A Divided Union: Other Issues

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  • Harry S Truman Became President

  • End of WW2

  • Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech

  • Marshall Aid Begins in Europe

  • HUAC investigates Hollywood Ten

    Red Scare
    Builds scare as people believe communism has influence in media.

  • Berlin Airlift Begins

    Red Scare

  • Alger Hiss Trial

    Red Scare
    Imprisoned on charge of perjury. (High-ranking official in state department)

  • USSR explodes its first Atomic Bomb

    Red Scare
    Communist countries have power

  • China Turns Communist

    Red Scare
    Communism is spreading

  • Rosenbergs Arrested

    Red Scare
    Communists seen as infiltrating America
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    Korean War

    Red Scare
    Communism Spreading

  • Dwight D Eisenhower become President

  • Rosenbergs Executed

    Red Scare
    (Same as arrest)

  • McCarthy Hearings against the Army

    Red Scare
    Sporadic accusations lose credability

  • Censure of Senator McCarthy

    Red Scare
    McCarthyism Ends

  • SDS Set up

    Student Protests
    Main Group that lead student movement

  • JFK Beomes President

  • Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique

    Women's Movement
    Encouraged women to break the stereotypical housewife image.

  • Lyndon B Johnson Becomes President

  • Berkeley Free Speech Movement

    Student Movement
    Sit-ins against the ruling of the university about politics

  • Americal Troops sent to Vietnam

    Student Movement
    What they wanted to stop. Led to burning cards conscription cards

  • NOW set up

    Women's Movement
    Main Group in the movement

  • Nixon Becomes President

    Watergate Scandal
    Nixon Responsible for Scandal

  • Kent State Shootings

    Students Movement
    4 students at Kent state shot dead as a result of riots

  • Congress passed the ERA

    Women's Movement
    Women had equal rights across America

  • Phyllis Schafly sets up STOP

    Women's Movement
    STOP was in opposition as it was belied the ERA would disadvantage housewives (open to drafting and unisex bathrooms)

  • Watergate Break In

    Watergate Scandal
    CREEP broke into the Watergate building and and stole informationa nd planted bugs.

  • Nixon Begins Second Term

  • Roe vs Wade

    Women's Movement
    Abortion ruled constitutional right

  • War Powers Act

    Watergate Scandal
    Presidents need vote through congress to declare war

  • Congressional Budget Control and Impoundment Act

    Watergate Scandal
    Controlled the presidents use of government money

  • President Nixon resigned and replace by Gerald Ford

    Watergate Scandal
    Nixon was no longer in office. US citizens have less trust in the government (Jimmy Carter - "I will not tell a lie")

  • Privacy Act passed

    Watergate Scandal
    Gave citizens the right to view any files kept on them