Events
London Econ Conference
(Jun-July 1933)Tydings McDuffie Act
(Mar 1934)US Recognizes
Soviet Union
(Nov. 1933)Key:
Blue - Great Britain
Green - Domestic
Red - Soviet Union
Cyan - whole world
Orange - Latin America
Pink - Italy
Brown - Italy
Grey - Japan
Golden - Spain
Black - China7th Pan American
Conference (Dec 1933)Marines leave Haiti
(Aug 1934)Inter-American
Conference
(Dec 1936)Reciprocal Trade
Agreement (June 1934)Stalin in Power
(Dec 1936)Mussolini comes
into power (Oct 1922)Hitler is Chancellor
(Jan 1933)Germany withdraws
from League of Nations
(Dec 1933)Rome-Berlin Axis
formed (Oct. 1936)Washington Naval Treaty
ends (Dec 1934)Japan withdraws from
League of Nations (Feb1933)Mussolini attacks Ethiopia
(Oct. 1935)Johnson Debt Default Act
(Apr. 1934)Neutrality Act of
1935Neutrality Act of
1936Neutrality Act of
1937Japan invades China
(July 1937)FDR delivers Quarrentine
Speech (Oct. 1937)Japanese bomb Panay
(Dec 1937)Hitler enters the
Rhineland (Mar. 1936)Munich Conference
(Sept 1938)Hitler takes Czechoslovakia
(Mar. 1939)Hitler-Stalin Pact
(Aug 1939)Hitler annexes Poland
(Sept. 1939)Neutrality Act of 1939
aka "cash-and-carry"
(Nov)Hitler takes Denmark
& Norway (Apr. 1940)Hitler takes Netherlands
& Belgium (May 1940)France surrenders
(June 1940)Congress passes
conscription law
(Sept 1940)Havana Conference
(June 1940)Kristallnacht
(Nov 1939)St. Louis tries to escape
(May 1939)Battle of Britain
(Aug 1940)FDR transfers destroyers
to Great Brit for 8 defensive
sites (Sept 1940)Lend-Lease approved
(Mar. 1941)Robin Moor destroyed
(May 1941)Hitler invades Soviet
Union (June 1941)Atlantic Conference
(Aug 1941)FDR decides to convoy
(Sept 1941)Congress votes to
get rid of most of Neutrality act
of 1939 (Nov. 1941)Japan - formal military
alliance w/ Nazis (Sept. 1940)US freezes Japan's
assets (July 1941)Final negotiations
w/ Japan (Nov-early Dec 1941)Japan attacks
Pearl Harbor
(Dec 1941)Germany & Italy declare war
on US (Dec 11 1941)CCC, WPA, National Youth admin
stopped (1942)Smith-Connally
Anti-Strike Act
(June 1943)Bracero Program
(Aug 1942)CORE est
(Mar. 1942)Randolph organizes
march on Wash
(1941)Japanese infiltrate Philippines
(Apr. 9 1942)Philippines completely
under Japanese control
(May 1942)Battle of Midway
(June 6 1942)MacArthur secures
New Guinea
(Aug 1944)US secures Marianas
(Aug 1944)Allies have upper
hand in Battle of
Atlantic (May 1943)NEW KEY -
Green: Allied win
Black: Nazi win
Grey: Japanese winAir-raid on Cologne -
turning point of air/land-war
(May 1942)Gen. Montgomery stops
Nazis from getting Suez Canal,
push Nazis back to Tunisia
(Oct. 1942)Nazis stalled at
Stalingrad
(Sept 1942)Russian counter-offensive,
turning point of war on front
(Nov 1942)Eisenhower launches secret
attack - Tunisia, Nazis surrender
(May 1943)Churchill/FDR
decide on
"unconditional
surrender" (Jan 1943)Sicily falls
(Aug 1943)Italy surrenders
unconditionally
(Sept 1943)Italians declare war on
Germany (Oct. 1943)D-day
(June 1944)FDR/Stalin/Churchill
decide on d-day plans
in Tehran (Dec 1943)Paris liberated
(Aug. 1944)Battle of the Bulge
(Dec 1944)Soviets reach Berlin
(Apr 1945)VE day
(May 8 1945)FDR dies
(Apr 12 1945)massive firebomb raid
(Mar. 1945) on tokyoIwo Jima
(Mar. 1945)Okinawa
(June 1945)Potsdam Conference
(July 1945)(Aug 1945) atomic bombs dropped
on Hiroshima & NagasakiWWII officially ends
(Sept 1945)Kennan introduces
Containment policy
(Jan 1947)Berlin Airlift
(June 1948 - May 1949)Germany lifts blockade
into Berlin (May 1949)
Gov't of W & E Germany
est.US joins NATO
(July 1949)Nixon goes after Hiss
(Aug 1948)GI Bill passed
(June 1944)Truman outlines Fair Deal
(Jan 1949)Congress votes to implement
Marshall Plan (Apr. 1948)Brown v Board of
Ed (May 1954)SCLC formed
(Aug 1957)Greensboro sit-in
(Feb 1960)SNCC formed
(Apr 1960)Operation wetback
(May 1954)Federal Highway
Act of 1956 (June)OPEC formed
(Sept 1960)Soviets launch Sputnik
(Oct 1957)Construction of
Berlin Wall Starts
(Aug 1961)Freedom rides start
(May 1961)Eisenhower flies to
Korea (Dec 1952)Montgomery Bus Boycott
(Dec 1955 - Dec 1956)Allies stage joint
attack on Egypt
w/o US (Oct 1956)JFK meets w/ Khrushchev
at Vienna (June 1961)Bay of Pigs Invasion
(Apr. 1961)Cuban missile crisis
(Oct. 1962)JFK's admin launches
successful coup, overthrow's
DienEisenhower sends fed
troops (Sept 1957) to
Little Rock HSParis Summit cancelled
bcuz U2 spy plane shot down
(May 1960)MLK's march on Wash
(Aug 1963)Dulles proposes massive
retaliation (1954)Stalin dies
(Mar 1953)JFK issues speech to
cool Cold War tensions
(June 1963)JFK address race relations
as "moral issue" (June 1963)Periods
Spanish Civil War
(July 1936 - Apr. 1939)Korean War
(June 1950 - July 1953)Truman's Presidency
(Apr 1945 - Jan 1953)Eisenhower's presidency
(Jan 1953 - Jan 1961)JFK's presidency
(Jan 1961 - Nov 1963)Apollo missions
(1961 - 1975)
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