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McDonald's Corporation Founded
McDonalds was the largest hamburger fast food restaurants chain. The company began as a barbecue restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald in 1940. -
Mount Rushmore Completion
Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills in South Dakota. They built it in South Dakota to promote tourism. It too 400 workers to sculpt the 60 feet high carvings of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. -
Slinky Toy Hits the Shelves
This idea of a slinky originated when Richard James dropped a spring on the groups and watched how it moved. He brought the spring home to his wife, Betty, and the two of them attempted to come up with a name for a potential toy. Betty then came up for the name “Slinky” from the dictionary which meant sinuous and stealthy. They were finally sold in 1945 at Gimbel’s Department Store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Containment
Containment was the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits. -
Iron Curtain
A notional barrier that prevents the passage of imformation or ideas between political entities, in particular. -
Trumans Plan
Truman's policy towards the Soviet Union was one of containment. He did not destroy the USSR, by he wanted to stop it growing anymore. -
Microwave Oven
The first Microwave Oven was sold in 1947. Percy Spencer invented the first microwave over after WWII from the radar technology that was developed. The countertop microwave was introduced in 1967 by Amana Corporation. -
Marshall Plan
The Marshall Plan was the American program to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of WWII in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism. -
Berlin Airlift
An airlift that supplied food and fuel to citizens was Berlin when Russians closed off land access to Berlin. -
Apartheid
"The status of being apart" was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP government. They were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa. The rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. -
Berlin Blockade
Oe of the first major international crises of the Cold War and the first resulting in casualties -
Polaroid Camera
The polariod camera was invented by Edwin Land. Edwin founded the Polaroid Coroiration to produce his new camera. The camera allowed the photographer to remove a developing print of the picture after it had been took -
Great Leap Forward
The People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and coial capaign of the Communist party of China -
First Organ Transpland
Ruth Tucker, age 49, she had suffered from polycystic kidneys. One of her kidneys were non-functioning and the other only functioned at 10%. Both her mother and sister had also died from that same disease. History was made at Little Company of Mary Hospital on June 17, 1950 when the doctors performed successful organ transplant in the world. -
Korean War
The war between the Republic of Korea (Sour Korea) supported by the united nations and the democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). -
Color TV Introduced
On the first colored TV CBS broadcast was the very first program. The acceptance to color television was a slow invention. In the 1970s the American public finally started purchasing more color TV sets the black-and-white ones. -
Mr. Potato Head
Mr. Potato Head was mad in 1952 in New York by George Lerner. It was based on an earlier toy called "make a face" that was used with a real potato. Lerner made an all-plastic toy as a prize in the cereal box. Mr. Potato was also the very first toy advertised on television. -
DisneyLand
Disneyland officially opened to the public in 1955. It is located in Anaheim, California on what used to be a 160-acre orange orchard, which cost $17 million to build. -
Vietnam War
A cold war-ear military conflict that ovvurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. It lasted until April 30, 1975. -
OPEC
The organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries. Its an oil cartel whose mission is to coordinate the policies of the oil-producing countries. -
"Bay of Pigs"
Almost 1300 deportees armed with U.S. weapons, landed at the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the southern coast of Cuba. The invasion was stopped by Castro's army. -
Ayatollah Khomeini
Khomeini made a historical speech against the dependence of the Shah's regime on foreign powers, and its support of Isreal. He was immediately arrested, but his imprisonment inspired major public demonstrations of support, that were eventually crushed by the government troops in tanks. -
The Beatles become Popular in the U.S.
Beatlemania had overtaken Great Britain. The Beatles still had to get the United States under their arm. Even though they had one number-one hit in the U.S. and was greeted by over5,000 fans as they arrived in New York, it wasn’t until February 9, 1964 when they appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show that they knew that Beatlemania hit America. -
First Super Bowl
In the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California the very first super bowl was held. The National Football League (NFL) Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football League (AFL) Kansas City Chiefs by the score of 35-10 that night. -
First Wal*Mart Opens
Wal*Mart was funded by Sam Walton; an American multinational retail corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. It’s the world’s third largest public corporation. The headquarters is in Bentonville, Arkansas. -
Sesame Street First Airs
Sesame Street was a preschool educational television program was conceived in 1966. It had first aired in 1969. In 2012 it reached it 43rd season. Sesame Street has reflected changing attitudes to developmental psychology, early childhood education and cultural diversity. The producer was Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Corporation vice president Lloyd Morrisett -
Watergate Scandal
A political scandal that occurred in the U.S. break-in at the Democratic National Committee heardquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvements. -
1972 Olympics'/Munich Massacre
Officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event. It was held in Munich, West Germany. it was overshadowed by the Munich massacre in which eleven Israeli athletes and coaches, a West German police officer, and five Black September militants were killed. On September 5, the militants and their hostages that were transferred to the military airport of Fursetenfeldbruck. All of the Israeli hostages were killed. -
Camp David Accords
The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem. It followed thirteen days of secret negotiations of Camp David. -
Iran Hostage Situation
The Iran Hostage Situation is a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the U.S. 52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days. After a groups of Islamic students and militants supporting the Iranian Revolution took the American Embassy in Tehran over. -
Mad Cow Disease hits Britain
After Great Britain began destroying 3.7 million cattle because of the mad cow disease. The mad cow also called BSE or bovine spongiform encephalopathy; it’s a fatal cattle disease that causes sponge like holes in the brain. Scientist believed that animals had gotten this disease by eating feed containing brains, spinal cords or central nervous system tissues of other infected animals. -
Assassination Attempt on U.S. President Reagan
John Hinckley Jr. opened fire on U.S. president Ronald Reagan, outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. Around 2:25 p.m. President Ronal Reagan had only walked 30 feet from the hotel door to his awaiting car. Out of a .22-caliber revolver six shots were fired. Reagan did not realize that he had been shot at first; it wasn’t until he had started coughing up blood when Parr noticed he might be seriously hurt. He spent 12 days in the hospital. Hinckley was quickly taken into custody. In 1982 he was fou -
New Plague Identified as AIDS
AIDS was first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in ’81. AIDS has caused nearly 30 million deaths (as of 2009). -
E.T. Movie Released
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was about a 10-year-old boy Elliott who befriended a little, lost alien. The children attempted to help E.T. make a device that he could “phone home” and hopefully become rescued from the planet he was accidentally left upon. -
Michael Jackson Releases Thriller
November 30, 1982: Thriller explores lots of genres to those off his other album Off the Wall including pop, R&B, rock, post-disco, funk, and adult contemporary music. The recording took place at Westlake Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. The budget costs were $750,000. There were between 51 and 65 million copies worldwide. -
Perestroika and Glasnost
Perestroika: Restructuring. Glasnost: openness. Mikhail Gorbackhev's watchwords for the renovation of the societ body politic and society that he pursued as general secretary of the Communist part from 1985 until 1991. -
Tiananmen Square Massacre
Also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese. Student-led popular protest in Beijing in the spring of 1989 that received broad support from city residents. Deep splits within China's political leadership but were forcibly suppressed by hardline leaders who ordered the military to enforce martial law in the country's capital. -
Nafta
Also known as North American Free Trade Agreement that was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States creating a trilateral trade block in North America. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
Timothy McVeigh had driven a truck that had a home-made bomb up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The bomb had exploded at 9:02 a.m., the building was destroyed and 168 people were left dead. -
Princess Diana Dies in Car Crash
Diana, Princess of Wales past away after being involved in a car accident. She had been riding in a Mercedes-Benz with her significant other (Dodi Al Fayed), Bodyguard (Trevor Rees-Jones), and chauffer (Henri Paul) when the car crashed. The car had crashed into a pillar in the tunnel under the Pont De l’Alma Bridge in Paris while trying to flee paparazzi. Dodi and Henri were pronounced dead at the scene and Diana and Trevor were taken to the hospital. She suffered major injuries including her he
