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Abortion Legalized
Abortion is when a miscarriage or a mother does not want her child. Today this is illegal but back in the 70’s it was ok. When a mother didn’t want her kid she would tell the doctor to kill her baby. -
KKK
The KKK were white people in the south that targeted blacks, Jews, Catholics, liberals and some others. They burned black churches, murdered, raped, castrated, and others. The black community fought back but not in violent ways they requested help from Washington for new laws to help stop the KKK but the government gave little help or no help at all. -
Al Capone
Al Capone leader of a gang, he had set a trap for a rival gang, killing six mobsters from mobsters Moran’s gang, and a friend that had tagged along. To keep an eye on the warehouse were the murders took place the mobsters rented an apartment across from the warehouse then when the truck came into sight two fake police officers got the men to line the wall without a struggle then motioned for two others to come in and shoot them with machine guns. -
Women's Rights
Women’s suffrage- in this picture it shows women in Pennsylvania, Inez Milholland led more than 5,000 marchers. The purpose of this march was to get the 19th amendment passed which allowed women the right to vote. -
St. Valentine's Massacre
Policemen recreate the Saint Valentine Massacre in order to solve the mystery of why seven mobsters were killed without putting up a fight. -
Stock Market Crash
The stock market crashed in 1929 and citizens ran to the banks to collect their money but they had nothing there. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl or Dirty Thirties lasted through 1930 to 1936 in some areas it lasted till the 40’s.The Dust Bowl was caused by severe drought, extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was brought to the American people by FDR. The New Deal was to get more jobs for Americans and to reinforce the bank. it also helped farmers get over the Dust Bowl by making sure that they didn’t do the same crops every year. -
Prohibition Ends
The prohibition era started in the 1920’s and carried on until 1933. The 18th amendment banned making, selling, possessing, and consuming alcoholic drinks illegal, the Volstead Act set the rules to enforcing the ban as well as what types of alcoholic drinks were banned. With the ratification of the 21st amendment it repealed the 18th amendment on December 5th, 1933. -
Hooverviles
Because of the great depression that started in the 1920’s Hooverville’s popped up coast to coast. Authorities didn’t recognize Hooverville’s and occasionally removed occupants for trespassing on private property. The new deal enacted special relief programs under the FTS (Federal Transient Service), which lasted from 1933-1935. -
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was the first female pilot. She was planning on flying around the world (not the first).Her first attempt was on St. Patrick’s Day 1937, because of lubrication and galling problems with the propeller hubs’ Amelia’s plane the Electra needed servicing. The Electra ended in the United States Navy’s Luke Field and after three days her flight resumed. When Earhart and Noonan were reaching Howland they couldn’t find the island and when they didn’t report in, the ship Itasca began search -
The Holocaust
The holocaust was the murder of almost 6 million Jews along with 1.5 million Jewish children in Europe by the Nazi regime and supporters between 1933-1945. Adolf Hitler became the leader of this operation. On April 30th, 1945 Hitler killed himself in his bunker, almost a month later Germany surrenders to America and their allies. The war in Europe finally ended May 8th, 1945. -
VJ Day
VJ day is the day that Japan surrendered to the Allies thus ending WW2. Since then both August 4th and 5th were known as “Victory over Japan Day” or “V-J Day”. This term has also been used for September 2nd, 1945 when the formal surrender of Japan took place. After several months after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Japan’s capitulation in the Pacific brought 6 years of hostility to a final and anticipated close. -
Atomic Bombs
Washington D.C. dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and the Japanese surrendered to Americans and their allies. The nuclear age had truly begun with the first military use of atomic weapons. -
Jackie Robinson
Jack (Jackie) Robinson became the first African American to play Major League Baseball. He was the key player in the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson is one out of many people who represented this decade in many ways, he symbolized the start of the two different races coming together because he was the first African American he showed that whites and blacks could come together to play baseball. Jackie was the inspiration for other blacks to join the MLB; this had everyone in America to look past other -
China Becomes Communist
For over 30 years China has been at war. October 1949 Mao announced his vision of a more peaceful China. The new republic was governed by Communists along with a number of smaller parties; the leaders were Chairman Mao and Communist Prime Minister Zhou Enlai. Rebuilding China after both war and foreign occupation was very difficult. The government was in chaos, there was little industry, most of it was in Manchuria and had been destroyed by the Russians when they ‘liberated’ the Japanese from th -
Sputnik
In 1952, the International Council of Scientific Unions established July 1st, 1957 to December 31st, 1958 as IGY. On July 1955 the white house announced plans to launch a satellite for the IGY. September 1955 the Naval Research Laboratory’s Vanguard proposal was chosen to represent the U.S. when the Sputnik was launched it caught the world’s attention along with the American public. -
Television
The first successful color television began commercial broadcasting on December 1953. Sales weren’t what producers wanted not until after the Rose Parade that occurred in January of the year 1953, the Rose Parade was the first color broadcasting. It wasn’t till the 60’s that color TV sales skyrocketed. -
4 Minute Mile
On May 1954 Roger Bannister ran in a meet, at the three-quarter mark at 3 minutes .07 seconds. Bannister took the lead at the 1500-meter mark at a time of 3 minutes 43 seconds; he broke the tape at 3 minutes 59.4 seconds. When the crowd heard this they erupted in pandemonium. After this meet Bannister went t win the British and Empire championships in the mile run in 1954. At the end of the year he retired and in 1955 he wrote his experiences in a book the Four Minute Mile. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks had just got off work at the Momentary department store and was tired when she bordered the bus for home. After a few stops the bus driver noticed that there were a few white passengers standing and moved the sign telling were passengers had to sit back a row. Three of the four colored passengers moved when told except for Rosa, she was not only tired from working but she was also tired of what being told to do. The bus driver called the police and had her removed and she was arrested -
NASA
NASA was established in 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act, replacing its predecessor NACA. October 1st, 1958 the agency became operational. NASA is responsible for the Apollo moon-landing missions, the Skylab space station and the Space Shuttle. -
Berlin War
The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. Its destruction, which was nearly as instantaneous as its creation, was celebrated around the world. At the end of World War II, the Allied powers divided conquered Germany into four zones, each occupied by either the United States, Great Britain, France, or the Soviet Union (as agreed at the Potsdam Conference). The same was done with Germany's capital city, Berlin. -
JFK
In the 1960 presidential election John F. Kennedy defeated republican and vice president Richard Nixon. He was the youngest elected into office, the second youngest president and the first born in the 20th century to serve as the president. He is the only catholic president, and the only president to win a Pulitzer Prize. The Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African American Civil Rights Movement, and the early stages of the Vie -
First Super Bowl
January 15, 1967
The Green Bay Packers won the first two Super Bowls, defeating the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders following the 1966 and 1967 seasons. Green Bay broke open the game with three second-half touchdowns, the first of which was set up by Wood's 50-yard return of an interception. The Chiefs' 10 points came in the second quarter, the only touchdown on a 7-yard pass from Len Dawson to Curtis McClinton. Starr completed 16 of 23 passes for 250 yards and two touchdowns and was chos -
MLK
In 1955 he joined the civil rights movement by organizing a protest for Rose Park’s arrest. Near the end of 1962 he began work for desegregation in Birmingham, Alabama. His leadership led to the desegregation of lunch counters, restrooms, fitting rooms, and drinking fountains. 1963 King helped plan a march in the nation’s capital, containing 250 thousand people came to hear his speech “I Have a Dream”. King received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. His campaign for voting rights in Selma, Alabama wa -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a three-day concert (which turned into four days) that started August 15th and ended August 18th 1969, which it involved a lot of drugs, sex, and rock ‘n roll, along with a lot of mud. The Woodstock Music Festival of ‘69 became an icon of the 60’s hippie counterculture. -
VCR
The video cassette recorder, or VCR, was introduced in the 1970’s as a way to have motion picture in your household. Despite being the first building blocks in home entertainment, they are hardly used today. DVDs and Blu Ray disc are now the most popular way of home entertainment. VCRs were a major breakthrough in home entertainment and really took a large step in technological advancement. -
Test Tube Baby
The test tube baby mean scientists made a baby without the help of two adults. The baby was made by taking the females egg and the male’s sperm and putting it into a test tube. Today this can be done successfully every time but back then it was hard to complete this task. -
Bicentennial
On July 4th, 1976 the United States had a nationwide celebration for its 200th birthday of the Declaration of Independence. Many memorabilia items were made including quarters, tokens, plaques, etc. This was a nationally celebrated event. TV shows even had specific programs just for that day. The tercentennial will take place in 2076, hopefully most of us will be able to live through it. -
Three Miles Island Disaster
The 3 Mile Island accident was the worst nuclear power accident in U.S. history. The plant installed in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania released small amounts of radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. This mishap began when a pilot operated release valve became stuck open. This allowed massive amounts of nuclear reactor coolant to leak thus making the reactor unable to cool itself down. It is believed to be human error that caused this catastrophe. -
Mount St. Helens
Mount Saint Helens is a volcano that’s in the state of Washington. In 1987 Mount Saint Helens started to show some signs of movement but not major signs. The station watched the volcano until the next day at 1 am. That day at one in the morning Mt. Saint Helens blew its top. It caused a pyroclastic blast that leveled trees. Over 87 lives were lost due to this minor explosion. -
Star Wars
Star wars was a mind game created by Ronald Reagan to distract the Soviet Union from attacking us with nuclear missiles. Every time the Russians threatened us with a nuclear weapon Regan would say star wars and freak them out. -
AIDS
AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease that can affect any part of the body. To get aids you would have to 1. Share needles 2. Transmit these diseases sexually. Symptoms include tiredness, coldness, and swollen areas. AIDS infect normally 1.2 million people a year in Africa. -
Chernobyl
Chernobyl was a major nuclear Russian disaster in the 1980’s. It killed two workers that night and caused many others to die in nuclear radiation poisoning. 20 years later Chernobyl still has lower levels of radiation in the ground. This Is recorded by a Geiger Counter. Chernobyl will not be safe to live in again until 20,000 yrs. -
Crack Cocaine
Cocaine is a substance know as a drug that can be snorted, smoked, or injected through a needle. Crack is another form of Cocaine except Cocaine is considered a rich man’s drug and Crack is a poor man’s drug. Cocaine creates a very intense high that includes nausea, drowsiness, and really bad gas. Cocaine is abused because you have to continuously do it every 30 mins to maintain the high. -
LA Riots
A high-speed pursuit ensued with speeds estimated at up to 115 mph first over freeways and then through residential neighborhoods. After two passengers were placed in the patrol car, five white Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers Stacey Koon, Laurence, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno, and Rolando Solano attempted to subdue King, who came out of the car last. In a departure from the usual procedure, which is to tackle and cuff a suspect, King was tasered, kicked in the head, beaten wit -
Hale Bopp Comet
Hale had spent many hundreds of hours searching for comets without success, and was tracking known comets from his driveway in New Mexico when he chanced upon Hale–Bopp just after midnight. Hale–Bopp's orbital position was calculated as 7.2 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, placing it between Jupiter and Saturn and by far the greatest distance from Earth at which a comet had been discovered by amateurs. Most comets at this distance are extremely faint, and show no discernible activity, but H -
Dolly the Sheep
She was cloned at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, and lived there until her death when she was six years old. When Dolly was cloned in 1996 from a cell taken from a six-year-old ewe, she became the center of much controversy that still exists today. Though scientists have cloned 10 other mammals — cows, goats, pigs, rats, mice, rabbits, cats, dogs, horses and mules. -
Columbine
Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and 1 teacher were murdered. -
Y2K
The Year 2000 problem was the subject of the early book, Computers in Crisis by Jerome and Marilyn Murray. The first recorded mention of the Year 2000 Problem on a Usenet newsgroup occurred Friday, 18 January 1985, by Usenet poster Spencer Bolles. -
9/11
9/11 is when al-Qaida leaders had terrorist hijack 4 of our planes. 2 planes crashed into the twin towers, on was the pentagon, and the third was headed for the white house but the citizens took action and brought the plane into a field saving 400 lives. Over 2,ooo lives were lost due to the towers collapsing and crushing 2/5 of all the victims. -
DC Sniper
The DC Sniper is two people who went on a killing spree and shot and killed 13 people with a sniper rifle and a pistol. A 55 yr old man was shot 6 times in the chest and survived. Police found out who the shooter was and his name was Muhammed, John. -
VT Massacre
The Virginia Tech Massacre was a shooting in 2007 that killed 32 and injured 16 people. The shooters name was Cho, a mentally unstable person. Cho had 400 rounds of ammunition and only used 197 shots to kill 32 people, injure 16, and Kill himself. -
iPhone
The original iPhone was made with plastic shield and glass screen so it could receive all Wi-Fi demands. 74 days later off the release of the iPhone the 1,000,000 iPhone was sold. Apple discontinued all iPhones except for the 3rd generation and the 4th generation. -
Osama Bin Laden
Osama Bin laden was the number one terriost of the F.B.I top ten lists from 2001 till 2011 at his death. In 1987 an American pilot mistaking the runway killed Osama’s father causing him to go on a killing spree.
