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Summary Edexcel A Level History, Paper 2 - USA: Conformity and Challenge, TIMELINE (specification tailored)

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- Specification-tailored timeline - For Edexcel A Level History - Paper 2 - Unit 2, USA: Conformity and Challenge, - Categorised per year (rows) and theme (column) - Covers each decade (50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s)

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Year Politics Economics Black As + Hispanic Women Gays + workers + students Culture
(spanish origin) + Native As
(tribal origin)

1955 EISENHOWER Economics Black A’s Women Gays + workers + students Cultural conformity +
- Urbanisation + aff 1955-63 Montgomery 1955 The Pill - 1960 (1965 = 6.5m The Kinsey Reports - 1948-52 challenge 1955-63
1960 Vietnam War 1955 - 75 Yazoo city NAACP petition users)
Highways - NI + DHA 1956 white CC - 1955 Sexual liberalisation!! (+) Sexually explicit films
AMERICAN DREAM Emmett till 1955 (+) Social consciousness
Little Rock 1957 intervention Cycle of prosperity!! Browder v Gayle - 1956 (Open Mind 1957, female lead
Suburbia Southern Manifesto - 1956 in I Love Lucy 1951-57)
Poverty - housing riots + race Little Rock - 1957 (+) Sexualisation - ATHA
from rural poverty / Jim Greensboro - 1960
Crowism NOI - 1960 (-) Conformity culture
The TEENAGER SNCC forms - 1960 (+/-) Advertising + fear
More money on ads than
Levittowns Hispanic As education, revenue increased
On the road culture No rights + long lives on by 1000% for tv advertising
reservations companies

Native As Music
Federal govt aimed to shift Rock and roll (Freed - 1953)
away from tribalism & tradition, Howl poem AG - 1956
towards US cultural Beatnicks - 1958 (dupe)
assimilation Fears about delinquency - 50s
Elvis (1956) & motown - 1959

1960 KENNEDY - democrat Economics Black A’s Women Culture
- Urbanisation + aff 1955-63 Freedom Rides - 1961 (+) = change / (-) = continuity
1964 Vietnam War 1955 - 75 Albany Campaign - 1961-62 Feminine Mystique - 1963
Rise of the teenager Meredith - 1962 Female flight attendants fired if Cultural conformity +
Bay of pigs - may 1961 Credit + suburbia Birmingham - 1963 (+ KKK married or 32 - 1963 challenge 1955-63
Cuban missile crisis - Oct CARS → on the road culture attacks)
1962 Growth of service industries Divorce rates rose almost (above points)
New Frontier New tech because of JFK’s KKK ERA till 1965ish 100% - 60s
Peace corps space programme 1960 = 75% had a tv
Space race, NASA, space Hispanic As
programme Decline of inner city ghettos - Poverty and exploitation on
National Parks & unofficial segregation as reservations
environmentalism population increased + whites No rights
AS$ MO SNAP CEEO FOOD flocked to the suburbs = white
(-) Medi SCR HUD flight Native As
(-) E orders / Cold War motive FHA discrimination + riots

, 1964 LBJ - democrat Economics Black A’s Women Workers + gays + students Culture
- March on Washington - 1964 The Pill - 1960 Hair (broadway) - 1968 (naked (+) = change / (-) = continuity
1968 Vietnam War 1955 - 75 1960 - 70 = As on Aid for Mississippi F Summer - 1964 cast)
Tet offensive (Walter Cronkite dependent children increased Watts - 1964 NOW - 1966 No spec point
comment) + My Lai massacre from 3m → 8.4m Malcolm X assassinated - NY Radical Women Restriction of political literature
1968 (Seymour Hersh 1965 The Feminists - 1968 - Berkeley - 1965
exposure) Energy crisis Harlem - 1965 Miss America (NYRW) - 1968 Stop the draft week - 1967
Selma - 1965 (-) Jane Daniels - 1966 DNC (Piagasus one, LSD
Civil Rights Act - 1964 1965 - 68 = Deficit grew from Chicago 1965 - 66 Executive order 11375 - may rumour, 30k New Left
Voting rights act - 1965 $1.6bn → $25.3bn Meredith march - 1966 1967 members demonstrating
Wilderness act - 1964 PPC - 1968 contempt for the political
Memphis - 1968 process, 12k police) - 1968
OEO - Head Start + Upward April 3rd 1968 - King dies
Board 1965
ESEA + HEA 1965 Black Power - 1966
Demo HUD Omni Black power book - 1967
Meredith march - 1966
(-) Poverty not eliminated, CORE + SNCC radicalise -
15.5bn on GS vs 120bn on 1966 + 67
Vietnam 1965 - 73, GS was a
casualty of Vietnam Strom thurmond’s 24hr+
filibuster - 1967

Native As
La Huelga / The Pilgrimage /
National boycott of table
grapes + the delano grape
workers’ strike - 1965

1968 NIXON - republican Economics Black A’s Women Workers + gays + students Culture
- SILENT MAJORITY (+) = change / (-) = continuity
1972 84% = too many As on welfare PPC + Memphis - 1968 Operation Rescue - 1967 The moratorium - largest
Vietnam War 1955 - 75 that should be working - 1968 King is assassinated - 1968 (abortion clinic sit ins) anti-war protest - 1969 No spec point
Energy crisis National Right to Life
(Wallace + Humphrey vs Committee forms - 1967 Kent State + Jackson state
Nixon – 1968 election) OPEC oil embargo Black Panthers infiltration - (catholic church) shootings - 1970
Operation Chaos - 1967 1969 DNC convention - 1972
Griswold V Connecticut 1968 (McGovern)
Tet offensive - Jan 1968 (60m 2x social security - Nixon Northwest airlines 1968
Americans watched live on tv) Sprogis v united - 1970 Stonewall riots - 1969
My Lai Massacre - March 1968 Swann vs C-M BoE - 1971 NOW strike for equality - 1970 Woodstock music festival -
(Calley = scapegoated) (school integration + bussing) 1969
no of children in segregated
EPA + OSHA 1970 schools fell 68 to 8%
Family Assistance Plan
BLOCKED - 1971 Nixon set quotas for black
Vetoed the Child Dev Act - employment in federal jobs -
1971 1972
Pentagon papers - 1971

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