APUSH Unit 8 Timeline (America from the Cold War to the Present)
Category: Other
Updated: 26 Jan 2021
Green - 1940s
Red - 1950s
Blue - 1960s
Orange - 1970s
Purple - 1980s
Pink - 1990s
Contributors
Created byShevlin Jaffe
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Events
Congress on Racial Equality/CORE established by James FarmerGI BIllTruman’s Fair Deal22nd AmendmentTaft-Hartley ActElection of 1948Truman DoctrineCreation of IsraelCreation of the United StationKennan’s “Long Telegram”‘Iron Curtain Speech’National Security ActHUACTruman integrates the Armed ForcedChina becomes CommunistCreation of NATOSoviets test 1st Atomic BombBrown v. Board of EducationMontgomery Bus BoycottSouthern Christian Leadership Conference/SCLC formedEmmitt Till is murderedLittle Rock High School/Little Rock NineFederal Highway ActNational Security Council Report 68/NSC-68Battle of Dien Bien PhuCreation of the Warsaw PactAlger Hiss ConvictionRosenberg’s ExecutionMcCarran Internal Security ActMcCarthyismElection of 1952The Organization ManInvisible ManA Crack in the Picture WindowOn the RoadHowlSuez CrisisNikita Khrushchev becomes leader of Soviet UnionFederal Civil Defense AdministrationEisenhower DoctrineHungarian RevolutionSputnikCreation of NASANational Defense Education ActKitchen DebateCastro’s Communist Revolution in CubaElection of 1960Kennedy’s “New Frontier”Eisenhower’s Farewell Address/Military Industrial ComplexThurgood Marshall becomes 1st African American to be nominated to the Supreme CourtU-2 IncidentGideon v. WainwrightEscobedo v. IllinoisGriswold v. ConnecticutMiranda v. ArizonaBay of PigsBerlin Wall goes upAlan Shepard becomes 1st American in SpaceCuban Missile CrisisBirth Control Pills for married couplesKennedy is assassinatedElection of 1964The Other AmericaCivil Rights Act of 1964Voting Rights Act of 1965Students for a Democratic Society(SDS)/Port Huron StatementImmigration Act of 1965Gulf of Tonkin ResolutionTet OffensiveElection of 1968WoodstockThe Feminine MystiqueNational Organization for Women/NOWCesar Chavez/United Farm WorkersAmerican Indian Movement/AIMStonewall Riots“Peace with Honor” in VietnamMy Lai MassacreRachel Carson’s Silent SpringGreensboro, NC Sit In“Freedom Riders”March on Washington/”I have a Dream” speech24th amendmentMarch on SelmaFreedom SumerBlack Panther Party formedWatts Riots in LAMLK Jr. is assassinatedRoe v. WadeElection of 1972Title IXPentagon PapersEqual Rights AmendmentParis Peace AccordsFall of SaigonNixon goes to ChinaSALT IBakke v. Board of Regents of CaliforniaEarth DayCreation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Yom Kippur WarWar Powers Act PassedNixon ResignedGerald Ford becomes PresidentFord pardons NixonElection of 1976Camp David AccordsSoviets invade AfghanistanIranian Hostage CrisisJerry Falwell/Moral MajorityElection of 1980Immigration Reform and Control ActSandra Day O’Connor becomes 1st female Supreme Court JusticeElection of 1984Strategic Defense Initiative/”Star Wars”Boland AmendmentMikhail Gorbachev became new leader of Soviet UnionElection of 1988Berlin Wall comes downEast and West Germany is unitedSoviet Union breaks upClarence Thomas becomes 2nd African American on Supreme CourtElection of 1992Periods
Marshall PlanBerlin Blockade/AirliftKorean WarLBJ’s Great SocietyFighting in VietnamWatergateSALT IISupply-Side Economics (“Reaganomics”)Iran Contra Affair1st Gulf War
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