1. 1950s
Presidents:
Truman
Eisenhower
“military-industrial
complex”

2. Cold War escalation

3. Beginnings of Civil Rights

4. Suburbs and white flight

5. Rock n Roll

6. television

7. 1960s Presidents: Kennedy— “New Frontier” “ask not what
your country can
do for you…”
L.B. Johnson—
“Great Society”
Nixon

8. Cold War escalation

9. Kennedy’s assassination

10. Johnson’s programs

11. Civil Rights movement

12. Other movements
Roe v. Wade (1973)

13. Anti-Vietnam War protests

14. Counterculture

15. 1970s Presidents: Nixon—”I am not a crook” Ford (only President NOT
elected)
Carter

16. detente

17. Nixon’s resignation

18. Environmentalism
(from 1962)

19. Carter’s administration
Panama Canal
Camp David Accords
Iran

20. Rising gas prices

21. 1970s culture
Bilingual education

22. 1980s
Presidents
Reagan
George Bush

23. Reagan’s administration
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

24. Challenger explosion

25. Iran contra scandal
Oliver North

26. 1980s culture

27. 1990s
Presidents
George Bush
Clinton

28. Bush’s administration
Rodney King beating
Clarence Thomas and
Anita Hill
Persian Gulf War

29. Clinton’s administration
Reno (Attorney General), Albright (Secretary of State)

30. Odds and ends
cloning
AIDS quilt

31. 2000 to the present
President
George W. Bush

32. What else has happened in your lifetime? What will your future hold?
(Starbucks, 1971)
(1955)