Unit 7 Timeline - Chapters 27-31 By sarahelishevitz Period: 1930 to 1970 Unit 7 Timeline - Chapters 27-31 1933 Congress passes the Beer-Wine Revenue Act 1933 Congress creates the Tennessee Valley Authority 1933 Congress establishes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 1933 Congress creates the Civil Works Administration 1933 Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany 1933 Congress passes the Emergency Banking Relief Act 1933 Congress establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps 1935 President Roosevelt creates the Works Progress Administration 1 1935 Congress passes the Wagner Act 1937 Panay incident 1937 Social Security goes into effect 1938 Hitler forces the Anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany 1939 John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath is published 1939 Soviet Union agrees to a nonaggression pact with Germany 1939 German troops invade Poland 1940 Richard Wright’s Native Son is published 1940 Battle of Britain 1940 Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact Dec 7, 1941 Japanese launch surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii 1942 Battle of Midway 1943 Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff meet at Casablanca 1943 Allied forces land on Sicily 1943 Roosevelt and Churchill meet Stalin, in Tehran 1944 Congress passes the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) 1944 Congress passes the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights) Jun 6, 1944 D-day 1945 Yalta Conference 1945 Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies; Hitler commits suicide 1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 Fifty nations at war with the Axis Powers sign the United Nations Charter May 8, 1945 V-E day Sep 2, 1945 Japanese surrender 1947 Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Labor Act 1947 National Security Council (NSC) is established 1948 Truman issues an executive order ending segregation in the U.S. armed forces 1948 Israel is proclaimed an independent nation 1948 Allied forces begin airlifting supplies to West Berlin 1948 Truman defeats Dewey in the presidential election 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is created 1949 China “falls” to communism 1950 United States and other UN members go to war in Korea 1952 Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is published 1953 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are executed 1953 Armistice is reached in Korea 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings are televised 1954 Supreme Court issues ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 1954 Geneva Accords adopted 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott begins 1956 In Suez War, Israel, Britain, and France attack Egypt 1956 Hungarian revolt against the Warsaw Pact is quickly suppressed 1957 Federal troops ordered to protect students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 1957 Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is published 1957 Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is published 1960 U-2 incident reveals that the United States is flying spy planes over the Soviet Union 1960 Students in Greensboro, North Carolina, stage a sit-in to demand service at a “whites-only” lunch counter 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco 1961 Soviets erect the Berlin Wall 1962 October 1962 Cuban missile crisis 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 1963 John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas 1964 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act 1964 Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf resolution 1965 Riots break out in the African American community of Watts, California 1965 Malcolm X is assassinated by a rival group of black Muslims 1968 Viet Cong stages the Tet offensive 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated 1968 Robert Kennedy is assassinated
