| Domestic Policy |
Foreign Policy |
Middle
East |
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| 1944 |
Servicemen's
Readjustment Act (a.k.a. G. I. Bill) |
Dumbarton Oaks Conference |
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| Smith v. Allwright |
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| 1945 |
Truman
becomes president (April) |
Yalta
Conference (Feb.) |
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| San Francisco
Conference |
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| Potsdam
Conference |
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| 1946 |
George F.
Kennan's Report |
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| Nuremberg
Trials begin |
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| Indochinese
War begins |
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| 1947 |
"Operation
Dixie" |
Berlin Crisis |
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| Taft-Hartley
Act |
Truman Doctrine (March) |
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| National
Security Act |
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| 1948 |
Election
of
1948 |
Israel becomes a state | |
| 1949 |
Russia
explodes an atomic bomb |
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| Chinese
Communists win civil war |
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| 1950 |
N. Korea
invades S. Korea (June) |
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| Inchon
landing (Sep.) |
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| Chinese
communists enter Korean War (November) |
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| 1951 |
Wake Island
meeting |
Mossadegh elected prime minister of Iran |
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| Truman fires
MacArthur (November) |
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| Peace talks
begin in Pyongyang (Nov.) |
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| 1952 |
Dwight
Eisenhower elected president |
CIA helps
overthrow Mossdegh; Mohemmed Reza Pahlevi becomes Shah of Iran |
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| Col. Gamel
Abdul Nasser takes over in Egypt |
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| 1953 |
Cease-fire signed in Korean Conflict (July) | ||
| Death
of Stalin |
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| 1954 |
Brown v. Bd. of Education |
Fall of
Dienbienphu (April) |
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| 1955 | Montgomery Bus Boycott begins |
Geneva
Conference (US and USSR) |
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| Geneva Accords; partition of Vietnam |
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| 1956 |
Hungarian
Uprising |
Suez Crisis |
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| 1957 |
Little Rock |
Sputnik |
Formation of
Baghdad Pact |
| 1958 |
Passage of
National Defense and Education Act |
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| Creation of
National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) |
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| 1959 |
U-2 incident |
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| Castro
takes over Cuba |
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| 1960 |
Beginning of sit-in movement;
formation of SNCC |
Formation of
National Liberartion Front for South Vietnam (a.k.a. Viet Cong) |
Baghdad Pact
becomes CENTO |
| 1961 |
Freedom Rides |
Bay of Pigs |
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| 1962 |
Passage of
anti-poll tax amendment James Meredith integrates Ole Miss |
Cuban Missile Crisis | |
| 1963 | March on Washington |
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| Assasination
of Kennedy; Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president |
Assasination
of Diem (November) |
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| 1964 |
Freedom Summer |
Tonkin
Gulf
Incident |
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| Civil Rights Act
of 1964 |
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| Tonkin Gulf Resolution | |||
| Lyndon
Johnson elected president |
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| 1965 |
Voting
Rights Act |
Operation
Rolling Thunder |
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| Passage of
Medicare, Medicaid |
Marines land at Da Nang (March) | ||
| Watts Riot |
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| 1966 |
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| 1967 |
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| 1968 |
LBJ declines another term (March) |
Tet
Offensive
(Feb.) |
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| Martin
Luther King assasinated |
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| Robert
Kennedy assasinated (June) |
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| Richard M.
Nixon elected president |
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| 1969 |
secret
bombing of Cambodia |
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| "Vietnamization"
begins |
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| 1970 |
Kent State; Jackson State |
Nixon invades
Cambodia (April-May) |
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