America 1910-1980
Category: Autre
mise à jour avec succès: 10 mars 2022
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WW1 breaks out in EuropeThe USA join Britains side in WW1Ford introduced assembly linesPresident Herbert Hoover is electedRadio coverage on the World heavyweight Boxing
title fight between Jack Dempsey and Gene TunneyCharles Lindbergh becomes the first
man to fly solo across the AtlanticThe Jazz Singer (the first talkie) is releasedCharlie Chaplin's film Easy Street is releasedThe USA introduced prohibitionSt Valentine's Day MassacreThe end of prohibitionThe KKK is reformedMembership of the KKK begins to fall1917 Immigration Law1921 Emergency Quota Act1924 National Origins Act1929 Immigrant RestrictionsThree bomb attacks in April, May and JuneSacco and Vanzetti are charged with murderWall Street CrashThe Bonus Army demand their war pension earlyRoosevelt wins the presidential electionRoosevelt gives his inauguration speech1935 Neutrality ActFDR makes his famous 'Quarantine' speechFDR agreed to a Lend Lease dealFDR is voted in as presidentThe War Production Board is createdThe end of WW2Eisenhower becomes the presidentWomen gain the right to vote in all US statesJoseph McCarthy uses the fear of communism
to further his political career.Brown V BoardChief Justice Warren declared that every education
board had to end segregation in schools.The Little Rock CrisisRosa Parks & the Montgomery Bus BoycottPresident Eisenhower passes a Civil Rights ActA sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina was organisedFreedom Rides were organisedBirmingham Children's CrusadeMarch on WashingtonKennedy began a tour of the southern states
as part of his re-election campaignJohnson passes the Civil Rights ActVoting Rights march is held in Selma and the Voting Rights Act is passedMalcolm X is assassinated by members of the NolBlack Panthers is foundedMLK is assassinated by James Earl GreyJohnson wins the election, becoming the next presidentJohnson doesn't run for president after the incident and VietnamEqual Pay ActNOW drafted their own Bill of Rights in 1968The EEOC outlawed job adverts that asked for men onlyThe Supreme Court ruled in the case Reed v ReedThe Educational Amendments ActThe Supreme Court ruled in the case Roe v WadeThe Equal Rights Amendment, campaigned by NOW, is passed by Congress
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