© Leon Felkins, 1998, 1999.
No part of this document may be copied without permission.
[Last revision, July 12, 1999]
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Abortion |
Roe v. Wade decision By Supreme Court |
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Activism |
Hippies protest in Chicago |
Amtrak's Sunset Limited is derailed |
Ku Klux Klan founded in Pulaski, Tennessee |
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Affirmative Action |
Affirmed by Supreme Court |
California Civil Rights Initiative, Prop. 209, passed |
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission established |
Affirmed by Supreme Court |
Race based contract awards are unconstitutional |
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Executive order 11478 issued by Nixon |
Cancelled in California |
Supreme Court declines to review Cal. 209 |
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Set-asides |
Quotas |
Sowell |
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African-Americans |
First Cabinet Appointment |
NAACP Founded |
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Agricultural Adjustment Act |
Supreme Court (New Deal) |
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Agriculture |
Farm Security Administration established |
Agriculture Act of 1949 -- sets milk price |
Lever Act sets prices on farm products |
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Morrill Act |
Farm Bill signed by Reagan |
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Smith-Lever Act - county agents |
Agriculture Trade and Development Act gives excess food to foreigners |
Federal Farm Loan Act |
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Alaska |
Purchased by US |
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American Independence |
first Continental Congress |
Continental Army disbanded |
Boston Tea Party |
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Americans With Disabilities Act |
Infertility is a disability |
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Animals |
Animal Damage Control Act passed |
Laboratory Animal Welfare Act |
Animal Enterprise Protection Act |
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Humane Methods of Slaughter Act |
Endangered Species Preservation Act |
"Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act of 1994" |
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Endangered Species Conservation Act |
Horse Protection Act |
Animals must be given exercise |
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Arafat |
Men of the Year |
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Army Nurse Corps |
Established |
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Army-McCarthy Hearings |
Begin |
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Assassinations |
John F. Kennedy |
Lincoln Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth |
Robert F. Kennedy |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. |
President William McKinley |
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Asset Forfeiture |
See "Forfeiture" |
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Atomic Energy Commission |
Established |
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Banking |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC ) created |
Financial Institutions Rescue, Recovery and Enforcement Act |
Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act |
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Banking Deregulation Act |
Removed interest ceilings -- Carter |
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Bell System |
broken up |
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Blacks |
See "African-Americans" |
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Boone, Daniel |
Born |
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Brown, Ron |
Commerce Secretary dies |
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Budget, U.S. |
Reagan Revises |
Clinton's Military |
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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) |
Created |
Oleomargarine Act |
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing |
Established |
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Bureau of Immigration |
Established |
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Bureau of the Public Debt |
Created from "Public Debt Service" |
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Business |
Clayton Antitrust Act |
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Camels |
Purchased for Western US |
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Campaign Financing |
Huang contributes $2.5 million |
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Canada |
Gets a Constitution |
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Castro, Fidel |
Becomes Cuban Dictator |
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Censorship |
movies & photos of prize fights |
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Census |
First |
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Central Intelligence Agency |
Created |
National Security Act |
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Child Abuse |
Child abuse act Becomes law |
Child Abuse Accountability Act |
"Child Protection Act" |
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CHILDREN'S JUSTICE ACT |
"Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act" |
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Law banning passed |
Another law passed |
Yet another law |
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Child-Labor |
"Keating-Owen Act" passed |
Factory Act passed by the British Parliament |
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China |
"Most-Favored-Nation" status |
Taiwan expelled from UN |
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Communists take over |
Nixon visits |
Tiananmen Square |
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Churchill, Sir Winston |
Born |
Iron Curtain Speech |
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CIA |
Created |
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Cigarette ads |
Ban on TV |
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Civil Disobedience and Protests |
U.S. Marshalls battle Kahl |
Thoreau jailed |
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Civil Liberties |
Americans with Disabilities Act signed |
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Civil Rights |
Civil Rights Bill passed |
"PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION ACT" |
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Johnson signs 1968 Act |
Lincoln suspends some civil rights |
Civil Rights Act - 1960 |
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Civil Rights Commission |
begins operations |
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Civil Service |
Pendleton Act: competitive examinations established |
Anti-gag law |
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Civil War |
Lee Surrenders |
Starts at Fort Sumter |
Maryland Occupied |
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Lincoln suspends civil rights |
Tennessee seceded |
Vicksburg surrenders |
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Riots |
South Carolina seceeds |
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Clear Air standards |
EPA |
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Clinton Administration |
Filegate |
More Filegate |
Hearings on Filegate |
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Haitian Policy |
Lewinsky matter reported in press |
Rents the Whitehouse |
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Huang in the Whitehouse |
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Vincent Foster found dead |
Travel Office Scandal |
John Huang affair |
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Clinton, President William |
Born |
Lewinsky affair begins |
apology to Native Hawaiians |
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Elected President |
Starr Report is released on Clinton/Lewinsky |
Creates AmeriCorps |
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Code Napoleon |
Goes into force |
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Cold War |
Berlin Wall goes up |
Iron Curtain lifted, Berlin Wall comes down |
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Colonial Times |
Thanksgiving |
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Columbus |
Sets sail |
Columbus’s ships, Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria, landed in the Bahamas |
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Commodity Credit Corporation |
Established |
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Communism |
McCarran Internal Security Act |
Communist Party disbanded by Yeltsin |
Poland and Hungary revolt |
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Soviet Union gives it up |
Berlin blockade begins |
COMMUNIST CONTROL ACT passed |
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Confederate States of America |
Created |
Jefferson Davis president |
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Congress |
Secretly votes itself a pay raise of 33% |
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Constitution |
16th amendment, Income Tax, ratified |
22nd Amendment, term limit on presidency |
15th Amendment, right to vote |
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17th Amendment, senator election, ratified |
29th Amendment, voting age now 18 |
19th Amendment, women get the vote |
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25th Amendment Ratified - Presidential succession |
Chief Justice John Marshall rules on constitutionality of acts |
Poll Tax amendment, #24, passed |
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Violated: "Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Act of 1992" |
Bill of Rights becomes U.S. law |
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Contract With America |
Tax Cut bill passed |
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Copyright |
Law passed |
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Crime & Criminal Justice |
Miranda versus Arizona decided |
CRIME CONTROL ACT OF 1973 |
Anti-Crime bill signed by Clinton |
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Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black thugs |
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Omnibus Violent Crime Control and Prevention Act |
O.J. Simpson found not guilty |
sentencing rules |
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Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act |
"The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act" |
"EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACT" |
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Richard Jewell gets life back |
U.S. prisons now have highest incarceration of any country |
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CSPI, Food Police |
Eating out is dangerous |
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Attacks Breakfast |
Attacks Family Restaurants |
Hamburgers are bad |
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Eggs can be bad |
caffeine is bad |
soft drinks are bad |
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No chicken, beef, or popcorn -- CSPI |
No Chinese, Mexican, or Italian food |
fat substitute, Olestra, unsafe |
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Cuba |
Clinton halts refugees |
Cuban missile crisis |
Cuban Democracy Act |
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Platt Amendment rider |
"Bay of Pigs" invasion |
Guantanamo Bay, invaded |
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USA ends diplomatic relations with |
Castro becomes Dictator |
Charter flights banned by Clinton |
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Operation Mongoose |
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Davis, Jefferson |
Born |
Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship |
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DDT |
Outlawed |
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de Klerk |
Men of the Year |
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Death Squads |
Trained by U.S. |
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Debt, National |
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act |
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Clinton signs "Balanced budget" bill and new Tax law |
$1 TRILLION mark passed |
Balance the budget |
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Passes 2 trillion mark! |
Passes 3 Trillion mark |
Passes 5 trillion mark! |
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Denver International Airport |
Opens |
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Department of Agriculture |
Created |
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Department of Commerce |
Created |
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Department of Defense |
Formed |
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Department of Education |
Created |
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Department of Energy |
Created |
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Department of Health and Human Services |
Created |
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare |
Created |
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Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Established |
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Department of Interior |
Created |
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Department of Justice |
Created |
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Department of Labor |
Created |
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Department of Labor and Commerce |
Created |
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Department of State |
Created |
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Department of the Treasury |
Created |
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Department of Transportation |
Created |
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Department of Veterans Affairs |
Created |
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District of Columbia |
Established |
Walter Washington elected 1st mayor |
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Documents of Liberty |
Articles of Confederation adopted |
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Declaration of the Rights of Man |
US Constitution adopted |
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense |
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Declaration of the Rights of Man published |
Federalist Papers begin publication |
Mayflower Compact signed |
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Magna Carta |
Declaration of Independence |
Freedom of Information Act signed |
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Dog-licensing law |
First |
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Dred Scott |
Decision by Supreme Court - Slavery |
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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) |
Established |
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Drug War |
See "War on Drugs" |
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Eastern Europe |
Czechoslovakia gets democracy, Havel elected |
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Economics |
Keynes |
Friedrich von Hayek wins Nobel Prize |
Stock Market Crashed |
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oil embargo |
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Education |
"Higher Education Act of 1965", Johnson |
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Massive spending |
Head Start, Johnson |
Land Grants to colleges |
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state of Massachusetts allowed some flexibility |
Student Loans |
"Improving America's Schools Act of 1994" |
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Elections/Campaigns |
Corrupt Practices Act passed |
Incumbents' advantage |
"motor voter" bill approved |
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Election Reform Act |
Idaho grants women right to vote |
Whiskey Ring for Grant's reelection |
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First direct primary election |
Gerrymandering |
Equal time on the radio |
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voting age reduced to 18 |
Hatch Act |
Voting Rights Act signed by Johnson |
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Elkins Act |
Passed (regulates railroads) |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Signed |
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Emergency Banking Relief Act |
Passed during Great Depression |
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Endangered Species |
Act signed |
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Energy |
National Energy Act of 1978 |
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English Parliament |
First |
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Entitlements |
Medicare passed |
Food stamp program |
Medicare starts |
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Workmen's Compensation Act is passed |
Water Pollution Control Act |
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act |
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Environment & Environmentalism |
Soil and Water Resources Conservation Act |
Air Quality Act of 1967 |
National Air Quality Control Act, (Clean Air Act) |
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"Clean Air", goes into effect |
Clinton to educate public about Global Warming |
Johnson signs Wilderness Act |
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Act of 1969 |
"Global Warming" is born |
Clean Air Act passed |
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CFCs (chloroflourocarbons) banned |
Superfund |
Water Quality Act passed |
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Dioxin scare |
"Wetlands Act" becomes law |
Toxic Substances Control Act |
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Exxon "Valdez" runs aground |
Sierra Club |
Air Quality Standards to exceed $46 Billion |
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ozone layer hole |
California Desert Protection Act |
"Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990" |
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fluorocarbons banned |
"Hazardous Waste Containment Act of 1980" -- Creates "Superfund" |
ETHANOL tax break extended by Congress |
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Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1976 |
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
U.S. Steel |
Smoking |
Created |
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Equal Employment Opportunity Act |
Becomes law |
REHABILITATION ACT |
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Executive Orders |
11246 equal opportunity obligations |
11063 prohibited racial discrimination in housing |
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12148 FEMA |
11478 issued by Nixon establishes Affirmative Action |
Clinton signs order to prevent sales of tobacco to children |
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9066 -- Japanese Concentration Camps |
9835 -- establishing the Federal Employee Loyalty Program |
10925 -- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission established |
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Expansion of US Borders |
US annexes California |
Midway Islands annexed |
Louisiana Purchase |
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Texas annexed |
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Exxon Valdez |
Runs aground |
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Family |
12-year-old boy gets a "divorce" from parents |
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Family and Medical Leave Act |
Passed |
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Farm Subsidies |
Agricultural Adjustment Act |
Farm Bill of 1995 |
Agriculture Act of 1949 -- sets milk price |
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FBI |
Created |
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Federal Election Campaign Act |
Becomes law |
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) |
Created |
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Federal Trade Commission |
Established |
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Fidel Castro |
Cuba |
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Fishing Rights |
Extended to 200 miles |
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Flood Control Act |
Passed |
Another one |
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) |
Created |
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Foreign Policy/relations |
16 U.S. battleships, set out on an around-the-world voyage |
Russian Famine Relief Act |
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China's most-favored-nation status approved |
Tariff Act of 1930 |
UN Charter signed |
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Guatemala's pres overthrown with help of CIA |
Economic sanctions to South Africa |
oil embargo |
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Neutrality Act of 1939 allows export of arms |
Iran-Contra Scandal |
TRADE MISSIONS FOR SALE? |
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Nuclear nonproliferation treaty is signed |
Monroe Doctrine |
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act |
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Forfeiture |
"COMPREHENSIVE DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ACT" |
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 |
"The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act" amended |
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"Comprehensive Forfeiture Act of 1984" |
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act |
"Anti-Drug Abuse Act" |
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Exposed by Pittsburg Press |
$468,000 of ex-gov of Louisiana money seized |
Prosecutor Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr. gets nailed |
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Mrs. Bennis' auto is seized |
Jew's assets finance 2nd trip by Columbus |
Civil forfeiture ok says the Supreme Court |
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To confiscate his $5,000,000 ranch, Donald Scott is shot dead |
Navigation Act passed |
"The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act" |
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Freedom |
Boston Tea Party |
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Freedom of Information Act |
Speed Limit Reduction from 70 to 55 mph |
Irish get divorce law |
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"ANARCHIST EXCLUSION ACT" |
Water Pollution Control Act |
Gun Control Act of 1968 |
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Bank Secrecy Act |
"Wetlands Act" becomes law |
Clayton Antitrust Act |
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Carpenters Union Ordered to Hire More Women |
No prayers in U.S. Public schools |
McCarran Internal Security Act |
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Rediculous School rules |
CSPI, Food Police |
Federal Employee Loyalty Program |
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Supreme Court Refuses to hear "Illinois antifornication statute" |
Rent control starts in New York |
California Civil Rights Initiative, Prop. 209, passed |
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Teaching bans -- Scopes Trial |
Anti terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act passed |
Sedition Act |
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French Revolution |
Bastille day |
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G.I. Bill of Rights |
Passed |
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Gasoline, leaded |
Banned |
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Germany |
Adolf Hitler becomes Fuhrer |
Germany reunites |
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Global Warming |
"Global Warming" is born |
Arrested for smuggling Freon |
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Gold |
Illegal to own |
gold standard abandoned |
Citizens are allowed to own |
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Gorbachev |
Demands reforms in USSR |
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Government |
Government Management Reform Act |
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Government Abuse |
"EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACT" |
Richard Jewell gets life back |
"Six Acts" is passed by the English Parliament |
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Army "volunteers" were exposed to radiation |
Tobacco Settlement |
Lincoln Assassination trial ends -- improperly conducted |
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Arrested for smuggling Freon |
Trading with the Enemy Act |
IRS can get abusive |
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Federal agencies packing guns |
FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr |
Truman orders U.S. Army to seize nation's railroads |
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Richard Jewell nailed improperly |
Battle of Athens (GA) |
Anti-Terrorism Law used to abuse citizens |
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Steel Mills seized by Truman |
Liquor seized by Army |
Japanese excluded from owning land |
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Government Atrocities |
"Ruby Ridge" Hearings convene |
Soviets shoot down Flight 007 |
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Branch Davidian compound in Waco |
More in Washington Post Report |
Koresh's Branch Davidian Compound burnt |
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Siege of "Ruby Ridge" |
Randy Weaver's wife killed |
Massacre of St. Bartholomew |
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Government Corruption |
"30 million Americans (1 in 7) are suffering from hunger" per Gore |
Prosecutor Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr. gets nailed |
Military Medical Benefits Amendments passed |
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"ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT ACT" |
New York City very nearly goes broke |
South Korean President Roh Tae Woo is arrested |
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Dan Rostenkowski guilty |
Watergate |
Housing and Urban Development fraud |
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drugs donated to Bosnia are defective |
Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 |
Bush pardons Iran-Contra crooks |
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Financial Institutions Rescue, Recovery and Enforcement Act |
ABSCAM |
TOP TEN SPENDERS AMONG LOBBYISTS |
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House of Representatives Bank closed |
TRADE MISSIONS FOR SALE? |
Whiskey Ring for Grant's reelection |
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Koreagate |
$468,000 of ex-gov Edwards of Louisiana money seized |
Superfund Worker Training Program is corrupt |
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Nixon impeachment |
Office of Government Ethics Authorization Act |
Truman finds massive corruption |
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Robert Anderson ex Treasury head goes to jail |
FBI director, Williams Sessions sacked by Clinton |
Congressman Dan Rostenkowski indicted |
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Government Projects |
Federal Highway act |
More Mississippi levees |
Mississippi river levees extended |
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Idea for Mississippi levees conceived |
National Reclamation Act |
Mississippi River gets levees |
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Flood Control Act of 1944 |
Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway |
First Natchez Trace Parkway construction contract |
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Government Spending |
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act |
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Balance the budget |
$4.4 billion atom-smashing Super Collider announced |
AIDS Housing Opportunity Act |
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Government subsidizes religion? |
$6 billion highway bill repeals 55 mph speed limit |
Omnibus Reconciliation Bill vetoed by Clinton |
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Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health |
housing and urban renewal -- $1 billion -- signed by Johnson |
PEACE CORPS ACT |
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Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act |
Air Quality Standards to exceed $46 Billion |
Medicare bill signed by Johnson |
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Food stamp program |
Balanced budget amendment defeated |
Agriculture Trade and Development Act gives excess to foreigners |
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Government Waste and "Pork" |
First Natchez Trace Parkway construction contract |
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$500,000 homes for National Park employees |
Superfund |
Clinton creates AmeriCorps |
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Arming the Third World |
Procurement Example |
Lockheed and Martin merge -- we pay |
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Congress forces money on Pentagon |
Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) |
Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act |
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Congressional Staff growth |
Dioxin scare |
Triton Project |
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Hazel O'leary |
Loss of $23,000,000,000 from Medicare |
Federal Housing Act creates slums |
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Senate Barber Shop and the Beauty Salon |
US government closes down due |
"Hazardous Waste Containment Act of 1980" -- Creates "Superfund" |
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Flood Control Act of 1944 |
New York City narrowly avoids bankruptcy |
Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway |
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Great Depression |
Congress provides wheat to needy |
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) created -- Reforestation Relief Act |
Works Progress Administration (WPA) established |
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National Industrial Recovery Act |
Banking (Glass-Steagall) Act |
Roosevelt's "New Deal" |
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National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
Roosevelt (FDR) announces New Deal |
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Rural Electrification Administration established by Roosevelt |
Federal Emergency Relief Act passed |
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) initiated |
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Tariff Act of 1930 |
Flood Control |
Farm Security Administration established |
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Great Society |
Aid to Appalachia |
War on Poverty bill signed |
Johnson signs $1 billion anti-poverty program |
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Gulf War |
starts by Bush |
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Gun Control |
Ban on Semiautomatic Rifles |
Nazis had such laws first |
National Firearms Act -- the beginning |
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Gun Control Act of 1968 |
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act |
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Handicapped |
REHABILITATION ACT |
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Hatch Act |
Passed - Agricultural subsidies |
Revised |
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Hawaii |
Invaded by U.S. |
Absorbed by US through the "Organic Act" |
Annexed |
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Highway speeds |
legislation |
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Hijacking |
First plane |
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Hitler, Adolf |
Born, Dictator of Germany, WWII |
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Holidays |
Louisiana and Arkansas are first states to observe Christmas |
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Homestead Act |
Passed |
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Homosexuals |
Military ban is unconstitutional by Clinton |
"Don't Ask Don't Tell" in the military |
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OK, in military -- Clinton |
Defense of Marriage Act |
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House of Representatives |
Audit |
Rejects Term Limits |
ABSCAM |
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Live TV begins |
Jim Wright (D. Tex.) resigns under pressure |
Staff growth |
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Their Bank closed |
Jeannette Rankin first woman |
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House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) |
communism in Hollywood films |
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Founded |
Arthur Miller convicted for contempt |
Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers Case |
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Immigration |
Chinese Exclusion Act Passed |
Japanese excluded |
"Simpson-Mazzoli" Immigration Act |
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California anti-immigrant ballot initiative Proposition 187 |
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 repealed |
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Impeachment |
Johnson |
Nixon - Threatened with |
Clinton |
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Income tax |
16th Amendment ratified |
Takes effect |
A Tax cut |
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Income Tax was signed into law |
IRS seize Willie Nelson's holdings |
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Lincoln's war tax |
Clinton signs largest tax increase, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act |
Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act (income tax but killed by Supreme Court) |
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Revenue Act of 1950 |
Reagan signs a new Tax Bill |
Omnibus Taxpayer Bill of Rights |
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Withholding approved |
Withholding began |
IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 |
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Influenza epidemic |
False Alarm |
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Inquisition |
Dissidents burnt at the stake |
Jews ordered out of Grenada |
Ends |
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Interstate Commerce Act |
Passed and Invoked on Railroads |
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Interstate Highway System |
Created by Federal-Aid Highway Act |
Federal Highway Act passed |
Federal-Aid Highway Act signed |
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Invasions, etc. by U.S. |
Operation Mongoose |
U.S. Marines oust Nicaragua's president |
Troops sent to Panama to get Noriega by Bush |
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Haiti |
Nicaragua - 1912 (also Honduras and Cuba) |
Manuel Noriega's trial begins |
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Haiti to restore Aristide |
Reagan orders Marines into Lebanon |
Cuban missile crisis |
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Lebanon |
Beirut bombing kills 269 Marines |
Panama |
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Nicaragua - 1896 |
Dominican Republic - 1965 |
Gary Power's U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR |
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Nicaragua - 1926 |
Dominican Republic - 1916 Again? |
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba |
|
Philippine independence established |
Norte, Nicaragua |
US invades Grenada |
|
Iran |
Iranian hostage crisis begins |
American hostages released |
USS Vincennes shoots down Iranian passenger jet |
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Rescue of Hostages fails |
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Israel |
Proclaimed as state |
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Japanese Americans |
Forced to move to Concentration camps |
Congress votes $20,000 to each |
|
|
Jefferson, Thomas |
Born |
First Secretary of State |
becomes President |
|
Jews |
Rounded up by Paris Police |
|
|
|
Johnson, President Lyndon |
Great Society |
War on Poverty |
|
|
Keating, Jr. |
convicted: S&L |
|
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Kerner report |
Race relations |
|
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King, Jr., Martin Luther |
Awarded Nobel prize |
National Holiday |
Assassinated |
|
Korea |
Divided |
US agrees to build $5 billion nuclear power plant for North Korea |
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Labor |
Taft-Hartley Act |
Fair Labor Standards Act passed |
National Labor Relations Act signed by Roosevelt |
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Workmen's Compensation Act is passed |
Carpenters Union Ordered to Hire More Women |
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (40 hr work week) |
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Labor disputes |
Reagan fires air traffic controllers |
Truman orders U.S. Army to seize nation's railroads |
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Suppressed by military By President Jackson |
soft coal mines seized by Army |
federal troops battle striking railroad workers |
|
Lend-Lease aid to Russia |
Approved |
|
|
|
Lewis and Clark expedition |
Begins |
|
|
|
Lincoln, President Abraham |
Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth |
Primary interest is to save the Union |
Gettysburg Address |
|
Clashes with Supreme Court over habeas corpus |
Assassination trial ends -- improperly conducted |
|
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Abolition of slavery |
Born |
|
Line-item veto |
Enacted |
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|
|
Litigation |
Dow Corning silicone breast implants |
|
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|
Mandela |
Men of the Year |
|
|
|
Marshall Plan |
Proposed |
Act signed by Truman |
|
|
Marshall, John |
Chief Justice of Supreme Court |
|
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|
Mason, George |
Born |
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|
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Medical |
Fewer doctors needed - subsidized |
|
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|
Medicare |
socialist-like law |
|
|
|
Men of the Year |
Rabin |
Arafat |
Mandela |
|
Mencken, H. L. |
Born |
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|
Mexican war |
Begins |
Ends |
|
|
Mexico |
Bailed out |
Nationalizes petroleum industry |
US declares war on Mexico |
|
Military |
Homosexuals, gays |
Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) established |
Hernandez, Mexican-American citizen, shot dead by military |
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Men must register for the draft |
USS Vincennes shoots down Iranian passenger jet |
first women sworn into regular US Navy |
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Okinawans want our troops to leave |
Latin American soldiers trained |
Military Medical Benefits Amendments passed |
|
US Marine Corps created |
"Don't Ask Don't Tell" in the military |
DOD formed |
|
WAVES created |
Japanese girl raped |
US Air Force established |
|
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|
Women's Army Corps (WAC) deactivated |
"Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and Transition Assistance Act of 1992" |
|
|
Military school |
First woman admitted |
Shannon Faulkner enters The Citadel |
admitting women to the military academies, act signed |
|
Militia |
Freemen standoff |
|
|
|
Minimum wage law |
First |
Minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.15 |
|
|
Mitchell, Attorney General |
released on parole |
|
|
|
Money |
Federal Reserve System is created |
|
|
|
Silver Certificates abandoned |
"In God We Trust" added |
Stock Market Crashed |
|
Money Laundering |
"Bank Secrecy Act" |
ANNUNZIO-WYLIE ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ACT |
MONEY LAUNDERING CONTROL ACT OF 1986 |
|
Money Laundering |
"MONEY LAUNDERING SUPPRESSION ACT OF 1994" |
|
|
|
Narcotics |
First Act: Bars opium |
Harrison Act |
See War on Drugs |
|
NASA |
Hubble Space Telescope launched |
Challenger Explodes |
Space Station Program started |
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|
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|
|
Neil Armstrong on the moon |
NASA & Space Act of 1958 signed by Eisenhower |
|
|
National Park Service |
Created |
National Park Service employees in having to live in $584,000 shacks |
|
|
National Public Radio |
Begins broadcasting |
|
|
|
Nationalized |
railroads |
|
|
|
Native Americans (Indians) |
Second Seminole War |
Declared to be aliens by Supreme Court |
Sand Creek Massacre |
|
Blackfeet Slaughter |
Ordered to move to reservations |
Dawes Act passed |
|
Congress grants US citizenship |
Battle of the Little Big Horn - Custer bites the dust |
Sitting Bull surrenders |
|
Creek Indians lose their land |
Cherokee Indians moved, "Trail of Tears" |
Indian Removal Act signed by Jackson |
|
Ohio Indians cede their land to the US |
Chickasaw Indians cede their lands |
Seminole wars |
|
Removed from Black Hills country because Gold found |
900,000 acres in the Oklahoma opened to whites |
First Indian reservation |
|
Sioux lands ceded |
Ohio Territory ceded |
Navajos get moved |
|
Sioux lose more land |
Become wards of the government (Indian Appropriation Act) |
Not allowed to sue |
|
"Sitting Bull" is arrested and shot |
Wounded Knee Massacre and here |
Cherokee Indians sign treaty to give up land |
|
NATO |
Treaty signed |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nixon, President Richard |
Born |
Signs "Federal Election Campaign Act" |
Visits China |
|
Nixon impeachment |
"I'm not a crook" |
|
|
North Vietnam |
U.S. Bombing begins |
|
|
|
Nuclear Devices/Power |
Nuclear nonproliferation treaty is signed |
first self-sustaining fission |
|
|
Three Mile Island Accident |
Chernobyl Disaster |
first hydrogen bomb is exploded |
|
Obscenity |
First trial |
|
|
|
Panama |
Canal Given up |
Manuel Noriega takes over |
|
|
Parties (Political) |
U.S. Republicans regain majorities in both houses of Congress |
|
|
|
Paul Revere |
Rides for the American Revolution |
|
|
|
Payola |
Congress investigates |
|
|
|
PBS |
Begins operation |
|
|
|
Peace Corps |
Established |
|
|
|
Personal Finance |
Employee Retirement Income Security Act creates IRAs |
New Bankruptcy law |
|
|
|
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|
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Philippines |
Aquino beats Marcos |
Declared a free commonwealth by Roosevelt |
U.S. Army wages war against Filipino revolutionists |
|
Philosophy |
John Locke born |
Thomas Hobbes born |
|
|
Police Abuse |
Rodney King |
Randomly stopping cars |
"MOVE" firebombed |
|
Police State |
Federal agencies packing guns |
60,000 armed agents |
|
|
Political Correctness |
General Ralston |
|
|
|
Poll tax |
barred in elections |
|
|
|
Polygamy |
Congress outlaws (Mormans) |
|
|
|
Pony Express |
Started |
|
|
|
Post Office Department |
On strike |
U.S. Post Office becomes independent |
Created |
|
Rural Mail delivery begins |
First US Post Office |
|
|
Poverty |
More people are officially poor |
|
|
|
Presidential news conference |
First on TV |
|
|
|
Prisons |
Riots due to "Drug War" Crowding |
|
|
|
Privacy |
Clinton creates database of 300,000 citizens at Whitehouse |
"PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT" |
RIGHT TO FINANCIAL PRIVACY ACT |
|
Private Property |
Soviet Union |
|
|
|
Prohibition |
Eighteenth amendment ratified |
OK to drink 3.2 Beer |
Prohibition Enforcement Act (also known as the Volstead Act) |
|
Federal Alcohol Control Administration |
Ended |
|
|
Public Acts |
Witch executed |
Salem Witch Trials |
clergyman and 5 women convicted of witchcraft |
|
Public Choice |
James Buchanan born |
Thomas Hobbes born |
American Political Science Association founded |
|
Public Health Service |
Established |
|
|
|
Puerto Rico |
Becomes Territory of US - Jones Act passed |
|
|
|
Rabin |
Men of the Year |
|
|
|
Race Relations |
segregation is unconstitutional on public buses |
|
|
|
"Separate but equal" facilities |
Head Start, Johnson |
Japanese excluded from owning land |
|
Affirmative Action affirmed by Supreme Court |
Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed by Johnson |
Voting Rights Act signed by Johnson |
|
Affirmative Action causes? |
Kerner Report |
Equal Employment Opportunity Act |
|
Gov. Faubus of Arkansas blocks school integration |
E.O. 11246 establishes equal opportunity obligations |
Eisenhower orders Army to escort black children to school |
|
E. O. 11063 prohibited racial discrimination in housing |
The Civil Rights Act of 1991 |
Ku Klux Klan founded in Pulaski, Tennessee |
|
Japanese excluded from immigration |
Raced based programs are unconstitutional |
Race based contract awards are unconstitutional |
|
Police acquitted. Riots start in Los Angeles |
Racial segregation in hospitals banned |
Brown v. Board of Education |
|
Right to Vote |
Busing of Students |
Segregation in intrastate public transportation banned |
|
The Bell Curve published |
|
|
|
Railroads |
British |
Regulation; Elkins Act |
federal troops battle striking railroad workers |
|
First Regulated |
Army to operate ordered by Truman |
Hepburn Act increases regulation |
|
Staggers Rail Act |
US government seized control of all railroads |
|
|
Reagan, President Ronald |
Revises Budget |
|
|
|
Regulations |
OSHA established |
"Poison Prevention Packaging Act" |
|
|
AIDS Housing Opportunity Act |
$6 billion highway bill repeals 55 mph speed limit |
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 |
|
Child Protection and Toy Safety Act of 1969 |
Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act |
Age Discrimination Act of 1975 |
|
"Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act" - beginning of Nanny State |
Motor Carrier Act passed -- cuts back some regulations |
National Plumbing Products Efficiency Act passed - limits flushes to 1.6 gallons! |
|
Americans with Disabilities Act signed |
caution labels on cigarettes |
Agriculture Act of 1949 -- sets milk price |
|
CDA law blocked - decency on the internet |
Freeze on all retail food prices by Nixon |
Fair Labor Standards Act passed |
|
Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act |
Mandatory retirement age raised to 70 by Carter |
Smoking on domestic airlines banned |
|
Federal Trade Commission Act |
Bank Secrecy Act |
TV industry |
|
Mann-Elkins Act -- Communications |
Wheeler-Lea Act is passed - more drug control |
"Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act" enacted |
|
Miller-Tydings Act allows price fixing |
Ex-Lax ingredients banned |
FTC pounces on condom mfg. |
|
Restaurant Menus - FDA |
working hours, Britain |
Equal Pay Act |
|
Rural Abandoned Mine Program (RAMP |
Federal Boat Safety Act |
Phones must include volume controls |
|
Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed |
minimum wage law passed |
Clean Air Act passed |
|
Supreme Court approves business |
Leaded gasoline banned |
Wheeler-Lea Act passed, Federal Trade Commission |
|
Titanic Maritime Memorial Act |
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (40 hr work week) |
Rent control starts in New York |
|
Toxic Substances Control Act |
Endangered Species Preservation Act |
Federal government bans use of cyclamates |
|
Trading with the Enemy Act |
Humane Methods of Slaughter Act |
Child Nutrition Act becomes law |
|
"Child Protection Act" |
"Fair Packaging and Labeling Act" |
National Energy Act (Natural Gas deregulation |
|
Religion |
"In God We Trust" on Currency |
"In God We Trust" on coins |
"under God" added to the Pledge of Allegiance |
|
Defense of Marriage Act |
Soviet Union ends decades of religious repression |
Troops arrest Brigham Young |
|
Jim Bakker is convicted on 24 counts |
William Tyndale burned at the stake |
Mormons abolish polygamy |
|
Prayer in public schools |
"In God We Trust" becomes US motto |
No prayers in U.S. Public schools |
|
Start of 7th millennium |
Michael Servetus burned at the stake for blasphemy |
heresy punishable by death |
|
Government subsidizes? |
Pope Innocent VIII gets rough on witches |
|
|
Reno, Janet |
Born |
Becomes first female Attorney General |
|
|
Revolutionary War |
Begins |
|
|
|
Revolutions |
elected government of Chile overthrown |
|
|
|
RICO law |
passed |
Signed |
|
|
Riots |
Blacks in Newark |
Civil War |
Detroit, Mich. |
|
Police acquitted. Riots start in Los Angeles |
National Guard kills 4 at Kent State |
Miami -- because police acquitted |
|
Watts |
|
|
|
Rodney King |
Brutalized on video tape |
Police acquitted. Riots start in Los Angeles |
Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell, violated his civil rights |
|
Roosevelt, Franklin D. |
Born |
|
|
|
Announces New Deal |
Creates Forest Service |
Dies |
|
Russia |
February Revolution |
|
|
|
S&L |
Keating Five hearings |
|
|
|
Keating convicted |
Savings & Loan Scandal |
Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act |
|
Scandals |
Mary Jo Kopechne's last ride with Senator Kennedy |
FBI director, Williams Sessions sacked by Clinton |
Congressman Dan Rostenkowski indicted |
|
President Ford pardoned Nixon |
Starr Report is released on Clinton/Lewinsky |
Travel Office Scandal |
|
sexually explicit photos of the Greek Premier's wife published |
Huang in the Whitehouse |
Iran-Contra Scandal |
|
Vincent Foster commits suicide? |
Nixon impeachment |
Nixon announces resignation |
|
Watergate Trial begins |
John Huang affair |
Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns for bribery |
|
Reagan admits selling arms to Iran |
Clinton/Lewinsky affair begins |
drugs donated to Bosnia are defective |
|
Schools |
First Public School |
EQUAL ACCESS ACT |
Triton Project |
|
School-to-Work Opportunities Act |
Signed by Clinton |
|
|
|
Search-and-seizure |
USSR |
RICO Law |
|
|
Secret Service |
Created |
|
|
|
Senate |
Rebecca L. Fulton first woman senator |
|
|
|
Senator McCarthy |
Begins his campaign to roust Communists |
|
|
|
Sexual Harassment |
Court removes a barrier |
|
|
|
Kelly Flinn gets court-marshalled |
EEOC regulates |
Anita Hill nails Clarence Thomas |
|
Slavery |
Dred Scott decision |
|
|
|
Smoking |
Ads law by Congress |
Banned in bars |
Government Report |
|
Ads law signed by President |
Banned on domestic airlines |
Settlement |
|
caution labels on cigarettes |
Britain bans cigarette advertising on TV |
Clinton signs order to prevent sales of tobacco to children |
|
Clinton declares war on tobacco |
Florida reaches settlement |
Government says cigarettes are harmful |
|
Second-hand |
Second-hand |
No sales to anyone under 18 law |
|
Social Choice |
Thomas Hobbes born |
Amartya Sen wins Nobel Prize |
|
|
Social Security |
Social Security Act, Roosevelt |
First Check delivered |
Reagan modifies |
|
Social Security Administration is an independent agency |
|
|
|
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
Grain embargo by U.S. |
|
|
|
Soviet Union |
Formally dissolved |
Russian Famine Relief Act |
Soviet Troops invade Afghanistan |
|
Formed or maybe? |
Soviets shoot down Flight 007 |
Ends decades of religious repression |
|
Hungarian revolt crushed |
Bolshevik Revolution, aka The October Revolution |
Poland and Hungary revolt |
|
Space |
first artificial satellite launched by U.S.S.R. |
|
|
|
Space shuttle Challenger |
Explodes |
|
|
|
Space Station |
Program started |
|
|
|
Spanish-American War |
USS Maine blows up |
Ends by treaty |
|
|
Spies and Spying |
The Espionage and Sabotage Act passed |
Central Intelligence Agency created |
|
|
U-2 spy plane shot down over USSR |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed |
American Spy plane shot down on Soviet border |
|
Spoils system |
acknowledged |
|
|
|
Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") |
Proposed by Reagan |
|
|
|
Subsidies |
"Watermelon Research and Promotion Improvement Act of 1993" |
ETHANOL tax break extended by Congress |
Farm Bill signed by Reagan |
|
Canada announces cutback in passenger rail service |
Chrysler Corp. Bailed out |
Corporation for Public Broadcasting established |
|
Fewer Doctors incentive |
Hatch Act - Agriculture |
Federal Farm Loan Act |
|
Supreme Court |
"one man, one vote" decision |
Supremacy of Federal government over states established |
Rules on "Hustler v. Falwell" |
|
Affirmative Action affirmed |
life imprisonment without parole not allowed |
death penalty is struck down |
|
Affirmative Action Set-asides |
Approves RICO law against anti-abortionists |
Establishes right to review constitutionality of laws |
|
Agricultural Adjustment Act |
freedom of speech |
Roe v. Wade decision |
|
Brown v. Board of Education |
"separate but equal" facilities |
"fair trade" price-fixing laws are not binding |
|
cops can't randomly stop cars |
Regulation of businesses is legal |
Forfeiture, Bennis case |
|
Dred Scott decision |
Jobs - Affirmative Action |
State prisoner's rights |
|
Drug test are "searches" |
Segregation in intrastate public transportation banned |
Bank Secrecy Act affirmed |
|
Gerrymandering is not allowed |
Capital Punishment now ok |
Quotas in contracts are acceptable |
|
Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law is no good |
First Female Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor |
First black, Clarence Thomas |
|
No term limits in states |
interception of communist propaganda |
Segregated Private Schools must pay income tax |
|
OK to burn flag |
Civil forfeiture |
Virginia Military Institute must admit women |
|
Prayer in public schools |
Bad prison conditions ok |
obscenity |
|
Raced based programs are unconstitutional |
Race based contract awards are unconstitutional |
Miranda versus Arizona |
|
Refuses to hear "Illinois antifornication statute" |
segregation is unconstitutional on public buses |
state can enforce compulsory vaccination |
|
Third-degree or other coercive methods OK |
Work week limits unconstitutional |
Busing of Students |
|
Taiwan |
Diplomatic relations |
|
|
|
Taxes |
Income Tax approved |
Reagan signs tax and budget reductions |
tax on beards |
|
Proposition 13 |
Tariff Act of 1930 |
"read my lips" Bush increases taxes |
|
Term limits |
House of Representatives rejects it |
|
|
|
Terrorism |
Animal Enterprise Protection Act |
|
|
|
World Trade Center bombed |
Oklahoma City Federal Building is bombed |
Anti terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act passed |
|
Texas, Republic of |
Recognized by U.S. |
|
|
|
Theory of Evolution |
Teaching banned in "Monkey Trial" |
Scopes arrested |
"Monkey Trial" began |
|
Three Mile Island |
Accident -- Nuclear power |
|
|
|
Tobacco |
See Smoking |
|
|
|
Treaties and International agreements |
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) |
|
|
|
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) formed |
CFCs (chloroflourocarbons) banned |
medium-range intermediate nuclear weapons banned |
|
Truman, President Harry |
E.O. Establishes "Federal Employee Loyalty Program" |
|
|
|
Truth in Lending Act |
Passed, also called Consumer Credit Protection Act |
|
|
|
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
Established |
|
|
|
U.S.S.R. |
See Soviet Union |
|
|
|
United Nations |
Founding |
Taiwan expelled from UN |
|
|
USS Maine |
Blows up |
|
|
|
USS Pueblo |
Seized by North Koreans |
|
|
|
Vagueness |
Americans with Disabilities Act signed |
|
|
|
Veterans Administration |
Established |
|
|
|
Vietnam |
U.S. Embargo ends |
French defeated |
diplomatic recognition given by Clinton |
|
Vietnam War |
150,000 Anti-war demonstrators march |
|
|
|
draft evaders pardoned |
First US combat forces arrive |
Last U.S. troops leave |
|
McNamara apologizes |
Fall of Saigon |
"Agent Orange" class-action suit |
|
US troop withdrawal begins |
North Vietnamese torpedo boats attack U.S. Destroyers? |
Vietnam Moratorium Day |
|
Volunteer's Dilemma |
Kitty Genovese is killed while 38 watch |
Woman raped while others watch |
|
|
Wage and Price Controls |
"Office of Price Stabilization" sets profits |
Freeze on all retail food prices by Nixon |
Lever Act sets prices on farm products |
|
Nixon announces 90-day freeze |
|
|
|
Wage Stabilization Board |
Freezes wages |
|
|
|
War Between the States |
See Civil War |
|
|
|
War Department |
Established |
|
|
|
War on Drugs |
Cabinet-level drug czar created |
Harrison Act |
|
|
"Drug-Free America Act" |
"Anti-Drug Abuse Act" |
"COMPREHENSIVE DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ACT" |
|
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 |
"The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act" amended |
ANTI-DRUG ABUSE AMENDMENTS ACT |
|
Harrison Drug Act - the beginning |
Nixon announces start |
Narcotic Control Act of 1956 |
|
Marihuana Tax Act (Marihuana Traffic Act) [alternate spelling, "marijuana"] |
D.A.R.E. is started |
William J. Bennett new czar |
|
Opium regulated |
Noriega convicted |
Drug test are "searches" says Supreme Court |
|
Time says D.A.R.E. is ineffective |
Coast Guard cutter opens fire on a fishing boat |
Reagan announces war on drugs |
|
War on Poverty |
Johnson |
Begins |
|
|
Wars and such |
United States deploys 572 missiles in Europe |
medium-range intermediate nuclear weapons banned |
Kellogg-Briand Pact signed by Hoover |
|
"Operation Desert Storm" begins in Iraq |
Arming the Third World |
Hydrogen bomb exploded |
|
Bush announces reductions in Nuclear Arms |
Cuban Missile Crisis |
nuclear-tipped Jupiter missiles in Turkey |
|
Kellogg-Briand Pact abolishes War! |
export of U.S. arms to belligerents banned |
War of Independence ends |
|
first hydrogen bomb is exploded |
Neutrality Act of 1939 allows export of arms |
War Powers Act Passed |
|
Kellogg-Briand Pact signed by Hoover |
Korean Armistice signed |
Iraq invaded Kuwait |
|
Peace signed with West Germany |
US and USSR agree, no more chemical weapons |
Pentagon Papers" excerpted |
|
US sends missiles into Iraq for punishment |
UN forces invade Korea |
Nuclear histeria |
|
War of 1812 |
Korean War begins |
US troops leave Iraq |
|
Warsaw ghetto |
Uprising by Jews in Germany, WWII |
|
|
|
Washington, D.C. |
See District of Columbia |
|
|
|
Washington, George |
Born |
Inaugurated as president |
Farewell address |
|
Lays foundation stone for White House |
|
|
|
Weapons |
First atomic bomb detonated |
Hydrogen bomb exploded |
|
|
Weather Bureau, US |
Begins operations |
|
|
|
Welfare |
2.7 million Americans receive food stamps |
Food Security Act (FSA) |
|
|
British School Meals Act |
National School Lunch Act |
Food stamp program |
|
Federal Housing Act creates slums |
Medicare bill signed by Johnson |
Conference on Food, Nutrition and Health |
|
housing and urban renewal -- $1 billion -- signed by Johnson |
"30 million Americans (1 in 7) are suffering from hunger" per Gore |
More people are officially poor |
|
Reform act signed by Clinton |
Clinton softens blow of new law |
Humphrey-Hawkins "full employment" Bill signed by Carter |
|
War on Poverty bill signed |
CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AMENDMENTS ACT |
Johnson signs $1 billion anti-poverty program |
|
West Point Military Academy |
First females |
|
|
|
Whitewater scandal |
special prosecutor appointed |
|
|
|
Women's Rights |
Idaho grants women right to vote |
|
|
|
Assigned to Navy Ships |
West Point Academy |
Equal Pay Act of 1963 |
|
Education Amendments of 1972 |
Virginia Military Institute must admit women |
first women sworn into regular US Navy |
|
Shannon Faulkner enters The Citadel |
admitting women to the military academies, act signed |
National Organization for Women (NOW) formed |
|
Workmen's compensation law |
Approved |
|
|
|
World Court |
US withdraws |
|
|
|
World Health Organization |
Established |
|
|
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WWI (World War I) |
Treaty of Versailles is signed |
World War I ends |
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Wilson asks for War Declaration |
War on Germany is declared |
Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassination starts it |
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WWII (World War II) |
Germany invades Poland. The start of the war. |
Britain declares war on Germany |
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Japan surrenders |
Japanese Peace Treaty signed |
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Japanese Americans sent to camps |
V-E Day - Germany surrenders |
D-Day |
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