WORLD PROJECT

By tanaiya

  • bombed

    Dresden bombed

  • USA.!!!!

    • U.S. grants independence to Philippines (leases bases to U.S.)

  • that marshall tho

    • Marshall plan to aid Germany and Europe (originally offered to all of Europe, including USSR occupied.

  • dewey

    Truman defeats Dewey and is re-elected.

  • NATO

    NATO established

  • communist much.?

    • Communists in U.S. must register

  • korea

    • Truman relieves MacArthur of command in Korea – DM returns in triumph, talk of impeachment… “Old soldiers never die… they just fade away”… and he did.

  • Queen

    King George VI dies; Elizabeth becomes Queen

  • military

    U.S. provides military aid to France to suppress Vietnam freedom fighters

  • education

    Brown v. Board of Education

  • Dr.King

    • Montgomery Bus Boycott; Martin Luther King becomes prominent.

  • re-elected

    Eisenhower and Nixon re-elected.

  • civil rights

    • Congress passes Civil Rights act prohibiting discrimination in public. Nevertheless continued resistance to integration in South.

  • things just got real

    Vietnam war continues to escalate

  • flat line

    MLK assassinated

  • LAI

    • My Lai massacre – Lt. Calley convicted in 1971

  • attack

    artial Law in Canada because of Quebec separatists attacks

  • amendment

    Constitutional Amendment (26) lowering voting age to 18

  • vietnam

    VIETNAM WAR ENDS- NIXON RESIGNS

  • born

    SOME OF CLASS NOW BORN

  • president

    CLINTON ELECTED President,

  • bush

    DISPUTED ELECTION OF 2000 - George Bush BECOMES PRESIDENT