In Search of the American Dream: The USA, 1917-96

I've picked out some key dates & events from the course and put them in order. (Unless the site jumbles them automatically they should be in chronological order) There are over 50 cards, covering politics, civil rights, culture & the economy

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1913-21 (President)
Woodrow Wilson
1 of 54
1917-32 (Civil Rights)
The Great Migration
2 of 54
1917 (Politics)
USA enters WW1; Bolshevik Revolution; "Red Summer"
3 of 54
1918-21 (Economy)
Post-war depression
4 of 54
1919-20 (Politics)
The First Red Scare
5 of 54
1920 (Society & Culture)
Women awarded the suffrage; Emergency Quota Act
6 of 54
1921-23 (President)
Warren G Harding
7 of 54
1923-29 (President)
Calvin Coolidge
8 of 54
1927 (Society & Culture)
The Jazz Singer - first movie with sound; The Radio Act
9 of 54
1929-33 (President)
Herbert Hoover
10 of 54
1929 (Economy)
Wall Street Crash
11 of 54
1930 (Society & Culture)
The Hays Code
12 of 54
1932 (Politics)
The Bonus Army
13 of 54
1933-45 (President)
Franklin D Roosevelt
14 of 54
1938-9 (Economy)
"Roosevelt Recession"
15 of 54
1939 (Politics)
Outbreak of WW2 in Europe
16 of 54
1941 (Politics; Civil Rights)
Pearl Harbour causes the USA to enter WW2; A. Phillip Randolph threatens to march on Washington
17 of 54
1945-53 (President)
Harry S Truman
18 of 54
1945 (Politics)
USA drops atom bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki; WW2 ends
19 of 54
1946 (Civil Rights)
Truman sets up President's Committee on Civil Rights
20 of 54
1947-54 (Politics)
The Second Red Scare
21 of 54
1947 (Economy)
First Levittown homes put up for sale - start of the suburbs
22 of 54
1948 (Civil Rights)
Truman desegregates the military
23 of 54
1950-53 (Politics)
The Korean war
24 of 54
1952 (Society & Culture)
Immigration & Nationality Act extended to include refugees
25 of 54
1953-61 (President)
Dwight D Eisenhower
26 of 54
1953-58 (Society & Culture)
Operation *******
27 of 54
1954 (Politics; Civil Rights)
Televised report exposed McCarthy; Brown v. Board
28 of 54
1955 (Civil Rights)
Emmett Till murder; Montgomery Bus Boycott
29 of 54
1957 (Civil Rights)
Little Rock Crisis
30 of 54
1960 (Civil Rights)
Greensboro Sit-ins
31 of 54
1961-63 (President)
John F Kennedy
32 of 54
1961 (Civil Rights)
Freedom Rides
33 of 54
1962 (Politics; Civil Rights)
First US troops into Vietnam; Illinois becomes 1st US state to repeal anti-homosexuality laws
34 of 54
1963 (Politics; Civil Rights; Society & Culture)
JFK assassinated; Birmingham Protests; The Feminine Mystique published; Equal Pay Act
35 of 54
1963-69 (President)
Lyndon B Johnson
36 of 54
1964 (Civil Rights)
Mississippi Freedom Summer; Civil Rights Act
37 of 54
1965 (Civil Rights; Society & Culture)
Lowndes County Freedom Organisation founded; Immigration quotas abolished; Watts riots; Voting Rights Act
38 of 54
1966 (Civil Rights; Society & Culture)
The Northern Crusade; NOW founded
39 of 54
1967 (Civil Rights)
The Brown Berets founded
40 of 54
1968-9 (Civil Rights)
Ghetto riots
41 of 54
1968 (Politics; Civil Rights)
The Cronkite Report; MLK assassinated
42 of 54
1969-74 (President)
Richard M Nixon
43 of 54
1969 (Politics; Civil Rights; Society & Culture)
The draft introduced for the Vietnam War; Stonewall Inn riot; PBS set up
44 of 54
1970 (Society & Culture)
Major women's strike
45 of 54
1972-4 (Politics)
The Watergate Scandal
46 of 54
1972 (Society & Culture; Economy)
Equal Rights Act passed, but never ratified; fuel crisis
47 of 54
1974-77 (President)
Gerald R Ford
48 of 54
1975 (Politics)
USA withdraws from Vietnam
49 of 54
1977-81 (President)
Jimmy Carter
50 of 54
1977 (Civil Rights)
Harvey Milk elected to office
51 of 54
1978 (Economy)
Airline Deregulation Act
52 of 54
1979 (Politics; Economy)
The Iranian Hostage Crisis; fuel crisis
53 of 54
1980-81 (Economy)
Economic recession
54 of 54

Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

The Great Migration

Back

1917-32 (Civil Rights)

Card 3

Front

USA enters WW1; Bolshevik Revolution; "Red Summer"

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Post-war depression

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

The First Red Scare

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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