proposed
1924: Immigration Act
1924: Indian Citizenship Act
Chapter 6 The New Deal Liberal Order: Collapse, Culmination, or “Great Exception”?
1929–1939: The Great Depression
1932: Great Plains dust storms
1933–1934: First New Deal
1933–1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt presidency
1935: National Labor Relations Act
1935: Social Security Act
1935–1936: Second New Deal
1938: Fair Labor Standards Act
1939–1962: Civil rights movement sit-ins
1941 (December 7): Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; US enters World War II
1941–1945: World War II
1944: Normandy Invasion
1945: US drops atomic bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945: Yalta Conference
1947–1991: Cold War
1947: Jackie Robinson breaks baseball color barrier
1948: Alger Hiss–Whittaker Chambers hearings
1948–1952: Chinese Communist Revolution
1949–1951 (circa): US television networks established
1950: Mattachine Society founded
1950–1953: Korean War
1950–1954: “McCarthy era” anticommunist crusade
1953: Soviets test hydrogen bomb
Chapter 7 Radical Stirrings, Civil Rights, the Contentious 1960s, and the Rise of Modern Conservatism
1954: Brown v. Board of Education
1955: Lynching of Emmitt Till
1955: Daughters of Bilitis founded
1955: National Review founded by William F. Buckley Jr.
1955–1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955–1975: Vietnam War
1957: Russian Sputnik 1 satellite launched
1959: Nixon–Khrushchev “Kitchen Debate”
1960: Students for a Democratic Society founded
1960: Civil rights movement sit-ins begin at Greensboro, North Carolina
1960: Young Americans for Freedom founded
1960: Christian Broadcasting Network founded
1961: Bay of Pigs invasion (failed)
1961: Freedom Rides
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
1963: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
1963: Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church bombing
1963 (November 22): John F. Kennedy assassinated, Dallas
1963–1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson presidency
1964 (June): Murder of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, Neshoba County, Mississippi
1964 (June–August): Mississippi Freedom Summer
1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964
1964: Barry Goldwater nomination
1964: UC Berkeley Free Speech movement
1964–1965: Great Society social welfare programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, launched
1965: Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights marches
1965: Voting Rights Act of 1965
1965: Delano Grape Boycott (Cesar Chavez)
1965: Malcolm X assassinated, New York City
1966: National Organization for Women founded
1966: Black Panther Party founded.
1967: Summer of Love, Haight-Asbury, San Francisco
1968 (April 4): Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated, Memphis
1968 (April–May): Urban riots
1968 (June 6): Robert F. Kennedy assassinated, Los Angeles
1968: Democratic National Convention riots, Chicago
1969: Stonewall uprising
1969 (July 20): Apollo 11 moon landing
1969 (August): Woodstock Music Festival
1969–1974: Richard M. Nixon presidency
1970: First Earth Day
1972: Eagle Forum established by Phyllis Schlafly
Chapter 8 The Identity and Post-Materialist Left, the New Right, and Third Way Liberalism
1972–1974: Watergate scandal; Nixon resigns
1973: Roe v. Wade
1973–1974: OPEC Oil Crisis
1979: Moral Majority founded
1981–1989: Ronald Reagan presidency
