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  • Yalta conference

  • Marshall plan proposed

  • HUAC communism in Hollywood hearings

  • Truman orders desegregation of the US military

  • Period: to

    Korean War

  • Army-McCarthy hearings

  • Brown v.Board overturns Jim Crow "seperate but equal"

  • Arrest of Rosa Parks

  • Fidel Castro leads Cuban uprising

  • Cuban Missile crisis

  • Assassination of President Kennedy

  • Gulf of Tonkin grants president control of Vietnam conflict

  • Launch of Great Society program and War on Poverty

  • Malcolm X. Assassinated

  • American Indian Movement (AIM) established

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Stonewall Riots

  • Roe v. Wade won

  • Fall of Saigon to North Vietnam

  • Period: to

    AIDS crisis

  • Ratification of Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) defeated

  • Senate hearings on Iran-Contra affair

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

  • Operation Desert Storm begins; US pushes Iraq out of Kuwait

  • World Wide Web Created

  • Collapse of USSR

  • Attack on World Trade Center

  • Period: to

    War in Iraq

  • Obama wins presidential election

  • Gay marriage legalized