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harry truman
Truman's proposals were largely blocked by conservatives in Congress however, he had some legislative successes, such as the Housing Act of 1949 -
red china
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China The “fall of mainland China to communism in 1949 led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC for decades Communists entering Beijing in 1949. -
Joe McCarthy
He is known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government universities, film industry, and elsewhere ultimately the smear tactics that he used led him to be censured by the U.S. senate -
The Rpsenbergs
The Rosenbergs were the first U.S. citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during peacetime and their case remains controversial to this day. -
england's got a new queen
Queen Elizabeth II is the sixth Queen to have been crowned in Westminster Abbey in her own right. -
Panmunjom
The Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula was adopted between the Supreme Leader of North Korea and the President of South Korea -
Campanella
At the plate, Campanella quickly established himself as one of the best hitting catchers in baseball he won his second MVP in 1953 while driving in a record since broken 142 runs as a catcher, then grabbed a third MVP award in 1955 while leading the Dodgers to their first World Series title. -
Rock Around the Clock
Bill Hayley And The Comets made the famous song called
rock around the clock -
Dien Bien Phu fall
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War that took place between 13 March and 7 May 1954. It was fought between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries -
Alabama
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery Alabama it was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States -
Disneyland
Walt Disney began designing a huge amusement park to be built near Los Angeles he intended Disneyland to have educational as well as amusement value and to entertain adults and their children. -
Trouble in the Suez
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite it was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the USSR on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program -
Little Rock
he Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas -
California baseball
major league baseball changed forever It was on that date that the Los Angeles Dodgers made their debut in their new home city, 2,796 miles from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, where they had been playing since 1884 -
Hula hoops
On May 13, 1959 Arthur Melin applied for a patent for his version of the hula hoop he received U.S. Patent Number 3,079,728 on March 5, 1963 for a Hoop Toy -
space monkey
Fifty years ago when Baker made her famous flight, she had some company in the nose cone of the Jupiter ballistic missile a rhesus monkey named Able Able and Baker were shot about 360 miles up into space and experienced about nine minutes of weightlessness -
U2
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred on 1 May 1960 when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep inside Soviet territory -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution -
Ole Miss
On the evening of Sunday September 30, 1962, Southern segregationists rioted and fought state and federal forces on the campus of the University of Mississippi Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi to prevent the enrollment of the first African American student to attend the university, James Meredith, a U.S. military -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement he is best known for his time spent as a vocal spokesman for the Nation of Islam -
Birth control
Connecticut, went all the way up to the Supreme Court which ruled in 1965 that birth control is legal for married women the case set a precedent for other states and influenced numerous decisions since, including the ruling in Roe v. Wade which protects women's private medical decisions including abortion -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a music festival on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock Billed as an Aquarian Exposition 3 Days of Peace & Music and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000 -
Ayatollah's in Iran
Ruhollah Khomeini, known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader philosopher revolutionary and politician -
sally ride
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist born in Los Angeles she joined NASA in 1978 and in 1983 became the first American woman in space she was the third woman in space overall after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya -
Crack
The "crack epidemic" in the United States was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities between 1984 and 1989 the homicide rate for black males aged 14 to 17 more than doubled, and the homicide rate for black males aged 18 to 24 -
China's under martial law
During the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing the Chinese People's Liberation Army played a decisive role in enforcing martial law, suppressing the demonstrations by force and upholding the authority of the Chinese Communist Party