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AMERICA IN THE WORLD |
POLITICS AND POWER |
IDENTITY |
ENVIRONMENT AND GEOGRPAHY |
WORK, EXCHANGE, AND TECHNOLOGY |
1940 |
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To Secure These Rights (1947)
Desegregation of armed services (1948)
Shelley v. Kraemer (1948)
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Continued South-North migration of African Americans
First Levittown opens (1947)
FHA and VA subsidize suburbanization
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Bretton Woods system established: World Bank, International Monetary Fund
Baby boom establishes new consumer generation
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1950 |
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Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Little Rock — Central High School desegregation battle
Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded (1957)
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Disneyland opens (1955)
National Highway Act (1956)
Growth of suburbia and Sunbelt
Atomic bomb testing in Nevada and Pacific Ocean
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1960 |
Cuban missile crisis (1962)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
Johnson sends ground troops to Vietnam; war escalates (1965)
Tet offensive (1968); peace talks begin
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John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier
John F. Kennedy assassinated (1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson’s landslide victory (1964)
War on Poverty; Great Society
Riots at Democratic National Convention (1968)
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Greensboro sit-ins
The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts (1964–1965)
National Organization for Women founded (1966)
Alcatraz occupation (1969)
Black Power
Student and antiwar activism
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1970 |
Nixon invades Cambodia (1971)
Paris Accords end Vietnam War (1973)
Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel (1978)
Iranian Revolution (1979) and hostage crisis (1979–1981)
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Richard Nixon’s landslide victory (1972)
Watergate scandal; Nixon resigns (1974)
Jimmy Carter elected president (1976)
Moral Majority founded (1979)
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Equal Rights Amendment (1972)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Bakke v. University of California (1978)
Harvey Milk assassinated (1978)
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First Earth Day (1970)
Environmental Protection Agency established (1970)
Endangered Species Act (1973)
Three Mile Island accident (1979)
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