Cold War TImeline

By ccovey1
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    Franklin Delaware Roosevelt

  • G.I. Bill

    Government paying for soldiers mortgages and tuitions.
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    Harry S. Truman

  • Taft-Hartley Act

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    Baby Boom

  • Fair Deal

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    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

  • Rosa Parks Arrest

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • Students for a Democratic Society Created

  • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee Forms

  • Southern Sit-ins

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    John F. Kennedy

  • Freedom Riots

  • Bay of Pigs

  • Berlin Wall Created

  • John Glenn Orbits Earth

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

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    Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Kennedy Assassination

  • March on Washington

  • Diem Assassinated

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Johnson Begins VISTA Program

  • No. Vietnamese Fire on American Destroyers

  • Gulf of Tonkin Passed

  • Free Speech Movement

  • Johnson's Housing & Urban Development Act

  • Johnson Established Medicare

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Malcolm X Killed

  • Black Panthers Formed

  • Anti-War Rally Central Park NY

  • Tet Offensive

  • My Lai Massacre

  • MLK Assassinated

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    Richard Nixon

  • Nixon Create Enemy List

  • Pentagon Papers Leaked

  • SALT-I Treaty

  • Watergate Scandal

  • Roe v. Wade

  • American Soilders Leave Vietnam

  • Watergate Burglars Found Guilty

  • Saturday Night Maacre

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    Gerald Ford

  • No. Vietnamese Capture Saigon

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    Jimmy Carter

  • Camp David Accords

  • National Energy Act Passed

  • Shah Forced to Leave Iran

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis

  • Embassy Workers in Iran Take Hostage

  • Regan Began Strategic Defense Initiative

  • New Federalism

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    Ronald Reagan

  • Hostages Released

  • American Invades Granada

  • Tax Reform Act

  • US Bombs Libyan Airbases

  • Iran/Contra Affair

  • Black Monday Begins