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Illinois Miranda v. Arizona Rosa Parks Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom rides Civil Rights Act 1964 Freedom summer Voting Rights Act 1965 Stokely Carmichael and Black Power Black Muslims/Nation of Islam Elijah Muhammad Malcolm X Feminism The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan) NOW- National Organization of Women War on Poverty Medicare Immigration Act of 1965 Chicago Democratic Convention (1968) Robert Kennedy assassinated Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Woodstock Cesar Chavez United Farm Workers (UFW) American Indian Movement Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (DDT) Roe v. Wade (1973) Nixon’s New Federalism Watergate Scandal U.S. v. Richard Nixon (1974) Bakke v. Regents of the University of California (1978)- affirmative action in a weak decision by the court Reaganomics Important Dates and Events: 1945 Yalta Conference Truman becomes president (Dem) Potsdam Conference 1946 Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech 1947 Cold War officially begins Containment Marshall Plan 1948 Berlin Airlift Taft-Hartley Act Israel a modern state Truman elected in upset (Dem) Military desegregation 1949 NATO established Russia has the bomb Communist control China 1950 Korean War begins Joseph McCarthy and Second Red Scare 1952 Dwight Eisenhower president (Rep) 1953 Stalin dies CIA returns Iran Shah to power Korean War ends in stalemate near 38th parallel 1954 Brown v. Board of Education French defeated at Dien Bien Phu Geneva Accords divides Vietnam at 17th parallel 1955 Warsaw Pact Montgomery Bus Boycott First McDonald’s opens Rebel Without a Cause 1956 Suez Crisis Interstate Highway Act enacted 1957 Baby boom peaks Sputnik Eisenhower Doctrine Little Rock Crisis/school integration with Little Rock Nine 1959 Castro comes to power in Cuba U.S. stops trade with Cuba 1960 U-2 incident John Kennedy president (Dem) Greensboro sit-ins/non-violent protests Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) formed Three-quarters of American homes have a TV set OPEC created 1961 Freedom Rides Bay of Pigs invasion Berlin Wall built/Berlin Crisis 23rd Amendment gives District of Columbia the right to vote Peace Corps developed 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis University of Mississippi integrated Silent Spring by Rachel Carson published 1963 March on Washington/ “I Have a Dream” speech Diem removed in Vietnam Kennedy assassinated in Dallas Lyndon Baynes Johnson president (Dem) The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan 1964 Beatles Civil Rights Act Gulf of Tonkin Resolution War on Poverty begins Johnson elected president 1965 Johnson’s Great Society First American combat soldiers go to Vietnam; U.S. takes over war from South Vietnam Malcolm X assassinated Freedom Summer Voting Rights Act passed Watts riots in Los Angeles 1966 Stokely Carmichael calls for Black Power Black Panther party forms in Oakland, California National Organization for Women (NOW) formed 1968 Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated Tet Offensive in Vietnam My Lai Massacre Protests at Democratic National Convention Nixon elected president (Rep) 1969 Vietnamization First man on the moon Woodstock Music Festival 1970 U.S. invades Cambodia Riots at Kent State (Ohio) EPA established SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) talks begin 1971 Nixon opens talks with China Pentagon papers published 1972 Nixon re-elected Watergate 1973 Cease-fire in Vietnam U.S. forces withdraw from Vietnam Roe v. Wade Yom Kippur War – Oil Embargo on U.S. 1974 Watergate tapes Nixon resigns Gerald Ford president; pardons Nixon Serious inflation and recession 1975 Saigon falls to North Vietnam; Vietnam communist 44% of married women employed 1976 Bicentennial Jimmy Carter president (Dem) 1977 Carter signs Panama Canal treaty 1978 Camp Davis Accords 1979 Americans taken hostage in Iran SALT 2 completed U.S.S.R. invades Afghanistan 1980 Reagan president (Rep) 1983 Star Wars military plan proposed by Reagan 1985 Gorbachev assumes power in Soviet Union 1988 George Bush elected (Rep) 1989 Berlin Wall comes down 1991 Persian Gulf War Breakup of Soviet Union 1992 Clinton President (Dem) 1993 NAFTA ratified by Senate 1996 Clinton re-elected 1999 Clinton acquitted in impeachment trial 2000 George W. 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