APUSH Dates Unit 1-9

1947

Truman Doctrine

1948

The Marshall Plan, which provides for European postwar recovery

1946

Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
Dr. Spock's childcare book was published

1948-1949

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

1949

NATO formed
Chinese Communist Revolution
Russia obtains the nuclear bomb

1955

Warsaw Pact formed

1947-1957

Second Red Scare; lead by Joseph McCarthy during which there was a hunt for communist inside the US government. Eventually this ended when McCarthy accused World War II veterans of being communists.

1951

Duck and Cover PSA created

1950-1953

Korean War

1960

John F. Kennedy elected president

1961

Berlin Wall built
Bay of Pigs invasion

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis
United Farm Workers union established by Cesar Chavez

1959

Cuban Revolution (rise of Fidel Castro)

1964-1975

Vietnam War

1972

Nixon visits China (detente policy)
Title IX established
Watergate occurs during the election

1970

Kent State Protest

1980

Ronald Reagan elected

1983

Grenada invasion

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall

1991

The year of the collapse of the Soviet Union
Persian Gulf War against Saddam Hussein

1956

Federal Aid Highway Act establishing funding of the interstate system

1946-1964

Baby boomer generation was born

1950s

Rise of television culture

1954

Brown v. Board of Education decision reverses "separate but equal" doctrine in schools

1955-1956

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1896

Plessy v. Ferguson, "separate but equal" decision

1963

March on Washington
JFK assassinated
Feminine Mystique published by Betty Friedan

1964

Civil Rights Act passed

1965

Voting Rights Act passed

1966

National Organization for Women (NOW) founded

1973

Roe v. Wade decision to make abortion legal
American Indian Movement took over Wounded Knee

1967

RESPECT released by Aretha Franklin

1969

CCR released Fortunate Son

1976

Jimmy Carter elected President

1978

Camp David Accords signed

1979

Iranian Hostage Crisis begins
Three Mile Island disaster

1985-1987

Iran-Contra Affair

1992

L.A. Riots over the Rodney King beating

1995

Oklahoma City Bombing

1993

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) signed

1998

Bill Clinton's Lewinsky Affair becomes public

2000

Election between Geo. W. Bush and Al Gore
Florida election recounts

2001

9/11 Attacks

2005

Hurricane Katrina

2008

Election of first black president, Barack Obama
Housing Crisis which led to the "Great Recession"

2003-2011

Iraq War

2001-present

War in Afghanistan, America's longest war

2010

Affordable Care Act passed (known as Obamacare)
Citizen's United Decision

2016

Donald Trump elected President

2015

Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage legal throughout the US

1491

Pre-Columbus, Native Americans untouched by European contact

1492

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

1534

Cartier (french explorer) journeys up the St. Lawrence River

1603

Champlain established fur trade in New France

1608

Chaplain created colonial Quebec

1511

First Spanish settlement in Cuba

1521

Cortez conquered the Mexica (Aztecs)

1585

Sir Walter Raleigh founds "lost colony" at Roanoke Island

1607

Jamestown, the first, permanent, English settlement was founded.

1620

Plymouth colony established by English Separatists (Pilgrims)

1630

Puritans found Massachusetts Bay Colony

1619

First Africans arrive in Jamestown &
Virginia House of Burgesses established

1680

Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico

1609-1610

"Starving time" in Virginia

1663

Founding of Carolina Colony

1681

William Penn founds Pennsylvania colony (Quaker refuge)

1632

Maryland (as a Catholic refuge) founded by Lord Baltimore

1739

Stono Rebellion in South Carolina

1730s-1740s

First Great Awakening

1741

Jonathan Edwards preaches "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

1676

Bacon's Rebellion

1754-63

French and Indian War (Seven Years' War)

1754

George Washington attacks the French and the French counterattack Fort Necessity-begins the French and Indian War

1759

Battle of Quebec

1764

Sugar Act

1765

Stamp Act, Creation of Sons of Liberty (in response)

1763

Pontiac's Rebellion, Proclamation Line (in response)

1767

Townshend Acts, Creation of the Daughters of Liberty (in response)

1770

Boston Massacre

1773

Tea Act, Boston Tea Party (in response)

1774

Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress (in response)

1775

Battles of Lexington and Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill

1777

Battle of Saratoga

1781

Battle of Yorktown, Articles of Confederation ratified by every state

1786

Shay's Rebellion

1787

Constitution of the United States was written.

1789

French Revolution begins

1788

U.S. Constitution ratified

1769

Boone begins to explore Kentucky

1811

Battle of Tippecanoe (Battle with natives for the Midwest)

1789-1799

French Revolution

1798

Alien and Sedition Acts

1797

XYZ Affair

1796

Washington's Farewell Address

1800

Jefferson elected

1803

Louisiana Purchase / Marbury v. Madison (Judicial Review)

1804-1806

Lewis and Clark expedition

1807

Embargo Act

1812-1815

War of 1812

1815-1825

Era of Good Feelings (end of War of 1812 to Corrupt Bargain 1824 election)