Timeline - Final Flashcards
(36 cards)
US scheduled to Withdraw troops from Afghanistan
2014
US military Kills Osama bin Laden
May 2011
Terrorists crash planes into the World Trade Center
September 2011
Operation Entebbe
July 1976
- Israeli Military operation to rescue hostages aboard Air France Flight to Jerusalem
- U.S. looked up to military might of Israel - this contributed to changes in U.S Foreign Policy.
The Six Days War
June 1967
- War that took 6 days for Israel to take Gaza and west bank from the Palestinians
Iran-Iraq War
September 1980-June1988
- Began with Iraq invading Iran
- Disrupted negotiations regarding the release of American Hostages
Iranian Revolution
January 1979 - February 1979
- Beginning with the overthrow of the Shah
Iranian Hostage Crisis
November 1979
- The students overtook the American embassy in response to the Shah coming to America for Cancer treatment
Koop Delivers speech at Liberty University
January 1987
- Speech on AIDs
California passed Proposition 8
November 2008
- Prop 8 overturned law allowing same-sex marriage in CA
Stuart Matis commits suicide
2000
- Relates to sentimental politics and politicization of gay mormon suicides
The Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography releases its reports
1970
- Set up by LBJ in response to Supreme Court 1969 Decision
- reported that obscenity and pornography were not important social factors
- criticized and rejected by congress
- emphatically rejected by Nixon
Congressional battle over LBJ’s Nomination of Abe Fortas for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1968
- Due to the close relationship between LBJ and Fortas
- Also because of ethical matters that came to light
- LBJ urged Goldberg to Retire to push Fortas into the position
Mormon Church allows black church leaders
1978
- Continuing revelation
Mormon church abolished polygamy
1890
- Group of Mormon Fundamentalists break off from LDS and Continue to practice practice polygamy
- Continuing revelation
Jerry Falwell publishes “If I Should Die Before I Wake”
1986
- Pro-life Literature
- Evangelical Christianity (Idea of Born-again Christian)
Women’s Suffrage
1920
- 19th Amendment
- Gave women the right to vote in elections
Publication of “The Fundamentals”
1910-1915
- The fundamentals- series of pamphlets (fundamentalist vs. modernist)
- a return to the fundamentals of Christianity
- Argues that the world had gone too liberal and secular
- Increased interest in having morality as part of politics
- Today: not just attributed to christianity anymore; also to muslim
Elijah Muhammad dies
1975
- Successor was W.D. Muhammad (Son) who proceeded to disband the Nation of Islam in 1976
Muhammad Ali refuses to enter military service
April 1967
- Cited religious reasons for not going to Vietnam
- Was not given conscientious objector status
- charged and sentences for draft evasion; didn’t go to war while charge was on appeal for 3 years
Roe v. Wade
1973
- the right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th amendment extended to a women’s decision to have an abortion
- trimester framework utilized
Second Vatican Council
1962-1965
- Allowed literature/masses to be printed/recited in vernacular
- established position against BC
Nixon Resign as President
1974
- instigated by the Watergate scandal in 1972
- showed the immorality of politics; people were more upset about the cover up than the actual events
- resigned in order to avoid sure impeachment pardoned by successor Ford
Nixon wins the presidential election for the first time
1968
- Republican Candidate Nixon beats Herbert Humphrey
