Decades for AP US History Exam
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Math / Symbols | English |
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 1940 | Select Training and Service Draft |
| 1940 | Lend-Lease Act |
| 1940 | Atlantic Charter |
| 1940 | Germany attacks USSR |
| 1940 | Pearl Harbor |
| 1940 | US enters WWII |
| 1940 | Battle of Midway |
| 1940 | Japanese relocation |
| 1940 | Manhatten Project |
| 1940 | Stalingrad |
| 1940 | invasion of Italy |
| 1940 | Smith-Connally Act |
| 1940 | D-Day |
| 1940 | Battle of the Bulge |
| 1940 | GI Bill |
| 1940 | Korematu v. US |
| 1940 | Yalta Conference |
| 1940 | Iwo Jima and Okinawa |
| 1940 | Germany Surrenders |
| 1940 | FDR Dies |
| 1940 | Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| 1940 | Japan Surrenders |
| 1940 | Truman becomes President |
| 1940 | Cold War officialy begins |
| 1940 | Vietnam war against France |
| 1940 | "Long Telegram" Speech |
| 1940 | 1st Meeting of the United Nations |
| 1940 | Philipine Independence |
| 1940 | "Iron Curtain" Speech |
| 1940 | War Production Board Created |
| 1940 | Office of Price Administration controls rationing |
| 1940 | Congress of Racial Equality Established |
| 1940 | "Zoot Suit Riots" |
| 1940 | Teheran Conference |
| 1940 | Potsdam Conference |
| 1940 | Baby Boom Begins |
| 1940 | Baby and Child Care by Spock is published |
| 1940 | Truman Doctrine |
| 1940 | Marshall Plan |
| 1940 | National Security Act |
| 1940 | Taft-Hartley Act |
| 1940 | Jackie Robison is 1st African American Baseball Player in Minor League |
| 1940 | USSR takes Czechoslovakia |
| 1940 | Berlin Airlife |
| 1940 | US recognize Israel |
| 1940 | Desegregation of military and federal government |
| 1940 | Truman Elected President |
| 1940 | Hiss Case |
| 1940 | NATO Formed |
| 1940 | USSR explodes atomic bomb |
| 1940 | Mao's communist win power in China |
| 1950 | Korean War Begins |
| 1950 | McCarthyism |
| 1950 | "Treaty of Detroit" creates new labor-management relations |
| 1950 | NSC-68 recommends military buildup |
| 1950 | US signs Mutual Security Treaty with Japan |
| 1950 | Eisenhower becomes president |
| 1950 | Stalin Dies |
| 1950 | US helps restore shah to power in Iran |
| 1950 | Korean War Ends |
| 1950 | Geneva accords partition Vietnam |
| 1950 | CIA-led coup overthrows Arbenz in Guatemala |
| 1950 | Soviets create Warsaw Pact |
| 1950 | Soviets crush uprising in Hungary |
| 1950 | Suez Crisis sparks war in middle East |
| 1950 | Soviets fire first ICBM and launch Sputnik |
| 1950 | US troops land in Lebanon |
| 1950 | Berlin Crisis |
| 1950 | Castro ousts Batista in Cuba |
| 1950 | Race Riots in Cicero, Illinois as white residents oppose residential segregation |
| 1950 | Termination Policy for Indian Tribes |
| 1950 | Rosenbergs executed |
| 1950 | Brown v. Board of Education |
| 1950 | Senate condems McCarthy |
| 1950 | West Germany Peace Contract |
| 1950 | 22nd Amendment (2 Terms President) |
| 1950 | US explodes H-Bomb |
| 1950 | Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins |
| 1950 | Highway Act |
| 1950 | Eisenhower Re-elected |
| 1950 | Elivs Presley |
| 1950 | MLK elected first president of SCLC |
| 1950 | Little Rock 9 |
| 1950 | Civil Rights Act |
| 1950 | National Defense Education Act |
| 1950 | Alaska and Hawaii become 49th and 50th state |
| 1950 | SEATO formed |
| 1950 | Dien Bien Phu captured |
| 1950 | Atomic Energy Act |
| 1950 | AFL + CLO become AFL-CLO |
| 1950 | St. Lawence Opens up |
| 1960 | Eighteen frican colonies become independent |
| 1960 | Vietcong organized in South Vietnam |
| 1960 | Sit-ins begin in Greensboro |
| 1960 | Birth control pill approved |
| 1960 | JFK Elected president |
| 1960 | Young Americans for Freedom write Sharon Statement |
| 1960 | 1st Televised Presidential Debate |
| 1960 | U-2 Incident |
| 1960 | Freedom Riders Protest segregation in transportation |
| 1960 | Bay of Pigs |
| 1960 | First man in space |
| 1960 | Peace Corps |
| 1960 | 23rd Amendment (DC voting rights) |
| 1960 | Mapp v. Ohio |
| 1960 | "Military Industrial Complex" |
| 1960 | Students for a Dem. Society issue Port Huron Statement |
| 1960 | Cuban Missle Crisis |
| 1960 | Trade Expansion Act |
| 1960 | JFK assassinated |
| 1960 | LBJ becomes president |
| 1960 | March on Washington |
| 1960 | S. Vietnam's Diem assassinated |
| 1960 | Supreme Court decides prayer in school unconstitutional |
| 1960 | Civil Rights Act passed by Congress |
| 1960 | Race Riots break out in "long, hot summers" |
| 1960 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
| 1960 | Free Speech Movement begins at Berkeley |
| 1960 | LBJ Elected president |
| 1960 | 24th Amendment (No poll tax) |
| 1960 | Escobedo v. NY |
| 1960 | "Great Society" |
| 1960 | US commits troops to Vietnam |
| 1960 | Voting Rights Act |
| 1960 | Immigration and Nationality Act |
| 1960 | Malcom X assassinated |
| 1960 | Selma to Montgomery March |
| 1960 | Riots in Watts |
| 1960 | National Organization for Women founded |
| 1960 | Department of Transportation |
| 1960 | Freedom of Information Act |
| 1960 | Miranda v. Arizona |
| 1960 | Black Panthers Organize |
| 1960 | Summer of Love |
| 1960 | Urban Race Riots |
| 1960 | 25th Amendment (President succession) |
| 1960 | Tet Offensive |
| 1960 | MLK Assassinated |
| 1960 | Rob Kennedy Assassinated |
| 1960 | Violence erupts at Democratic National Convention |
| 1960 | Nixon elected president |
| 1960 | Stonewall Inn (Gay Rights) |
| 1960 | Apollo 11 and Armstrong walks on moon |
| 1960 | National Chicano Liberation Youth Conference |
| 1960 | "Indians of all tribes" occupy Alcatraz Island |
| 1960 | Nixon affirmative action plan |
| 1960 | My Lai Massacre |
| 1960 | Silent Majority |
| 1960 | Woodstock |
| 1970 | US invade Cambodia |
| 1970 | Students at Kent State and Jackson State shot by National Guard |
| 1970 | First Earth Day |
| 1970 | Environmental Protection Agency |
| 1970 | Pentagon Papers published |
| 1970 | 26th Amendment (Voting Age) |
| 1970 | Nixon visits China and USSR |
| 1970 | CREEP stages Watergate break in |
| 1970 | Congress approves ERA and passes Title IX |
| 1970 | OPEC Oil Embargo |
| 1970 | War Powers Act |
| 1970 | Peace Agreement in Paris ends US involvement in Vietnam |
| 1970 | OPEC increases oil prices |
| 1970 | Roe v. Wade |
| 1970 | Agnew Resigns and Ford becomes VP |
| 1970 | Wounded Knee Incident |
| 1970 | Wite House tapes found in Watergate Scandal |
| 1970 | Saturday Night Massacre |
| 1970 | Nixon resigns and Ford becomes President |
| 1970 | US v. Nixon; impeachment hearings |
| 1970 | Ford Pardons Nixon |
| 1970 | Vietnam War Amnesty Program |
| 1970 | Privacy Act |
| 1970 | OPEC Oil Embargo leads to oil shortage |
| 1970 | NYC saved from bankruptcy |
| 1970 | Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act |
| 1970 | Carter Elected President |
| 1970 | Bakke v. University of California |
| 1970 | California Proposition 13 |
| 1970 | Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident |
| 1970 | Camp David Accords signed by Israel and Egypt |
| 1970 | American hostages seized in Iran |
| 1970 | USSR invades Afghanistan |
| 1970 | S. VIetnam surrenders to N. Vietnam |
| 1970 | Supreme Court upholds busing in Boston for intergration |
| 1970 | Carter pardons draft evaders |
| 1970 | Trans-Alaska Pipeline |
| 1970 | Clean Air Bill |
| 1970 | President Sadat of Egypt visits Israel |
| 1970 | Government Reorganization Bill |
| 1970 | Government Ethics Law |
| 1970 | Air Transportation Deregulation Act |
| 1970 | Civil Service Reform Act |
| 1970 | Humphrey-Hawkins Employment Bill |
| 1970 | "Boat People" |
| 1980 | Reagan elected President |
| 1980 | Attempt to rescue hostages |
| 1980 | Peacetime Draft Registration |
| 1980 | Alaska Wilderness Act |
| 1980 | Supply-Side Plan |
| 1980 | USSR grain embargo lifted |
| 1980 | AIDs identified |
| 1980 | US increase aid to El Salvador |
| 1980 | Break Air Traffic Controllers Strike |
| 1980 | ERA dies thanks to STOP-ERA |
| 1980 | US troops sent to Lebanon under Reagan |
| 1980 | START begins |
| 1980 | US invades Grenada |
| 1980 | Terrorists kill troops in Lebanon |
| 1980 | Reagan introduces SDI |
| 1980 | Reform Social Security |
| 1980 | aid to contrs despite ban |
| 1980 | Economic Recovery |
| 1980 | Reagan Re-elected |
| 1980 | Gorbachev promotes reform |
| 1980 | Gramm/ Rudman Act |
| 1980 | Supreme Court bans "moment of silence" |
| 1980 | Saving and Loans fail |
| 1980 | Iran-Contra Scandal |
| 1980 | Challenger spaceship explodes |
| 1980 | Chernobyl nuclear plant accident in USSR |
| 1980 | Stock Market over 500 points |
| 1980 | Palestinian intifada begins |
| 1980 | INF Treaty |
| 1980 | Congress bailouts Saving and Loans |
| 1980 | Clean Water Act |
| 1980 | GHWB elected President |
| 1980 | Anti-Drug Act |
| 1980 | Peace in Nicaragua and Sandistas ousted |
| 1980 | Tianamen Square Massacre |
| 1980 | Fall of Berlin Wall |
| 1980 | US invades Panama |
| 1990 | Americans with Disabilities Act |
| 1990 | Communist Regimes in Eastern Europe collapse |
| 1990 | Iraq invades Kuwait |
| 1990 | S. Africa dismantles apartheid |
| 1990 | Cold War oficially Ends |
| 1990 | Persian Gulf War |
| 1990 | USSR dissolves into independent states |
| 1990 | Recession |
| 1990 | US Hostages freed in Lebanon |
| 1990 | Rodney King Case leads to violence in LA |
| 1990 | Bill Clinton is elected president |
| 1990 | US troops to Somalia |
| 1990 | NAFTA |
| 1990 | Bio-Diversity Treaty |
| 1990 | US withdraws from Somalia |
| 1990 | Israel-PLO Oslo Peace Accords |
| 1990 | Contract with America |
| 1990 | Genocide in Rwanda |
| 1990 | US in Haiti |
| 1990 | GATT |
| 1990 | Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty |
| 1990 | Brady Bill |
| 1990 | Domestic terrorist bombs Oklahoma City Federal Building |
| 1990 | US diplomats broker peace in Bosnia |
| 1990 | Welfare Reform Bill |
| 1990 | Clinton Re-elected |
| 1990 | Romer v. Evans |
| 1990 | Anti-terrorism Bill |
| 1990 | Illegal Immigration Bill |
| 1990 | US economy Booms |
| 1990 | House impeaches Clinton |
| 1990 | Budget Surplus |
| 1990 | India and Pakistan have A-Bombs |
| 1990 | US and British bomb Iraq |
| 1990 | Senate acquits Clinton |
| 1990 | NATO bombs Serbia |
| 1990 | Antiglobilization demonstrators disrupt World Trade Oranization meeting |
| 1990 | Alden v. Maine and Coll. Sav. Bank v. FL |
| 2000 | Drunk Driving Bill |
| 2000 | GWB becomes President |
| 2000 | Bush v. Gore |
| 2000 | Dow Jones Drops 6.2% |
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