Presidential Chronology- FDR-LBJ Flashcards
1st New Deal (1933-1935)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great Depression
Franklin D. Roosevelt
2nd New Deal (1935-1939)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Glass-Steagall Act (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Good Neighbor Policy (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S. officially recognizes Soviet Union (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hundred Days (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bank Holiday (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Federal Securities Act (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
20th Amendment (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
21st Amendment repeals 18th Amendment (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alphabet Soup- (1933) FDIC AAA CCC CWA NRA PWA
Franklin D. Roosevelt
TVA (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
SEC (1934)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Huey Long,
“Share the Wealth”
(1934)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nye Committee investigations (1934-36)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Social Security Act (1935)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Labor Relations Act [Wagner Act] (1935)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
WPA (1935)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Revenue Act (1935)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Schechter Poultry v. U.S. (1935)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S. v. Butler (1936)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
United Auto Workers sit-down strike (1936)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Neutrality Acts (1935, ‘36 and ‘37)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Japan invades China (1937)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cash n’ Carry (1937)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Memorial Day massacre (1937)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Court Packing (1937)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt Recession (1937-38)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress of Industrial Organization [CIO] (1938)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Munich Conference (1938)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John Steinbeck
“The Grapes of Wrath”
(1939)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Germany invades Poland, WWII (1939)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Blitzkrieg (1940)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Battle of Britain (1940)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Blacks march on Washington (1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor (1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fair Employment Practices Commission [FEPC] (1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
War Powers Act (1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lend Lease (1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Atlantic Charter (1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Office of War Information (1842)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress of Racial Equality [CORE] (1942)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Zoot Suit riots [LA] (1943)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Casablanca Conference (1943)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Teheran Conference (1943)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
D-Day (1944)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act [GI Bill of Rights] (1944)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yalta Conference (1945)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Manhattan Project
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fair Deal
Harry S. Truman
Cold War
Harry S. Truman
Potsdam Conference (1945)
Harry S. Truman
V-E Day and V-J Day (1945)
Harry S. Truman
Baby Boom (1945-64)
Harry S. Truman
Red Scare- McCarthyism (1945-54)
Harry S. Truman
Benjamin Spock
“Baby and Child Care”
(1946)
Harry S. Truman
George Kennan “Containment” (1946)
Harry S. Truman
Winston Churchill “Iron Curtain” (1946)
Harry S. Truman
Employment Act (1946)
Harry S. Truman
Truman Doctrine (1947)
Harry S. Truman
Marshall Plan (1947)
Harry S. Truman
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Harry S. Truman
National Security Council [NSC] (1947)
Harry S. Truman
Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] (1947)
Harry S. Truman
Federal Employee Loyalty Program (1947)
Harry S. Truman
Alger Hiss case (1948)
Harry S. Truman
Berlin Blockade-Airlift (1948)
Harry S. Truman
North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO] (1949)
Harry S. Truman
China falls to Communism (1949)
Harry S. Truman
USSR develops nuclear power (1949)
Harry S. Truman
Sweat v. Painter (1950)
Harry S. Truman
McCarran International Security Act (1950)
Harry S. Truman
NSC-68 (1950)
Harry S. Truman
22nd Amendment-two terms (1951)
Harry S. Truman
Rosenberg Trials (1951)
Harry S. Truman
Ralph Ellison
“Invisible Man”
(1951)
Harry S. Truman
Hydrogen Bomb (1952)
Harry S. Truman
Korean War (1950-53)
Harry S. Truman
Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice (1953)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Operation Wetback (1953)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
CIA led Iranian coup (1953)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Army-McCarthy hearings (1954)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fall of Dien Bien Phu (1954)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
CIA led Guatemalan coup (1954)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Geneva Accords with Vietnam (1954)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
SEATO formed (1955)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Warsaw Pact (1955)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Allan Ginsberg
“Howl”
(1955)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
AFL and CIO merge (1955)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Interstate Highway Act (1956)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Suez Canal Crisis (1956)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded [SCLC] (1957)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower Doctrine (1957)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sputnik launched—Space Race begins (1957)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jack Kerouac
“On The Road”
(1957)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
First Civil Rights Act (1957)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Second Civil Rights Act (1960)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
National Aeronautics and Space Administration founded [NASA] (1958)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Alaska and Hawaii become states (1959)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nixon-Khrushchev “Kitchen Debates” (1959)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Cuban Revolution [Castro] (1959)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U-2 spy plane (1960)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sit-ins begin (1960)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New Frontier
John F. Kennedy
Race to the Moon
John F. Kennedy
Freedom Rides (1961)
John F. Kennedy
Bay of Pigs (1961)
John F. Kennedy
Berlin Wall built (1961)
John F. Kennedy
Peace Corps (1961)
John F. Kennedy
Alliance for Progress (1961)
John F. Kennedy
23rd Amendment (1961)
John F. Kennedy
Rachel Carson
“Silent Spring”
(1962)
John F. Kennedy
Michael Harrington
“The Other America”
(1962)
John F. Kennedy
Students for a Democratic Society issue “Port Huron Statement” (1962)
John F. Kennedy
University of Mississippi integrated (1962)
John F. Kennedy
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
John F. Kennedy
Birmingham, Alabama march (1963)
John F. Kennedy
March on Washington (1962)
John F. Kennedy
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
John F. Kennedy
Betty Friedan
“The Feminine Mystique”
(1963)
John F. Kennedy
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
John F. Kennedy
Warren Commission
Lyndon B. Johnson
24th Amendment (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Economic Opportunity Act [War on Poverty] (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Freedom Summer in Mississippi (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Urban Mass Transportation Act (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Beatles tour the U.S. (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Berkeley Free Speech Movement (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Food Stamp Act (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
War on Poverty (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Great Society (1965-67)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (1965)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Higher Education Act (1965)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Medicare amendment to the Social Security Act (1964)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Selma, Alabama march (1965)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Immigration and Nationality Services Act (1965)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Assassination of Malcolm X (1965)
Lyndon B. Johnson
United Farm Workers strike [Cesar Chavez] (1965)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Watts Riot (1965)
Lyndon B. Johnson
National Organization of Women [NOW] (1966)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Black Panthers formed (1966)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Lyndon B. Johnson
25th Amendment (1967)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Six-Day War (1967)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Tet Offensive (1968)
Lyndon B. Johnson
My Lai Massacre (1968)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Assassination of Robert Kennedy (1968)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Democratic Convention (1968)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Bilingual Education Act (1968)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Fair Housing (1968)
Lyndon B. Johnson
American Indian Movement founded [AIM] (1968)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Columbian University students seize campus (1968)
Lyndon B. Johnson
Vietnam War protests (1968)
Lyndon B. Johnson