A Divided Union - Part B Flashcards by Abbie Lomas

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End of WWII

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1945

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Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech

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1946

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Marshall Aid begins in Europe

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1947

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HUAC investigates the Hollywood Ten

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1947

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Alger Hiss on trial

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1948

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Berlin Airlift begins

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1948

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China turns Communist

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1949

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USSR explodes it’s first atomic bomb

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1949

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Rosenbergs’ arrested

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1950

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Korean War begins

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1950

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Dwight D Eisenhower becomes President

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1953

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Rosenbergs’ executed

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1953

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McCarthy’s hearings against the army

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1953

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McCarthy censured by the Senate

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1954

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Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) set up

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1960

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John F Kennedy becomes the President

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1961

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Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique

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1963

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Lyndon B Johnson becomes President

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1963

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Berkley Free Speech Movement

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1964

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American troops sent to Vietnam

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1965

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National Organisation for Women (NOW) set up

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1966

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Richard M Nixon becomes President

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1969

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Four students shit dead at Kent State University

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1970

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Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

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1972

Phyllis Schlafly set up STOP in opposition to the ERA

1972

Watergate break-in

1972

Nixon began his second term as President

1973

Roe vs Wade decision: abortion a constitutional right

1973

War Powers Act

1973

President Nixon resigned; replaced be Gerald Ford

1974

Privacy Act and the Congressional Budget Control Act

1974

Harry S Truman becomes President

1945