APUSH Unit 8 Timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 3 Apr 2021
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Created byManareldeen Fajors
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German Surrender, Dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese Surrender
(Politcal)G.I. Bill passed
(Economic)Truman Doctrine (communist containment) announced, $400 million in military aid to Greece and Turkey,
(Economic)Formation of North American Treaty Organization (NATO)
(Diplomatic)Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
(Social)Cuban Missile Crisis
(Diplomatic)Election of John F. Kennedy
(Political)Civil Rights Act of 1964
(Political)Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
(Political)Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(Social)Malcolm X Assassinated
(Social)Voting Rights Act of 1965
(Social)Publication of Pentagon Papers in The New York Times
(Intellectual/Cultural)Resignation of Nixon
(Political)Iranian students seize US embassy; hold staff hostage for over a year
(Social)Election of Ronald Reagan
(Political)Iran-Contra hearings
(Politcal)Collapse of the Soviet Union
(Social)Election of George H.W. Bush
(Political)Camp David Accords
(Social)Woodstock Festival
(Intellectual/Cultural)Supreme Court decision in Bakke v. University of California
(Social)United States boycotts Moscow Olympics
(Diplomatic)Interstate Highway Act
(Economic)Opec Oil Embargo
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