Cold war

By jlasby
  • G.I. Bill

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    Truman Presidency

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    Baby Boomers

  • Churchill speech on "Iron Curtain"

  • Taft-Harley Act

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    Korean War

  • Stalin dies

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    Eisenhower presidency

  • Brown v. Board of Education

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    Vietnam War

  • Montgomery bus boycott

  • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was formed

  • Students Nonviolent Coordinating Committee forms (SNCC)

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    Kennedy presidency

  • Bay of Pigs

  • Congress sponsers the Freedom Rides

  • Berlin Wall

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • March on Washington

  • John Kennedy Assasination

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    Johnson presidency

  • Civil rights act of 1964

  • Gulf of Tonkin

  • VISTA prgram begins

  • Johnson establishes a Medicare system

  • March of Selma

  • Johnsons Housing and Urban Development Act

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

  • NOW (National Organization for Women) was founded

  • Tet Offensive

  • My Lai Massacre

  • Matin Luther King Jr. Assasination

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    Nixon

  • Woodstock Mustic Festival

  • Four students killed at Kent State University

  • Pentagon papers leaked

  • Nixon and Kissinger visits Communist China

  • Watergate

  • Nixon Visits Soviet union

  • Nixon announces that American troops would leave Vietnam in 60 days

  • Roe Vs. Wade

  • Saturday Night Massacre

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    Ford presidency

  • Nixon resigns

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    Carter presidency

  • Camp David Accords

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis

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    Reagen presidency

  • Reform Act of 1986

  • Iran-Contra Affair