In Search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917- 96 OVERVIEW
Category: Outro
Atualizado: 4 jun 2018
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Created bySteven Frain
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1917 USA enters WWI1917 Russia becomes communist1918 WWI ends1929 Wall Street Crash1941 Germany declares war on the USA1941 USA declares war on Japan1941 Japanese attack US fleet at Pearl Harbour1945 WWII ends in Europe1945 US drops atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
the war in the pacific ends1965 First US troops into Vietnam1969US astronauts land on the moon1975 Complete American withdrawal from Vietnam'Red Summer' race riots1931 Scottsboro Case1936 Over 100,000 black protesters ready to march on Washington
-demands were met1946 Truman's President's Committe on Civil Rights1948 Desegregation of military1954 Brown v Board of Education; desegregation of schools1963 Protests to desegregate Birmingham1964 Civil Rights Act1965 Voting Rights Act (amendment)1977 Harvey Milk elected to office1921 Emergency Quota Act1920 Women get the vote under the same conditions as men1961 Kennedy sets up Commission on the Status of Women1963 Equal Pay Act1965 Immigration and Nationality Act1939 First commercial television1968 Assassination of MLK1947 First Levittown home on sale1933 Inauguration of Roosevelt with the 'New Deal'Períodos
1919-20 First Red Scare1929-39 The Great Depression1947-54 Second Red Scare1950-53 Korean War1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott1980-82 Economic Recession1979-80 Second fuel crisis1973-74 Fuel crisis1973-75 Stagflation
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