Faith & Ideals

• G.I. Bill of Rights
• United Nations created (1945)
• Yalta Conference; Cold War begins (1945)

• Baby Boom starts

• Truman Doctrine revealed
  
• Marshall Plan revealed
  
• Taft-Hartley Act
• William Levitt's Levittown project begins

• Berlin Blockade
• Truman orders armed forces to stop segregating units

• NATO formed
• National Housing Act

• McCarthy Era begins
• Korean War begins
  
• Rosenbergs arrested
• 22nd Amendment: Presidential term limits (1951)
• UNIVAC, universal automatic computer, is successfully tested (1951)
• Immigration and Naturalization Act (1952)
• Cease fire in Korea (1953)
• Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka decided (1954)
• Televised senate hearings on McCarthy's charges begin April 22 (1954)

• Warsaw Pact
• Rosa Parks and Montgomery, AL, bus boycott

• Highway Act
• Soviets launch Sputnik (1957)
  
• Troops sent to Little Rock Central High School (1957)
• Alaska and Hawaii become the 49th and 50th states (1959)

• Alliance for Progress
• Bay of Pigs
• Berlin Wall
• U.S. Military advisors sent to Vietnam
• Alan Shepard becomes first American in space

• Cesar Chavez organizes National Farm Workers Association
• Cuban Missile Crisis

1963

• President John F. Kennedy assassinated
• Civil Rights March on Washington DC
• Equal Pay Act gives woman equal pay for equal work

"Special Delivery Blues"

United/Divided

"Now that the Buffalo's Gone"

"Mississippi Goddamn"

• IBM 360 Mainframe is introduced
• Civil Rights Act
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Economic Opportunity Act

• Medicare and Medicaid start
• Marines land in Dominican Republic
• Voting Rights Act
• Watts riots

• Betty Friedan establishes the National Organization for Women

• Thurgood Marshall becomes first black Supreme Court Justice

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated
• The long, hot summer
• Tel Offensive
• Soviet Union Invades Czechoslovakia
• Democratic National Convention, Chicago

• Bombing of Cambodia begins
• Neil Armstrong lands on the moon

• Earth Day begins
• Four Students Shot by National Guard at Kent State
• Clean Air Act
• Congress Creates EPA

• 26th Amendment gives 18 year old the right to vote
• Gray Panthers are founded

• Congress proposes Equal Rights Amendment
• Watergate break in
• Nixon signs SALT agreement

• Cease Fire in Vietnam; most U.S. Troops pull out
• Watergate hearings
• War Powers Resolution
• Arab Oil Embargo causes Oil Shortage in U.S.
• Telnet begins (1974)
• OPEC lifts oil embargo (1974)
• First personal mini computers (1974)
• Nixon resigns (1974)
• Cambodia falls (1975)
• Vietnam War ends (1975)
• Helsinki Agreement (1975)