CHAPTER 25 REVIEW
•1940–1960 | Migration to Sun Belt swells region’s population |
•1944 | Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill) |
•1945–1960 | U.S. gross national product soars 250 percent; 60 percent of Americans achieve middle-class status; union membership reaches new high |
•1947 | Taft-Hartley Act |
President’s Committee on Civil Rights issues To Secure These Rights | |
Jackie Robinson becomes the first black baseball player to enter the major leagues | |
•1954–1958 | Eisenhower adopts Modern Republicanism and expands domestic programs |
•1954 | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Supreme Court ruling |
Operation Wetback | |
•1955–1956 | Montgomery bus boycott |
•1955 | Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine |
Emmett Till murdered | |
•1956 | Grace Metalious publishes Peyton Place |
National Interstate and Defense Highway Act | |
•1957 | Martin Luther King Jr. and other black ministers form Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) |
School desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas, enforced | |
Soviet Union launches Sputnik | |
•1960 | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed |
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