test

• 1917


  us intervene in world war one
• 1920 


  19th amendment, white women get the right to vote
• 1920-1933


  prohibition era
• 1924


  congress give indigenous people the right to citizenship
• 1929


  13 million unemployed after the wall street crash
• 1929


  hoover rejects federal relief
• 1933


  FDR new deal recovery programme employs people and includes financial reforms
• 1941


  japan attack pearl harbour so usa join ww2
• 1941


  threat by randolf that 100,000 will march on washington as they want jobs and freedoms
• 1945


  two atomic bombs dropped in Japan, ww2 ends
• 1946


  truman presidents committee on civil rights is set up
• 1947

  truman doctrine to contain communism as it’s a threat to the west
• 1948


  marshall plan which gives aid to countries resisting communism
• 1950-54


  mcarthyism where he goes on a witch hunt for communists and claims there are 100s working in the government
• mccarthy 


  he is censured in 1954 after he went on tv to interview his suspected communists but shocked people with his abuse
• 1950-53


  us forces help south korea against north korea and china
• 1954


  brown v board, ends segregation in schools as it was deemed unconstitutional
• 1955


  rosa parks denies a man her seat which leads to her arrest in december
• 1955


  montgomery bus boycotts for over a year
• 75% of bus riders black


  90% took part
• in 1932, 97% of women working in the meat industry were the only income in their family or boosting their husbands
• 1943


  3 million women in agriculture
• 1936-78


  82% believed married women shouldn’t work

  38% married women shouldn’t work
• 1963 


  equal pay act
• 1973


  roe v wade, abortion is a woman’s legal right
• 15 states refused to ratify the ERA even after it had passed through congress
• 1963


  betty friedan the feminine mystique
• 1910-40


  increase of 5 million women working
• $1 for white man

  23 cents for black woman

  61 cents for a white woman
• 1955


  emmett till murdered, lynched and open casket
• 1957


  little rock 9, white mob and governor faubus
• 1957


  eisenhower makes suppressing someone’s vote a federal crime
• 1960


  greensboro sit ins
• 1960


  FDA approved a birth control pill giving women more autonomy
• 1961


  bay of pigs leads to close call with nuclear war
• 1960


  ruby bridges escorted by armed guards into school, 6 years old
• 1963


  250,000 march on washington and MLK does his I have a dream speech
• 1961


  freedom rides of the south to show that buses were still segregating and racism in the south hadn’t improved
• 1964


  more military in Vietnam
• 1964


  LBJ signs civil rights act so no one can be discriminated against based on sex, race or sexuality