Date American Politics and Work, Culture and Migration Geography America in

and National Power Exchange, and Society and and the the World
Identity Technology Settlement Environment
1940 “To Secure These GI Bill Bretton Woods WWII migrations War production Continued South- Truman Doctrine
Rights” system produce vibrant, and expansion of North migration
Loyalty-Security established; World diverse cities military reshape of African Israel created
Desegregation Program bank, the Sunbelt Americans
on armed forces International Bebop jazz Containment
Taft-Hartley Act Monetary Fund Wartime First Levittown strategy emerges
Shelley v Red Scare and southern opens
Kraemer Truman Baby boom anticommunism migration to Marshall Plan
reelected establishes new suppress dissent northern and FHA and VA
consumer western cities subsidize NATO created;
Truman’s Fair generation Advent of suburbanization West Germany
Deal television First Levittown created
changes opens
entertainment
1950 Brown v Board of Cold war Labor- Emergence of Bracero program Disneyland opens Permanent
Education liberalism Management rock ‘n’ roll and revived mobilization as a
Accord struck in youth culture National result of NSC-68
Montgomery Bus McCarthyism major industries Surging middle Interstate and
Boycott and Red Scare Disneyland opens class migration Defense Korean War
Military industrial to suburbs Highways Act
Little Rock Eisenhower’s complex begins to McDonald’s Geneva Accords
Central High presidency rise restaurants lead Patterns of racial Growth of regarding
School emergence of segregation in suburbia and Vietnam
desegregation National Defense fast food cities and Sunbelt
battle Education Act suburbs
spurs Beat Culture reinforced Atomic bombs
Southern development of flourishes in NY tested in Nevada
Christian technology and San Fran Migration to and Pacific Ocean
Leadership Sunbelt
Conference
founded McCarran-Walter
Act

Puerto Rican
“great migration”
to NY
1960 Greensboro sit- John F Kennedy’s Economic boom Civil Rights Immigration and Great Society Cuban missile
ins New Frontier movement nationality Act environmental crisis
Government merges protest initiatives
“The Feminine Kennedy spending on and gospel music Reflecting the Gulf of Tonkin
Mystique” assassinated Vietnam and new law, Urban riots Resolution
Great Society Major antiwar immigration
Civil Rights and Lyndon B. protests from Asia, Latin Kerner Johnson sends
Voting Rights Act Johnson elected Medicare and America and Commission ground troops to
Medicaid created Counterculture Africa increase Report Vietnam; war
National War on Poverty; escalates
Organization for Great Society Black Arts Rustbelt begins
Women founded movement to lose Tet Offensive;
Riots at Stonewall Inn population peace talks begin
Alcatraz Democratic riot
occupation National
Convention
Black Power

Student and
antiwar activism
1970 Equal Rights Richard Nixon’s Energy crisis Women’s and After 1975, First Earth Day Nixon invades
Amendment elected gay rights Vietnamese Cambodia
Inflation surges, movement refugees fleeing Environmental
Roe v Wade Watergate while economy flourish communist Protection Paris Accords
scandal; Nixon stagnates regime arrive in Agency ends Vietnam
Siege at resigns Cultural and US established War
Wounded Knee Deindustrialization political conflict
Jimmy Carter over the nuclear Rustbelt Endangered Camp David
Bakke v elected president Tax revolt in family population Species Act Accords between
University of California decline and Egypt and Israel
California Moral Majority Evangelical Sunbelt Three Mile Island
founded Christian population accident Iranian
Harvey Milk resurgence growth produce Revolution and
assassinated regional hostage crisis
realignment in
congressional
power