apush time periods 8&9 sequencing

1945

UN created (how was it different from the League of Nations)

1947

Levittown & Suburbanization (include roles for women)

1947

National Security Act

1947 & 1948

Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan

1948

Truman’s Fair Deal

1948

Berlin Blockade & Airlift

1940s & 1950s

HUAC & Red Scare (include Alger Hiss, McCarthy, the Hollywood 10, and the Rosenbergs)

1953

CIA sponsored coup in Iran

1954

Brown v. Board of Education (ruling & reaction)

1955

Murder of Emmitt Till

1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott (causes & effects)

1956

Federal Highway Act

1957

NASA established

1957

Little Rock Nine

1960

Election of 1960 (include JFK’s inauguration & New Frontier)

1960s

JFK & McNamara advocate a “flexible response”

1961 & 1962

Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

Betty Friedan writes Feminine Mystique

1963

March on Washington Civil Rights Acts (1964, 1965 & 1968) → include what led to the passage of each

1964

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1960s

Protests against Vietnam War

1965

Johnson’s Great Society

1960s

Radicalization of the Civil Rights Movement (include Malcolm X & Black Panthers)

1968

Tet Offensive

1971

Pentagon Papers leaked by Daniel Ellsberg/Credibility Gap

1972

Nixon visits China/Detente

1973

US troops withdraw from Vietnam

1973

OPEC embargo

1974

Nixon Resigns due to Watergate

1978

Jimmy Carter brokers Camp David Accords

1979

SALT II signed (should explain SALT I also)

1979

Moral Majority formed

1980s

Reaganomics

1983

Star Wars (Strategic Defense Initiative)

1987

Iran Contra Scandal revealed

1989

Fall of Berlin Wall

1991

Persian Gulf War

1994

NAFTA created

1999

Clinton’s Impeachment

2000

Election of 2000/Bush v. Gore

2001

9/11 & Patriot Acts & the War on Terror

2003

Operation Iraqi Freedom

2005

Hurricane Katrina

2008 – Election of Barack Obama

2008/09 – Great Recession

2010

Affordable Care Act

2017

Election of Donald Trump

2020 – Covid 19 Pandemic

2020

Election of Joe Biden/January 6 Capitol Attack