1950
Political- Foreign/Military
Atoms for peace
Brinksmanship
John Foster Dulles
NSC-68
“New Look” defense programs
CIA Covert Action, Guatemala
Geneva Accords/SEATO/Ngo Dinh Diem
Suez Crisis/Eisenhower Doctrine
1950
Korean War
Causes
Douglas MacArthur
Chinese Intervention
Ceasefire/Results
Military operations/Battles/Campaigns
1950
1950
1950
1950
PowerPoint
Icons
Cultural
Television/Television programs
Automobiles
“silent generation”
Billy Graham/Norman Vincent Peale
Jackson Pollock
Rock and Roll/Beatniks
Sputnik/NASA/NDEA
Political-Domestic
McCarthyism
Election of 1952
Election of 1956
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Southern Manifesto
Civil Rights Acts of 1957 + 1960
McCarran Internal Security Act
Rosenbergs
Social-Economic
The Other America/Michael Harrington
Dynamic conservation
Baby Boom/Dr. Spock
Brown -v- Board of Education
Little Rock Central High School
Interstate Highway Act
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Affluent Society/Galbraith
Suburbia/Sunbelt/Domesticity
1960
1960
1960
1960
1960
1960
1960
Vietnam/SE Asia
Laos
Viet Cong
Assassination of Diem
Gulf of Tonkin incident + resolution
Operation Rolling Thunder/Hawks + Doves
Tet Offensive
My Lai Massacre
Vietnamization/Nixon Doctrine
PowerPoint
Icons
Political-Foreign/Military
Military-industrial complex
U-2 Incident (1960)
Flexible response/Green Berets
Peace Corp
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs/Cuban Missile Crisis
Six-days war (1967)/PLO
Social-Economic
Rachel Carson/Silent Spring/Clean Air Act
“War on Poverty”/Economic Opportunity Act
Job Corps/VISTA
ESEA/Medicaid +Medicare
Due page 885 chart for other programs/acts
Ralph Nader/auto + highway safety
Women’s Movement /Friedan/NOW
Political-Domestic
1960 Election
1964 Election
1968 Election
JFK Assassination
“New Frontier”/Space Program/Moon Landing
LBJ’s “Great Society”
1968 Assassinations
Civil Rights
Supreme Court Cases: Baker, Miranda, etc. (See p. 886 chart)
Freedom Riders/SNCC/James Meredith
March on Washington/Civil Rights Act of 1964
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
Voting Rights Act of 1965/24th Amendment
Race Riots/Black Power/Malcolm X
Cesar Chavez/La Causa
Cultural
Youth Movement
New Left/SDS
Counter-culture
Rock and Roll/Music Revolution
Sexual Revolution
1970
1970
1970
1970
1970
1970
Political-Foreign/Military
Yom Kippur War/Arab-oil Embargo
End of the military draft
Chile/Salvador Allende
Shuttle Diplomacy
Camp David Accords
Panama Canal Treaty
SALT II
Carter’s Human Rights Agenda
Iranian Revolution
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
PowerPoint
Icons
Cultural
Music (Disco)
“Silver Age” of Film
“Me” Generation
Computers (See page 940-941)
“Gay Pride”/Harvey Milk
“Right to Life” Movement
Social-Economic
EPA/OSHA
Stagflation
Women’s Lib/ERA/Roe -v- Wade/”Glass Ceiling”
Three Mile Island/China Syndrome
Love Canal
National Chains (i.e., Walmart/McDonalds)
Bakke -v- US
Wage and Price Control
Vietnam/SE Asia/Détente
Vietnamization/Nixon Doctrine
Migration of Cambodia/Kent State
1972 Christmas Bombings
Davis Peace Accords
Détente/Opening to China
SALT I/ABM Treaty
Fall of Saigon/Mayaguez Incident
Political-Domestic
Election of 1972
Watergate Scandal/Nixon Resignation
Election of 1976
Southern Strategy
1980
1980
1980
1980
1980
1980
1980
Technology
Space Shuttle Programs/Challenger
Personal Computers
Internet (1990’s on)
Telecommunications
Genetic Engineering
Economic
Decline of Family Farms/Farm Aid
Reaganomics/Deregulation/Tax Cuts
Reagan Recession
Bull Market/Ivan Boesky
SNL Crisis
PowerPoint
Icons
Political-Domestic
Election of 1980/Reagan Revolution
Election of 1984/”Morning in America”
Election of 1988/George HW Bush
Sandra Day O’Connor
Democratic Leadership Council (DLC)
Assassination attempt on Reagan
“Rainbow Coalition”
Cultural
Moral Majority/Jerry Falwell/Pat Robertson
Cosby Show
Nuclear War Threat
Yuppies
Movies
Music
Art
Political-Foreign
Military Buildup
Anti-Nuclear Protest
SDI
Reagan Doctrine/Afghanistan/Nicaragua
Iran Contra Affair
START/INF Treaty
Middle East War and Terrorism
Collapse of Soviet Bloc
“Evil Empire” Speech
South Africa Sanctions
Social
Death of ERA
AIDS Crisis
Exxon Valdez disaster
“Sagebrush” Rebellion
New Immigration Patterns
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986