SOCIETY AND CULTURE
IN CHANGE
1917-80
, TIMELINE (1):
1919-20:
First Red Scare
1945:
1920: Emergency Quota Act
restricts immigration for the first
8 MAY: WW2 ends in Europe
time and sets a numerical limit on 1939: 6-9 AUG: USA drops bomb on
entry SEP: Hiroshima and Nagasaki; war in
18 August 1920: Women in the Outbreak of Pacific ends
USA get the vote, with the same WW2 in Europe 2 SEP: End of WW2 in Pacific 1950-53:
conditions as men Korean War
1929: 1941:
OCTOBER: 8 DEC: USA declares war on Japan 1947-54:
Wall Street Crash kick- Second Red Scare
starts The Great 11 DEC: Germany declares war on the USA
Depression
, TIMELINE (2):
1957:
4 October: USSR
first to put a 1962: 1972:
First US troops into 1964: 1979:
satellite in space 22 MAR: Equal Rights Act
Vietnam 2 JUL: Civil Rights Act passed; not ratified by
4 NOV: Hostages taken
enough states at US embassy in Tehran
1961: 1963: 1965: 1975:
President Kennedy 10 JUN: Equal Pay Immigration and Complete American
sets up a Commission Act Nationality Act withdrawal from
on the Status of abolishes quotas, but Vietnam
Women keeps a numerical limit