The cold war and america land of freedom

193 indian reorganisation act

Jun 18, 1934

cold war and land of freedom

Period: Jun 18, 1934 to Aug 11, 1978

WWII

Period: Sep 1, 1939 to May 7, 1945

Executive orders

Jun 25, 1941

America entered WWII

Dec 8, 1941

Bracero Program

Period: Jan 1, 1942 to Dec 31, 1964

Detroit riots

Jun 20, 1943

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

Yalta conference

Feb 4, 1945

Iwa jima

Feb 19, 1945

America's first atomic bomb

Jul 16, 1945

Potsdam conference

Jul 16, 1945

Hiroshima bombings

Aug 6, 1945

Greek civil war

Mar 1, 1946

US and Britain combined berlin

Jan 1, 1947

Hollywood 10

Nov 25, 1947

Czechoslovakia becomes communist

Feb 1, 1948

Berlin blockade

Period: Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949

End of segregation in the armed forces

Jul 26, 1948

German democratic republic created

Period: Jan 1, 1949 to Dec 31, 1949

COMECON created

Period: Jan 1, 1949 to Jan 31, 1949

NATO founded

Apr 4, 1949

USSR make the Atomic bomb

Aug 29, 1949

McCarthy list of 205 communists

Feb 9, 1950

Rosenbergs convicted

Mar 29, 1951

Batista to power

Mar 10, 1952

USA invent the Hydrogen bomb

Nov 1, 1952

Brown vs Topeka

Period: Dec 9, 1952 to May 17, 1954

Stalin dies

Mar 5, 1953

Rosenbergs executed

Jul 19, 1953

Hernandez vs Texas

Period: Jan 11, 1954 to May 3, 1954

Little Rock nine

May 17, 1954

Warsaw Pact

May 14, 1955

Vietnam becomes indipendant

Oct 23, 1955

Vietnam War

Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975

USSR create the atomic bomb

Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Nov 30, 1955

start of Montgomery bus boycott

Dec 4, 1955

lasted 381 days

Fidel Castro overthrow attempt of Cuba

Dec 2, 1956

Southern Christian Leadership Conferance (SCLC)

Feb 14, 1957

Voting rights

Sep 9, 1957

Castro overthrows Batista

Jan 8, 1959

Krushchev visits USA

Sep 15, 1959

Sit ins in Woolworths

Feb 1, 1960

1960 civil rights act- voting supervisions

Feb 29, 1960

Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee set up (SNCC)

Period: Apr 15, 1960 to Apr 17, 1960

The Pill

Jun 23, 1960

Enough bombs to destroy the world

Period: Jan 1, 1961 to Dec 31, 1961

John F. Kennedy is President

Period: Jan 20, 1961 to Nov 17, 1963

kennedy authorizes bay of pigs invasion

Period: Feb 1, 1961 to Feb 28, 1961

Bay of pigs

Period: Apr 17, 1961 to Apr 19, 1961

freedom rides

Period: May 4, 1961 to May 17, 1961

The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women

Dec 14, 1961

United Farm workers Union founded

Period: Mar 1, 1962 to Mar 31, 1962

U-2 planes detect missiles in Cuba

Oct 14, 1962

US change policy in Vietnam

Period: Jan 1, 1963 to Dec 31, 1963

happens some time in the middle of the year

"Feminine mystique" published

Feb 19, 1963

Birmingham victory

Period: May 1, 1963 to Jun 30, 1963

Equal pay act

Jun 10, 1963

Kremlin- White House hotline

Jun 20, 1963

250,000 march on Washington - MLK "i have a dream" speech

Aug 28, 1963

Kennedy assasinated

Nov 22, 1963

Johnson in power

Period: Nov 22, 1963 to Jan 20, 1969

Martin Luther King gets the nobel peace prize

Period: Jan 1, 1964 to Dec 31, 1964

Malcom x leaves the Nation of Islam

Mar 8, 1964

Freedom summer starts

Period: Jun 1, 1964 to Jun 30, 1964

started some time in June. Lasted 10 weeks.

Civil rights act

Jul 2, 1964

Malcom X Killed by NofI

Feb 21, 1965

Bloody Sunday- Alabama marches

Mar 7, 1965

Voting rights Act

Aug 6, 1965

Watts riots- California

Period: Aug 11, 1965 to Aug 15, 1965

Imigration Act

Oct 3, 1965

"Black power"

Jun 16, 1966

NOW ~Mational Organizarion for Women

Jun 30, 1966

North Chicago marches

Period: Jul 1, 1966 to Aug 31, 1966

Black Panters founded

Oct 15, 1966

A number of Grape Boycotts

Period: Jan 1, 1967 to Dec 31, 1970

Riots in Newark

Period: Jul 12, 1967 to Jul 17, 1967

Detroit riots

Jul 23, 1967

MALDEF- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

Period: Jan 1, 1968 to Dec 31, 1968

founded some time in this year. date unknown

Miss America protests

Period: Jan 1, 1968 to Dec 31, 1969

AIM- African Indian Movement

Mar 6, 1968

MLK assasinated

Apr 4, 1968

Nixon encourages African-American Buisnesses

Period: Jan 1, 1969 to Dec 31, 1969

Roe vs Wade

Period: Dec 13, 1971 to Jan 22, 1973

ERA- Equal Rights Amendment

Mar 22, 1972

Title IX of the education amendments act

Jun 23, 1972

Trail of broken treaties

Period: Oct 1, 1972 to Nov 30, 1972

started some time in October, ended early November

Wounded knee

Feb 27, 1973

Lasted 71 days. 2 killed

Boldt Decision

Period: Jan 1, 1974 to Dec 31, 1974

happened some time in this year. date unknown.

Agricultual labour relations act

Jun 5, 1975

Hyde amendment

Sep 30, 1976

Indian religious freedon act

Aug 11, 1978