APUSH Cold War Timeline

By jlazau

  • GI Bill

    Gave veterans loans and education
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    Truman's Presidency

  • UN Created

    Made after WW2

  • Truman Doctrine

    Anti-communism pledge. US will protect any country from communism.

  • Levittowns

    Quick, cheap houses which moved many americans into the suburbs
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    The Red Scare

    Starts with his speech saying that he has proof of "communist spys", ends with him being removed as senator and eventually dieing.

  • Marshel Plan

    Gave aid to help europe rebuild after the war

  • Taft-Harley Act

  • Hollywood Trials

    Red Scare intensifies
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    Civil Rights Movement

  • Truman Signs Executive Order 9981

    States that there will be equal opprotunities and treatment for all army services reguardless of race

  • Fair Deal

    Truman's plan.
    Created many domestic reforms to the states

  • NATO Pact Created

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    Rock n' Roll

  • McCarthyism Ohio Paper Speech

    Claims to have a paper with 200+ names of spys

  • N Korea Invades S Korea

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    Korean War

  • US Sends Air Support to S Korea

  • Checkers Speech

    Nixon declares that he has done nothing wrong
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    Eisenhower's Presidency

  • Rosenberg's executed

    Hight of the Red Scare

  • Korean War Peace Treaty Signed

  • McCarthy Army Broadcast

    After this point McCarthy lost credibility and eventually died

  • Brown vs Board of Education

    States seperate schools are NOT equal

  • Rebel Without a Cause

    Movie showing how rebellious the young generation is. It is the image of the Beat Generation

  • Rosa Parks // Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks refuses to leave her seat for a white man, leads to a boycott that lasts for over a year until the busses are desegregated

  • The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

    Movie that shows how people who may have fought in WWII may find a regular life meaningless

  • Little Rock

    Nine black students attempt to go a high school in Little Rock, local police are forced to protect them, but the mob was too big and the federal guard was called in to protect them. After a while ALL schools in the city were closed for a year.

  • Sputnik Launched

    Soviets got to space before the US

  • Kitchen Debates

    Series of debates between Nixon and Khrushchev. First real time that the Us and Soviets have talked personally with eachother.
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    Kennedy's Presidency

  • Peace Corp Created

    Volunteer Program to help developing countries with issues. Usually to spread democrocy and stop communism.

  • Soviets Put the First Person in Space

    Yuri Gagarin

  • Bay of Pigs

    Failed attempt to overthrow Castro in Cuba.

  • Freedom Rides

    Rides in buses from the North to the Deep South to try and intergrate public places along the way.

  • Berlin Wall Built

    A concreate wall had been built in the seperating West and East Berlin. This is the litteral definition of the Iron Curtain

  • US Puts its First Person to Oribt the Earth

    John Glenn

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Nuclear missles found in Cuba supplied by the Soviet Union. Nearly resulted in Nuclear War but was stopped just before anything happened.

  • March on Washington

    200,000 people come to washington to push for civil rights. Marther Luther King's "I have a Dream" speech was given here.

  • Birmingham Church Bombing

    A black church in Birmingham was bombed, four girls were killed with many others injured.

  • JFK Assasinated

    Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with his death.
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    Johnson's Presidency

  • VISTA Program Created

    Organized volunteers who worked in the poor areas of the US

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Prohibits descrimination based on race, color, religion, and orgin. Also gives the government the power to enforce desegregation.

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Gave the President the right to take any actions that he belives will help promote international peace in Southeast Asia (Vietnam)

  • North Vietnam Invades South Vietnam

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    Vietnam War

  • Free Speech Movement

    College students protest to say / write whatever they want in the school.

  • Malcom X Assasinated

    Leader of the Nation of Islam Group

  • March on Selma

    Peaceful march turned violent. Televised showing police gasing and beating protesters.

  • Medicare system created

    Provided insucreace to American senior citizens

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Made voting in the south easier and removed barriers made previously.

  • Johnson's Housing and Urban Development Act

    Organized the building of 250,000 houses and $3 billion for development

  • National Organization for Women Created

  • Tet Offensive

    Vietcong invades many cities in South Vietnam. Although the US / South Vietnam won, it turned American opinion against the war.

  • Marther Luther King Jr. Shot

    James Earl Ray was convicted as the killer

  • Civil Rights Act of 1968

    Made the descrimination of selling, renting, and buying of housing illigal,
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    Nixon's Presidency

  • US Pts First Man on the Moon

  • Woodstock Music Festival

    Most iconic and memorable show of the counter-culture movement.

  • Kent State University Shootings

    Massive protest at the university resulting in 4 students being killed.

  • Pentagon Papers Released to the Public

    Revealed that the goverment has been lying to the public about the war in Vietnam,

  • Nixon visits Communist China

    Decided that trade talks, cultral extanges, and admission of China into the UN would begin.

  • SALT I Treaty

    Agreement to not produce any more nukes and to reduce their nukes to only 200 per side

  • Watergate Affair

    Nixion's administration is caught spying and tampering with other opponents.

  • Roe vs Wade

    Stated that abortion is legal

  • Last American Troops leave Vietnam

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    Ford's Presidency

  • End of the Vietnam War

    North Vietnam takes the South Vietnam capital

  • Ford Pardons Nixon

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    Carter's Presidency

  • National Energy Act

    Taxed cars that were not energy efficient and deregulated prices of local oil and gas

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis

    Took over US embassy because the US treated Shah for cancer.

  • Soviet Union Invades Afghanistan

    Carter responds by not allowing athlethes to compete in the 1980 Moscow Olimpics

  • iran hostage crisis rescue mission

    The mission was a failure because the helicopters crashed before it could even get to the embassy.
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    Reagan's Presidency

  • Assasination Atempt on Regan

    Gained popularity after that.

  • Sandra Day O'Connor First Woman Surpreme Court Justice

  • Us Ivades Grenada

    Was recently in a civil war, and a communist leader had been planted.
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    Iran-Contra Affair

    Regan's administration sells weapons to Iran (which was embargo'd) and gave the money to the contras which was fighting the Nicaraguas

  • US bombs Libyan aire bases

    Ordered Libyan gunboats to challege American ships sailing close to Libya

  • Tax Reform Act of 1986

    Dramatically reduced the federal tax rates

  • "Tear Down This Wall" Speech

    At this point, the Soviet Union has crumbled and communism in most of the world fell.

  • Black Monday

    Average price for a shock fell nearly 20%