APUSH unit 8 dates

Post-war division of Germany/Berlin; United Nations established.

1945

Truman Doctrine (Containment policy begins); Marshall Plan announced.

1947

Berlin Airlift; Executive Order 9981 ending racial segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces

1948

NATO formed; USSR detonates first atomic bomb; Chinese Communist Revolution.

1949

Korean War begins; McCarthyism peaks

1950

Armistice in Korea; CIA-backed coup in Iran (Operation Ajax).

1953

Brown v. Board of Education (End of "separate but equal")

1954

Montgomery Bus Boycott begins (Rosa Parks).

1955

Interstate Highway Act; Suez Crisis.

1956

Little Rock Nine (Integration of Central High); Sputnik launched by USSR.

1957

Greensboro Sit-ins; JFK elected (first televised debates).

1960

Bay of Pigs Invasion; Eisenhower’s "Military-Industrial Complex" farewell address.

1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

March on Washington ("I Have a Dream"); JFK assassinated; The Feminine Mystique published.

1963

Civil Rights Act of 1964; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Escalation in Vietnam).

1964

Voting Rights Act of 1965; LBJ’s Great Society begins; Immigration Act of 1965.

1965

Black Panther Party formed; NOW (National Organization for Women) founded.

1966

Tet Offensive; Assassinations of MLK Jr. and RFK; Democratic National Convention riots.

1968

Apollo 11 Moon Landing; Stonewall Riots (LGBTQ+ rights movement).

1969

First Earth Day; Kent State Shootings; Invasion of Cambodia.

1970

Pentagon Papers published.

1971

Nixon visits China (Détente); SALT I Treaty signed; Watergate break-in.

1972

Roe v. Wade; Paris Peace Accords (U.S. leaves Vietnam); OPEC Oil Embargo.

1973

Resignation of Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford becomes President.

1974

Fall of Saigon (Official end of the Vietnam War).

1975

America’s Bicentennial

1976

Jimmy Carter inaugurated.

1977

Camp David Accords (Peace between Egypt and Israel).

1978

Iran Hostage Crisis begins; Three Mile Island nuclear accident; Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

1979

Election of Ronald Reagan (The "Conservative Resurgence" begins).

1980