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Unit 7 Timeline - Chapters 27-31

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    Unit 7 Timeline - Chapters 27-31

  • Congress passes the Beer-Wine Revenue Act

  • Congress creates the Tennessee Valley Authority

  • Congress establishes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  • Congress creates the Civil Works Administration

  • Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • Congress passes the Emergency Banking Relief Act

  • Congress establishes the Civilian Conservation Corps

  • President Roosevelt creates the Works Progress Administration 1

  • Congress passes the Wagner Act

  • Panay incident

  • Social Security goes into effect

  • Hitler forces the Anschluss (union) of Austria and Germany

  • John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath is published

  • Soviet Union agrees to a nonaggression pact with Germany

  • German troops invade Poland

  • Richard Wright’s Native Son is published

  • Battle of Britain

  • Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact

  • Japanese launch surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

  • Battle of Midway

  • Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Combined Chiefs of Staff meet at Casablanca

  • Allied forces land on Sicily

  • Roosevelt and Churchill meet Stalin, in Tehran

  • Congress passes the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights)

  • Congress passes the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (GI Bill of Rights)

  • D-day

  • Yalta Conference

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies; Hitler commits suicide

  • Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Fifty nations at war with the Axis Powers sign the United Nations Charter

  • V-E day

  • Japanese surrender

  • Congress passes the Taft-Hartley Labor Act

  • National Security Council (NSC) is established

  • Truman issues an executive order ending segregation in the U.S. armed forces

  • Israel is proclaimed an independent nation

  • Allied forces begin airlifting supplies to West Berlin

  • Truman defeats Dewey in the presidential election

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is created

  • China “falls” to communism

  • United States and other UN members go to war in Korea

  • Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man is published

  • Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are executed

  • Armistice is reached in Korea

  • Army-McCarthy hearings are televised

  • Supreme Court issues ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

  • Geneva Accords adopted

  • Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott begins

  • In Suez War, Israel, Britain, and France attack Egypt

  • Hungarian revolt against the Warsaw Pact is quickly suppressed

  • Federal troops ordered to protect students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

  • Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1

  • Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is published

  • Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is published

  • U-2 incident reveals that the United States is flying spy planes over the Soviet Union

  • Students in Greensboro, North Carolina, stage a sit-in to demand service at a “whites-only” lunch counter

  • Bay of Pigs fiasco

  • Soviets erect the Berlin Wall

  • October 1962 Cuban missile crisis

  • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas

  • Congress passes the Civil Rights Act

  • Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf resolution

  • Riots break out in the African American community of Watts, California

  • Malcolm X is assassinated by a rival group of black Muslims

  • Viet Cong stages the Tet offensive

  • Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated

  • Robert Kennedy is assassinated