question 28

1973

Answer 28

Congressional hearings on Watergate Roe v. Wade Vietnam Peace Settlement War Powers Act of 1973

Question 29

1974

Answer 29

Nixon resigns presidency; Gerald Ford assumes presidency Ford grants Nixon a complex pardon

Question 30

1976

Answer 30

Election of Jimmy Carter

Question 31

1978

Answer 31

Panama Canal Treaty Camp David Accords

Question 32

1979

Answer 32

SALT II Treaty Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Iranian students seize US embassy: beginning of Iranian Hostage Crisis

Question 33

1980

Answer 33

US boycotts Olympics games held Moscow Election of Ronald Reagan

Question 34

1981

Answer 34

First personal computers Beginning of AIDS crisis Economic Recovery Tax (supply-side economics, trickle-down economics, reaganomics)

Question 35

1983

Answer 35

Strategic Defence Initiative Invasion of Grenada

Question 36

1984

Answer 36

Reelection Ronald Reagan

Question 37

1987

Answer 37

Iran-Contra hearings Stock Market crash Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Question 38

1988

Answer 38

Election of George H. W Bush

Question 39

1989

Answer 39

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Fall of the Berlin Wall Collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe Invasion of Panama

Question 40

1990-91

Answer 40

Persian Gulf War

Question 41

1991

Answer 41

World Wide Web goes public Operation Desert Storm Collapse of Soviet Union

Question 42

1992

Answer 42

Election of Bill Clinton

Question 43

1993

Answer 43

Fighting in Somalia Ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Question 44

1994

Answer 44

House Republicans issue the "Contract with America" Both houses shift from Democratic to Republican control

Question 45

1995

Answer 45

Peace treaty signed in Ohio between Serbian Bosnian, and Croatian leaders

Question 46

1996

Answer 46

Welfare Reform Act Defence of Marriage Act Reelection of Bill Clinton

Question 47

2000

Answer 47

Bombing of USS Cole