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Book Burning In Nazi Germany
On May 10, 1933, in an act of ominious signifigance, the student's burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of " un- german' books, thereby persaging an era of uncompromising state censorship. At the meeting places, students thew the pillaged, banned books into bonfires with a great joyous ceromony that included live music, singing " Fire Oaths", and incinations. -
New Technologies
By the 1950's, sci-fi fiction could picture cars with four-wheel brakes, facotry- installed radios, heaters, tinted glass, and faster engines. Sci-Fi plots could also include computers. By 1946, the first all- electronis computer,ENIAC was in use a the University of Pennyslvania. It replaced the analog computer, first formed by Vannerar Bush in 1930. By 1950, the ENIAC had developed into UNIVAC, the firdt mass- produced computer. -
Paris Peace Treaty
The Paris Peace Treaties were signed February 10th, 1947, the outcome of the Paris Peace conference, held from July 29th, to October 15th 1946. The victorious wartime allied powers ( principally the united states, soviet union, united kingdom, and france) negotiated the details of peace treaties with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland following the end of World War 2 in 1945. -
Rise of Suburbial Levittown
Although 1950s, suburbua conjures sisions of traditional family life, idyllic domesticity and tability, the story of the suburbization of America is also one of exclusion, segregation and persecution. Levittown itself arguably embodied the best and worst of the post wat American Story. -
Hollywood Blacklist
The Holly-wood Blacklist- as the broader entertainment industry blacklist generally known- was the mid- 20th century practice of denying emplyment to screen writers, actors, directors, musicians. Artists were barred from work on the basis of their alleged membership in or sympothy with the communist party and refusal to assist invesigations into the party's activities. Even during the period of its strictest enforcement, the late 1940s through the late 1950s. -
Loyalty Oath Protests
In the spring og 1949, aruments about free speech, privacy, and professionalism intensified most publicly in California. Protestors were taken to Supreme Court. The Court however, upheld the regents requirment for an oath. The turmoil continued at the campus level, leading eventually into the Free Speech movement of the 1960s. -
Korean War
The Korean War, " Fatherland Liberation War" was a wat between North and South Korea, in which a united nations force led by the united states of America fought for te South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediatly afterwards. -
Comic Book Ban
The comic book ban industry was ruled by the toughest censorship body in America: the comics code Authority. The code was writen in 1954 as an asnwer to a nationwide anti-comics movement. The comics code was the only way out "wit its long and stringent set of guidelines, prohibiting everything from "excessive levels of violence" to " self destructure use of tobacco" the code of everything. -
The McCarthy Hearings
In the 1950s, US Senator Joseph McCarthy bean claiming that many in the state department, the pentagon, and acting anf writing guilds in Hollywood and elsewhere were disloyal because of ties to the communist party. Even without specific proof, McCarthy managed to place hundreds of writers, doctors and directors, governemtn officials and ithers under so much suspicion that many were fired and thus unable to get employed for years. -
Brown V. Board Of Education
Brown V. Board of Education Of Topeka was a landmark United Statess Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing seperate punlic schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy V. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed State- Sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied public education. -
The Cold War
It was termed as "Cold" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan that the two sides supported. The Cold War split the temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. -
Militarism and Nuclear Energy
Fahreneit 451s atomic bombs and electronis robot with poisonous needles reflect the concern Bradbury and other science fiction writers had during the 1930's and 1940's about the use of guidance systems, bombs, and other forms of weaponary for tortue and widespread destruction.
