33-end Flashcards
1
Q
emergency banking relief act
A
1933
2
Q
hundred days congress enacts aaa, tva, holc, nra, and pwa
A
1933
3
Q
cwa est
A
1933
4
Q
us recognizes su
A
1933
5
Q
glass steagall banking reform act
A
1933
6
Q
20th amendment
A
1933
7
Q
21st amendment
A
1933
8
Q
securities and exchange commission authorized
A
1934
9
Q
indian reorganization act
A
1934
10
Q
wpa est
A
1935
11
Q
cio organized
A
1935
12
Q
schechter “sick children” case
A
1935
13
Q
social security act
A
1935
14
Q
second aaa
A
1938
15
Q
reorganization act
A
1939
16
Q
hatch act
A
1939
17
Q
fed securities act
A
1933
18
Q
good neighbor policy
A
1933
19
Q
us marines vacate haiti
A
1934
20
Q
panay incident
A
1937
21
Q
munich conference
A
1938
22
Q
wwii beings in europe with hitler’s invasion of poland
A
1939
23
Q
us invokes 1st peacetime draft
A
1940
24
Q
havana conference
A
1940
25
bases-for-destroyers deal with brit
1940
26
lend-lease act
1941
27
atlantic charter
1941
28
japan attacks pearl harbor
1941
29
us declares war on japan
1941
30
germ declares war on us
1941
31
randolph plans black march on washington
1941
32
fair employment practices commission (fepc) est
1941
33
roosevelt delivers "4 freedoms" speech
1941
34
japanese ams sent to internment camps
1942
35
japan conquers philippines
1942
36
battle of the midway
1942
37
us invades north africa
1942
38
congress of racial equality (core) founded
1942
39
casablanca conference
1943
40
allies invade italy
1943
41
smith connally anti strike act
1943
42
"zoot suit" riots in los angeles
1943
43
race riots in detroit
1943
44
tehran conference
1943
45
korematsu vs us
1944
46
d day invasion of france
1944
47
battle of the bulge
1944-1945
48
roosevelt dies
1945
49
germ surrenders
1945
50
battles of iwo jima and okinawa
1945
51
potsdam conference
1945
52
atomic bombs dropped
1945
53
yalta conference
1945
54
japan surrenders
1945
55
servicemen's readjustment act (gi bill)
1944
56
bretton woods econ conference
1944
57
the common sense book of body and child care published by spock
1945
58
us sends lend lease to su
1945
59
un est
1945
60
nuremberg war crimes trial in germ
1945-1946
61
employment act creates council of econ advisers
1946
62
iran crisis
1946
63
kennan's "long telegram" lays out containment doctrine
1946
64
tokyo war crimes trials
1946-1948
65
truman doctrine
1947
66
marshall plan
1947
67
taft hartley act
1947
68
national security act creates department of defense, nsc, and cia
1947
69
israel founded; us recognizes it
1948
70
alger hiss case begins
1948
71
berlin blockade
1948-1949
72
nato est
1949
73
communists defeat nationalists in china
1949
74
soviets explode their first atomic bomb
1949
75
am econ experiences postwar growth
1950
76
mccarthy red hunt begins
1950
77
mccarran international security bill passed by congress over truman's veto
1950
78
korean war
1950-1953
79
truman fires macarthur
1951
80
rosenbergs convicted of treason
1951
81
us explodes 1st h bomb
1952
82
postwar peak of us birthrate
1957
83
us birthrate falls below replacement level
1973
84
invisible man published
1952
85
cia engineered coup installs shrah of iran
1953
86
stalin dies
1953
87
army mccarthy hearings
1954
88
brown vs board of education
1954
89
seato formed
1954
90
cia sponsored coupin guatemala
1954
91
montgomery bus boycott begins; emergence of mlk
1955
92
geneva summit meeting on vietnam
1955
93
warsaw pact signed
1955
94
af of l merges with cio
1955
95
suez crisis
1956
96
little rock school desegregation crisis
1957
97
civil rights act passed
1957
98
sclc formed
1957
99
eisenhower doctrine
1957
100
su launches sputnik satellites
1957
101
us troops sent to lebanon
1958
102
ndea authorizes loans and grants for science and language education
1958
103
the affluent society published
1958
104
berlin crisis
1958-1959
105
castro seizes power in cuba
1959
106
landrum griffin act
1959
107
alaska and hawaii attain statehood
1959
108
sit in movement for civil rights begins
1960
109
u2 incident sabotages paris summit
1960
110
opec formed
1960
111
european econ community (eec, common market) created by treaty of rome
1957
112
berlin wall built
1961
113
alliance for progress
1961
114
bay of pigs invasion
1961
115
kennedy sends "military advisers" to south vietnam
1961
116
pressure from kennedy results in rollback of steel prices
1962
117
trade expansion act
1962
118
laos neutralized
1962
119
cuban missile crisis
1962
120
france vetoes brit membership in eec
1963
121
anti-diem coup in south vietnam
1963
122
civil rights march in dc
1963
123
kennedy assassinated
1963
124
24th amendment
1964
125
"freedom summer" voter registration in south
1964
126
gulf of tonkin restoration
1964
127
war on poverty begins
1964
128
civil rights act
1964
129
great society legislation
1965
130
voting rights act
1965
131
us troops occupy dominican repub
1965
132
race riots in us cities
1965-1968
133
france withdraws from nato
1966
134
6 day war bt israel and egypt
1967
135
tet offensive
1968
136
worldwide protests
1968
137
mlk and robert kennedy assassinated
1968
138
prague spring crushed by su army
1968
139
stonewall inn riot in nyc
1969
140
astronauts land on moon
1969
141
my lai massacre
1968
142
nixon orders invasion of cambodia
1970
143
kent state and jackson state incidents
1970
144
epa created
1970
145
clean air act
1970
146
pentagon papers published
1971
147
26th amendment
1972
148
nixon visits china and su
1972
149
shanghai communique begins "normalization" of us china relations
1972
150
abm and salt treaties ratified
1972
151
equal rights amendment passes congress (not ratified by states)
1972
152
title IX
1972
153
treaty of paris enacts cease-fire in vietnam and us withdrawal
1973
154
agnew resigns; ford appointed vp
1973
155
war powers act
1973
156
yom kippur war
1973
157
opec oil embargo
1973
158
endangered species act
1973
159
chilean pres salvador allende killed in cia backed coup
1973
160
frontiero vs richardson
1973
161
roe vs wade
1973
162
watergate hearings and investigations
1973-1974
163
nixon resigns
1974
164
opec ends embargo, increases oil prices
1974
165
international energy agency formed
1974
166
milliken vs bradley
1974
167
helsinki records
1975
168
south vietnam falls to communists
1975
169
camp david accords bt egypt and israel
1978
170
us vs wheeler
1978
171
iranian revolt and oil crisis
1979
172
salt ii agreements signed (never ratified by senate)
1979
173
su invades afghanistan
1979
174
iranian hostage crisi
1979-1981
175
us boycotts summer olympics in moscow
1980
176
iran releases am hostages
1980
177
"reaganomics" spending and tax cuts passed
1981
178
o'connor appointed to supreme court
1981
179
recession hits us econ
1982
180
reagan announces sdi plan (star wars)
1983
181
us invasion of grenada
1983
182
su boycotts summer olympics in los angeles
1984
183
gorbachev comes to power in su, announces glasnost and perestroika
1985
184
1st reagan gorbachev summit meeting in geneva
1985
185
iran contra affair revealed
1986
186
2nd reagan-gorbechev meeting in reyjavik
1986
187
us naval escorts begin in persian gulf
1987
188
senate rejects supreme court nom of robert bork
1987
189
stock market plunges 508 points
1987
190
3rd reagan gorbachev meeting in dc; inf treaty signed
1987
191
4th reagan gorbachev meeting in moscow
1988
192
webster vs reproductive health services
1989
193
eastern euro countries oust communist govs
1989
194
berlin wall torn down
1989
195
east and west germ unite
1990
196
ams with disabilities act (ada)
1990
197
persian gulf war
1991
198
thomas appointed to supreme court
1991
199
gorbachev survives coup attempt, resigns and pres
1991
200
su dissolves; repubs form commonwealth of independent states
1991
201
27th amendment
1992
202
panned parenthood vs casey
1992
203
nafta signed
1993
204
repubs win majority in both houses
1994
205
welfare reform bill becomes law
1996
206
clinton-lewinsky scandal
1998
207
us and brit launch military service against iraq
1998
208
house of rep impeaches clinton
1998
209
senate acquits clinton on impeachment charges
1999
210
us normalizes trade relations with china
2000
211
terrorists attack nyc and dc
2001
212
us invades afghanistan
2001
213
usa patriot act passed
2001
214
energy trader enron collapses amid accounting scandals
2001
215
no child left behind act
2002
216
congress authorizes use of force against iraq
2002
217
un security council demands that iraq comply with weapons inspections
2002
218
us invades iraq
2003
219
bush signs drug prescription bill for seniors
2003
220
saddam hussein captured in iraq
2003
221
supreme court narrowly confirms affirmative action
2003
222
iraqi interim gov installed
2004
223
gay marriage controversy erupts
2004
224
saddam hussein executed
2006
225
us troop surge in iraq
2007
