In Search of the American Dream: The USA, 1917-96

1913-21 (President)

Woodrow Wilson

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1917-32 (Civil Rights)

The Great Migration

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1917 (Politics)

USA enters WW1; Bolshevik Revolution; "Red Summer"

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1918-21 (Economy)

Post-war depression

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1919-20 (Politics)

The First Red Scare

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1920 (Society & Culture)

Women awarded the suffrage; Emergency Quota Act

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1921-23 (President)

Warren G Harding

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1923-29 (President)

Calvin Coolidge

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1927 (Society & Culture)

The Jazz Singer - first movie with sound; The Radio Act

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1929-33 (President)

Herbert Hoover

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1929 (Economy)

Wall Street Crash

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1930 (Society & Culture)

The Hays Code

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1932 (Politics)

The Bonus Army

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1933-45 (President)

Franklin D Roosevelt

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1938-9 (Economy)

"Roosevelt Recession"

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1939 (Politics)

Outbreak of WW2 in Europe

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1941 (Politics; Civil Rights)

Pearl Harbour causes the USA to enter WW2; A. Phillip Randolph threatens to march on Washington

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1945-53 (President)

Harry S Truman

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1945 (Politics)

USA drops atom bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki; WW2 ends

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1946 (Civil Rights)

Truman sets up President's Committee on Civil Rights

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1947-54 (Politics)

The Second Red Scare

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1947 (Economy)

First Levittown homes put up for sale - start of the suburbs

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1948 (Civil Rights)

Truman desegregates the military

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1950-53 (Politics)

The Korean war

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1952 (Society & Culture)

Immigration & Nationality Act extended to include refugees

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1953-61 (President)

Dwight D Eisenhower

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1953-58 (Society & Culture)

Operation *******

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1954 (Politics; Civil Rights)

Televised report exposed McCarthy; Brown v. Board

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1955 (Civil Rights)

Emmett Till murder; Montgomery Bus Boycott

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1957 (Civil Rights)

Little Rock Crisis

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1960 (Civil Rights)

Greensboro Sit-ins

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1961-63 (President)

John F Kennedy

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1961 (Civil Rights)

Freedom Rides

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1962 (Politics; Civil Rights)

First US troops into Vietnam; Illinois becomes 1st US state to repeal anti-homosexuality laws

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1963 (Politics; Civil Rights; Society & Culture)

JFK assassinated; Birmingham Protests; The Feminine Mystique published; Equal Pay Act

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1963-69 (President)

Lyndon B Johnson

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1964 (Civil Rights)

Mississippi Freedom Summer; Civil Rights Act

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1965 (Civil Rights; Society & Culture)

Lowndes County Freedom Organisation founded; Immigration quotas abolished; Watts riots; Voting Rights Act

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1966 (Civil Rights; Society & Culture)

The Northern Crusade; NOW founded

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1967 (Civil Rights)

The Brown Berets founded

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1968-9 (Civil Rights)

Ghetto riots

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1968 (Politics; Civil Rights)

The Cronkite Report; MLK assassinated

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1969-74 (President)

Richard M Nixon

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1969 (Politics; Civil Rights; Society & Culture)

The draft introduced for the Vietnam War; Stonewall Inn riot; PBS set up

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1970 (Society & Culture)

Major women's strike

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1972-4 (Politics)

The Watergate Scandal

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1972 (Society & Culture; Economy)

Equal Rights Act passed, but never ratified; fuel crisis

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1974-77 (President)

Gerald R Ford

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1975 (Politics)

USA withdraws from Vietnam

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1977-81 (President)

Jimmy Carter

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1977 (Civil Rights)

Harvey Milk elected to office

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1978 (Economy)

Airline Deregulation Act

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1979 (Politics; Economy)

The Iranian Hostage Crisis; fuel crisis

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1980-81 (Economy)

Economic recession

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