APUSH Cold War Domestic Timeline

By ktmrob

  • Baby boom begins

  • Harry S. Truman's Presidency

  • Truman enacts the creation of the Loyalty Review Board

  • Blacklists are created

  • McCarthy announces that he has a list of known communists in the State Department

  • The McCarran Internal Security Act was passed

  • Rosenberg Trials Begin

  • The McCarran-Walter Act

  • Richard Nixon delivers the Checkers Speech to save himself from humiliation

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidency Begins

  • Truman’s presidency ends

  • Playboy's first issue

  • Army-McCarthy hearings

  • Brown vs. Board of Education decision that "separate but equal" is unconstitutional:

  • Vietnam War begins

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • Elvis releases "Heartbreak Hotel"

  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded for nonviolence

  • Little Rock Nine goes to Central High

  • NASA founded

  • Students for a Democratic Society founded

  • Greensboro sit-ins

  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed for nonviolent immediate change

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower's Presidency Ends

  • John F. Kennedy's Presidency Begins

  • Peace Corps founded

  • Yuri Gagarin goes to space

  • Freedom Rides begin

  • United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez founded

  • John Glenn orbits the earth

  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

  • Baby boom ends

  • Feminine Mystique Published

  • Martin Luther King gives "I Have A Dream" speech

  • March On Washington

  • John F. Kennedy Assassinated

  • Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidency Begins

  • VISTA created

  • The Free Speech Movement Begins

  • Johnson Pushes through Kennedy's tax cut

  • Johnson's Great Society Speech

  • Civil Right's Act of 1964

  • Head Start Created

  • MLK's march on Selma

  • Equal Employment Opportunity Commission created

  • Medicare signed by Johnson

  • Medicaid signed by Johnson

  • The Voting Rights of 1965

  • Watts Riots in LA for civil rights

  • The Department of Housing and Urban Development formed

  • National Organization for Women (NOW) founded

  • Black Panther Party founded

  • Martin Luther King assassinated

  • Robert Kennedy Assassinated

  • American Indian Movement founded

  • Lyndon B. Johnson's Presidency Ends

  • Richard M. Nixon's Presidency begins

  • Woodstock Music Festival

  • Kent State University massacre

  • Hard Hat Riot

  • Jackson State University killings

  • Roe Vs. Wade legalized abortion

  • Wounded Knee legal Battle begins

  • Richard M. Nixon's Presidency ends

  • Vietnam War ends