Unit 14 timeline

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  • Roosevelt defeats Hoover for Presidency.

  • Bank Holiday.

  • Federal Security Act.

  • United States recognizes Soviet Union.

  • Emergency Baning relief.

  • Beer and wine Revenue Act.

  • FDR torpedoes London Economic Conference.

  • The Hundred Days Congress enacts AAA, TVA, HOLC, NRA, and PWA.

  • Twenty First Amendment.

  • FDR declares Good Neightbor policy toward Latin America.

  • Glass-Steagall Banking System.

  • FHA established.

  • Indian Reorganization Act.

  • Tydings-McDuffie Act provides for Philippines independence on July 4, 1946.

  • WPA established.

  • Mussolini invades Ethiopia.

  • Social Security Act

  • CIO organized.

  • Public Utility Holding Company Act.

  • SOil COnservation and Domestic Allotment.

  • Roosevelt defeats Landon for Presidency.

  • USHA established.

  • Roosevelt announces "Court-packing" plan.

  • Second AAA.

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

  • Reorganization Act

  • Fall of France

  • Hitler invades Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, and Belgium.

  • United States invokes first peace draft.

  • Hitler attacks Soviet Union.

  • U.S. declares war on Japan.

  • Germany declares war on U.S.

  • Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.

  • Atlantic Charter.

  • Japanese AMericans sent to internment camps.

  • United States invades North Africa

  • Japan conquers the Phillipines

  • Battle of Norway

  • Servicemen's Readjustment Act (GI Bill)

  • Roosevelt defeats Dewey for Presidency.

  • Bretton Woods economic conference.

  • Spock publishes "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care."

  • United States ends lend-lease to USSR

  • Roosevelt dies; Truman assumes precidency.

  • Yalta Conference

  • Germany surrenders.

  • United Nations established.

  • Japan surrenders.

  • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • Nuremburg war crimes trials in Germany.

  • Kennan's "Long Telegram" lays out "Containment Doctrine."

  • Employment Act creates Council of Economic Advisers.

  • Iran Crisis

  • Truman Doctrine.

  • Marshall Plan

  • National Security Act creates Department of Defense, National Security Counsil (NSC), and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

  • Taft-Harley Act

  • Tokyo war crimes trials.

  • United States officiolly recognizes Israel "Voice of America" begins radio broadcasts behind iron curtain.

  • Hiss case begins.

  • Truman defeats Dewey for presidency.

  • Berlin Crisis.

  • Communists defeat Nationalists in China.

  • NATO established.

  • American economy begins postwar growth.

  • McCarthy red hunt begins.

  • McCarran Internal Security Bill passed by Congress over Truman's veto.

  • Korean War (1950-1953)

  • Truman fores McArthur

  • Rosenbergs convicted of treason.

  • United States explodes first hydrogen bomb.