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History311
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Yalta Conference | 1945 |
| Philippines granted independence | `946 |
| Truman Doctrine | 1947 |
| Ferderal employee loyalty program | 1947 |
| House Un-American Activities Committee investigates Hollywood | 1947 |
| Taft-Hartley Act | 1947 |
| Jackie Robinson integrates major league baseball | 1947 |
| Freedom Train exhibition | 1947 |
| Marshall Plan | 1947 |
| The UN adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | 1948 |
| Berlin blockade and airlift | 1948-1949 |
| North Atlantic Treaty Orgnization est. | 1949 |
| Soviet Union tests Atomic Bomb | 1949 |
| People's Republic of China est. | 1949 |
| McCarthy charges that 205 communists work for the State Department | 1953 |
| Korean War | 1950-1953 |
| McCarran Internal Security Act | 1950 |
| NSC-68 issues | 1950 |
| Dennis v. United States | 1951 |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenburg executed for spying | 1953 |
| Army-McCarthy hearings | 1954 |
| Warsaw Pact Organized | 1955 |
| Levittown development starts | 1947 |
| David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd | 1950 |
| Soviet Union explodes hydrogen bomb | 1953 |
| United States explodes first hydrogen bomb | 1952 |
| CIA-led Iranian coup | 1953 |
| Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice | 1953 |
| Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 |
| Geneva Accords with Vietnam | 1954 |
| CIA-led Guatemalan coup | 1954 |
| AFL and CIO merge | 1955 |
| Allen Ginsberg's Howl | 1955 |
| Will Herberg's Protestant-Catholic-Jew | 1955 |
| Montgomery bus boycott | 1955-1956 |
| Southern Christian Leadership Conference organized | 1956 |
| Federal Interstate Highway Act | 1956 |
| Suez crisis | 1956 |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | 1957 |
| Integration of Little Rock's Central High School | 1957 |
| Sputnik Launched | 1957 |
| Jack Kerouac's On the Road | 1957 |
| National Defense Education Act | 1958 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society | 1958 |
| Nixon-Khrushchev "kitchen debate" | 1959 |
| John F. Kennedy elected president | 1960 |
| Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom | 1962 |
| Cuban Revolution | 1959 |
| Young Americans for Freedom founded Greensboro, N.C., sit-in | 1960 |
| Bay of Pigs | 1961 |
| Freedom Rides | 1961 |
| Alliance for Progress | 1961 |
| SDS issues the Port Huron Statement | 1962 |
| Cuban missile crisis | 1962 |
| University of Mississippi integrated | 1962 |
| Rachel Carson's Silent Spring | 1962 |
| Betty Friedan's The Ferminine Mystique | 1963 |
| Medgar Evers killed | 1963 |
| King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" | 1963 |
| March on Washington | 1963 |
| Kennedy assassinated | 1963 |
| Civil Rights Act passed | 1964 |
| Free Speech movement at Berkeley | 1964 |
| Freedom Summer | 1964 |
| Gulf of Tonkin resolution | 1964 |
| Great Society | 1965-1967 |
| Voting Rights Act | 1965 |
| Grisworld v. Connecticut | 1965 |
| Watts riots | 1965 |
| Hart-Celler | 1965 |
| Immigration Reform Act | 1965 |
| National Organization for Women organized | 1966 |
| Tet offensive | 1968 |
| Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated | 1968 |
| Robert Kennedy assassinated | 1968 |
| Richard Nixon elected president | 1968 |
| American Indian Movement founded | 1968 |
| Woodstock festival | 1969 |
| Police raid on Stonewall Bar | 1969 |
| Roe v. Wade | 1973 |
| My Lai massacre | 1968 |
| Oil discovered in Alaska | 1968 |
| United States invades Cambodia | 1970 |
| Ohio National Guard kills four students at Kent State | 1970 |
| United States goes off the gold standard | 1971 |
| Pentagon Papers published | 1971 |
| Nixon travels to the People's Republic of China | 1972 |
| SALT is signed | 1972 |
| Congress approves Title IX | 1972 |
| Congress passes the Equal Rights Amendment for ratification | 1972 |
| Equal Credit Opportunity Act | 1972 |
| War Powers Act | 1973 |
| Paris peace agreement ends war in Vietnam | 1973 |
| OPEC embargo placed on oil to the United States | 1973 |
| CIA-aided Chilean coup | 1973 |
| Nixon resigns in Watergate scandal | 1974 |
| Saigon falls to North Vietnamese Communists | 1975 |
| Jimmy Carter elected president | 1976 |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | 1978 |
| Three Mile Island accident | 1979 |
| Sagebrush Rebellion | 1979 |
| Camp David Accords signed between Isreal and Egypt | 1979 |
| 53 Americans taken hostage in Iran | 1979 |
| Ronald Reagan elected president | 1980 |
| Air traffic controllers strike | 1981 |
| Strategic Defense Initiative introduced | 1983 |
| Iran-Contra affair | 1985-1987 |
| Native American Rights Fund established | 1971 |
| Communism falls in eastern Europe | 1989 |
| U.S.-led Panamanian coup | 1989 |
| Germany reunifies | 1990 |
| Americans with Disabilities Act | 1990 |
| Gulf War | 1991 |
| Dissolution of the Soviet Union | 1991 |
| William Jefferson Clinton elected president | 1992 |
| North American Free Trade Agreement approved | 1993 |
| Israel and Palestine Liberation Organization sign the Oslo Accords | 1993 |
| Republicans victory in Congress; Contract with America Rwandan genocide | 1994 |
| Timothy McVeigh bombs a federal building in Oklahoma City | 1995 |
| Clinton eliminates Aid to Families with Dependant Children | 1996 |
| Telecommunications Act | 1996 |
| Clinton impeached | 1998 |
| Protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization | 1999 |
| Kosovo War | 1999 |
| Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act | 1999 |
| Bush v. Gore | 2000 |
| George W. Bush elected president | 2000 |
| Pan Am flight blow up over Scotland | 1988 |
| World Trade Center bombed | 1993 |
| Kyoto Protocol | 1997 |
| United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania bombed | 1998 |
| Al Queda terrorists attack America | 2001 |
| Bush identifies "axis of evil" | 2002 |
| Department of Homeland Security established | 2002 |
| Supreme Court upholds affirmative action | 2003 |
| Operation Iraqi Freedom | 2003 |
| Saddam Hussein captured | 2003 |
| Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans | 2005 |
| Great Recession begins | 2007 |
| Barack Obama elected president | 2008 |
| Sonia Sotomayor named to Supreme Court | 2009 |
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