History Civil Rights + Cold War years

HUAC created

1938

Hollywood Ten

1947

Hiss Case

1948-1950

McCarthy’s list

1950

McCarran Act

1950+1952

McCarthy won election - senator

1952

Rosenberg Case

1951-53

McCarthy televised hearings

1953

McCarthy condemed

1954

Brown v Topeka

1954-1955

Revival of KKK

1955

Emmett Till

Aug,1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

1955-56

first CRA

1957

Little Rock Nine

Sept, 1957

Sit-ins

1960

Intro of contraceptive pill

1960

JFK president

1961

Freedom Rides

1961

Commision on Status of Woman

1961

The Meredith Case

1961-62

LBJ is president

1963

Birmingham Peace March

April - May,1963

March on Washington

Aug, 1963

Equal Pay Act

1963

The Feminine Mystique

1963

Mississippi Freedom Summer

1964

second CRA

1964

Berkley Free Speech Movement

1964

Selma

Jan - Mar,1965

VRA

1965

Anti-Vietnam Protests increase

1965

NOW created

1966

March Against Fear

1966

Black Panthers

1966

Olympics

1968

Women’s Lib

late 60s

Race Riots

1964-1968

Nixon

1969

Hippies

1960s

Pentagon Papers leaked

June, 1971

CREEP creation

1972

ERA passed but not ratified

1972

Everyone has accessibilty to contraceptive pill

1972

Trial of White House Plumbers

Jan, 1973

Release of all recordings from White house

5 Aug, 1974

Nixon Resigns + Ford

9 Aug, 1974

Abortion legal w/ limitations - due to Roe v Wade

1973

Mainstream CRM

1966-74

Tehran

Nov, 1943

Yalta

Feb, 1945

Truman

1945

Atlee is PM

1945

UN formed

June, 1945

Potsdam

July-Aug, 1945

Atomic bomb creation US

Aug, 1945

Long Telegram

1946

Nikolav’s Telegram

1946

Iron Curtain

1946

Truman Doctorine

1947

Cominform

1947

Marshall Plan

1948

Berlin Blockade

June, 1948

Berlin Airlift

June, 1948

West + East Germany creation

1949

NATO

1949

Comecon

1949

Atomic bomb creation Sov

1949

Korean War

1950-53

Hydrogen bomb US

1952)

Eisenhower

1953

Khrushchev

1953

Hydrogen bomb Sov

1953

SEATO

1954

Warsaw Pact

1955

Hungarian Uprising

1956

Sov invasion in hungary

Nov, 1956)

ICMB US

1957

ICMB Sov

1957

Berlin Crisis

1958-61

Geneva summit meeting

May, 1959

Camp David summit meeting

Sept, 1959

Paris + U2 incident

May, 1960

Vienna summit meeting

June, 1961

Berlin Wall

Aug, 1961

Cuban Revolution + Missile Crisis

1959-62

Castro rule

1959

Bay of Pigs

April, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

16-28 Oct, 1962

Czechoslovakia

1968-69)

Dubcek rule

1968

Prague Spring

Apr, 1968

Sov invasion in czechoslovakia

Aug, 1968

Brezhnev doc.

Sept, 1968

Hotline

1963

limited test ban treaty - LTBT

1963

Outer Space Treaty

1967

Non-proliferation Treaty

1968