Year 12 Revision (dates): In Search of the American Dream: Society and Culture in Change, 1917-80 (pp. 62-87)

The League of Women Voters was set up

1920

A Women's Bureau of Labor was set up

1920

The number of working women went up from 8.3% to 9.8%

Between 1910 and 1940

Civilian Conservation Corps was in operation

1933-42

Eleanor Roosevelt held the White House Conference for unemployed women

30 April 1934

The first Camp Tera was set up

1933

Fannie Peck started to set up a series of Housewives Leagues in Detroit

1930

Selective Training and Service Act

1940

Lanham Act

1941

There were 130,000 children in day care

By 1944

About three million working women in agriculture

June 1943

Black women on nursing courses rose to 2600

1945

Federally funded day-care centres closed down

1946

82% of people thought married women should not work

1936

13% of people thought that married women should not work

1942

Kennedy set up a Commission of Enquiry on the Status of Women

1961

The results of the Commission of Enquiry on the Status of Women were published

1963

Education Act

1958

National Organisation for Women (NOW) set up

30 June 1966

The 'Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement' magazine was set up

March 1968

Strike of women takes place on the 50th anniversary of women getting the vote

26 August 1970

Gloria Steinem's MS Magazine first published

January 1972

Phyllis Schlafly set up a group called STOP ERA to campaign against demands for an Equal Rights Act

1972

Eisenstadt v Baird gave access to contraception to unmarried women as well as married women

1972

Roe v Wade, abortion was federally legalised

22 January 1973

Equal Rights Act was passed

22 March 1972

Fifteen states were still refusing to ratify ERA

1982

United Nations policy of introducing non-discrimination against women in all aspects of life

1979

Immigration Act

1917

The Dillingham Commission made its report on the impact of immigration

1911

Emergency Quota Act

1921

Johnson-Reed Immigration Act

1924

National Origins Forumla

1929

Reverend Jesse Jackson described the US as a soup with chopped ingredients visible as separate bits

1970

Fidel Castro seized Cuba

1959

Kennedy wrote a book called 'A Nation of Immigrants'

1958

The fall of Saigon

1975

The Cuban Adjustment Act

1966

Armed Forces Naturalisation Act

1968

Immigration and Nationality Act

1976

Movies had to conform to the Motion Picture Production Code

1930 to 1966

Almost 50% of homes had gramophones

By 1929

Radio sales had taken off

1935

First radio advertisement aired in New York

August 1922

Radio Act, share out the airwaves

1927

RCA demonstrated the first commercial television at the World's Fair

1939

Public Broadcasting Act

1967

Public Broadcasting Service

1969

Walter Cronkite's critical documentary on Vietnam

1968

CBS showed marines burning the village of Cam Ne to the ground

August 1965

US diplomats and citizens were held hostage in the US embassy in Tehran

November 1979