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Period VIII and IX Timeline Flashcards

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1944

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G.I Bill passed

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1946

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Largest strike wave in US history

Kennan’s “Long Telegram”

Containment begins

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1947

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Truman Doctrine (communist containment) announced

House Un-American Activities Committee begins Hollywood investigations

The Marshall Plan

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1948

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Taft-Hartley Act

Beginning of Berlin Blockade

Truman issues executive order desegregating the military

Election of Harry S. Truman

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1949

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Formation of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

Communist revolution in China

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1950

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

NCS-68 adopted

Korean War begins

Internal Security Act

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1951

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US tests world’s first hydrogen bomb

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1952

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Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Army-McCarthy hearings

Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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1953

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End of the Korean War

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1954

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Interstate Highway Act

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

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1955

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Warsaw Pact

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1956

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

Reelection of Eisenhower

Federal Highway Act

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1957

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Civil Rights Act of 1957

Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite

Little Rock Nine

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1958

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NASA established

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1960

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Lunch counter sit-in movement begins

Election of JFK

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1961

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Berlin Wall erected

Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba

Freedom Riders

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1962

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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1963

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Equal Pay Act

Campaign to desegregate Birmingham, Alabama

JFK assassinated

March on Washington, “I Have a Dream” speech

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1964

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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

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1965

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Voting Rights Act

Malcom X Assassinated

March from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama

US air strikes in Vietnam

Immigration Act of 1965

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1966

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Founding of the Black Panthers

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1967

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“Summer of Love”

Rioting in Detroit, Newark and other cities

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1968

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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

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1969

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Stonewall Riots; birth of gay liberation movement

US Apollo 11 lands on the moon

Woodstock Festival

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1970

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Earth Day

President Nixon widens Vietnam War to Cambodia

Jackson State and Kent State Massacres

Clean Air Act of 1970

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1971

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Pentagon Papers published in the New York Times

26th Amendment (right to vote for anyone at least 18)

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1972

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Watergate Complex

Reelection of Nixon

Nixon in China

Equal Rights Amendment approved

SALT I Treaty

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1973

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Congressional hearings on Watergate

Roe v. Wade

Vietnam Peace Settlement

War Powers Act of 1973

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1974

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Nixon resigns presidency; Gerald Ford assumes presidency

Ford grants Nixon a complex pardon

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1976

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Election of Jimmy Carter

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1978

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Panama Canal Treaty

Camp David Accords

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1979

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SALT II Treaty

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

Iranian students seize US embassy: beginning of Iranian Hostage Crisis

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1980

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US boycotts Olympics games held Moscow

Election of Ronald Reagan

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1981

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First personal computers

Beginning of AIDS crisis

Economic Recovery Tax (supply-side economics, trickle-down economics, reaganomics)

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1983

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Strategic Defence Initiative

Invasion of Grenada

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1984

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Reelection Ronald Reagan

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1987

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Iran-Contra hearings

Stock Market crash

Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

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1988

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Election of George H. W Bush

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1989

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Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe

Invasion of Panama

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1990-91

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Persian Gulf War

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1991

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World Wide Web goes public

Operation Desert Storm

Collapse of Soviet Union

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1992

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Election of Bill Clinton

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1993

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Fighting in Somalia

Ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

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1994

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House Republicans issue the “Contract with America”

Both houses shift from Democratic to Republican control

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1995

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

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1996

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Welfare Reform Act

Defence of Marriage Act

Reelection of Bill Clinton

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2000

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Bombing of USS Cole

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