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Joe McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was the Senator from Wisconsin in 1953, 57 state department employees who were communist. No one could ever prove his claim and people were fired and other were afraid to defend accused workers because they might have got fired. There were communist in the Army which wasn't normal but McCarthy was eventually censured and lost power for being the Senator. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson was born in Georgia he eventually moved and went to high school in California he went to ULCA and was lettered in four sports which were baseball, track, basketball, and football. After that he was the first African American player in major league baseball in 1947 and he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers him and his family received many killing threats since he played on the baseball team. He was the world series champ in 1947 he eventually died from diabetes in 1972. -
Korean War
Korean War was a long lasting war with North Korea and South Korea. They all fought over where they were going to be and how the 38th parallel was gonna be divided also the U.S showed it was ready to go to war to stop the communism. South Korea was democratic and supported by the U.S and North Korea was communist and supported by the USSR. North Korea were the ones to start the war they invaded South Korea first but after awhile the United Nation forces sent in under command of Douglas MacAuthur -
Vietnam War
Vietnam War was located near South China Sea and was 1,000 miles long. France ruled Vietnam before it became a country the two leaders were Ho Chi Minh and Ngo Dinh Diem the Vietcong sided with Communist. In 1968 more than 500,000 troops were sent to fight in the war they had two symbols one was a hawk and the other was the dove. The hawk means supporting the war and the dove did not support the war. This was painful for the U.S because 1,614 U.S citizens are still missing. -
Berlin Wall
August 13 of 1961 the communist government of German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this wall was to keep Western fascists from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state. The Berlin wall was standing till November 9, 1989 when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. -
JFK Assassination
John Kennedy is Irish and he is Roman Catholic and has 7 siblings and he served in WWII. In 1960 John ran against Richard Nixon only Catholics could run as presidents then but they passed laws to help millions in poverty many programs did not get passed. On Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas John was in a open car and a gun shot went through his head and died at 2:00p.m. The Vice President shot Lyndon Johnson shot the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald in the stomach on live t.v JFK. -
Kent State Massacre
On May 4, 1970 at Ohio School students were protesting after Nixon's pledge to send troops to Cambodia. Police came and started bayoneting and clubbing the students and 28 National Guardsmen fired 61 bullets into the crowd of students because they were throwing pebbles at them. Only 4 students were killed and 9 were wounded but 25 students and professors were found guilty for protesting and throwing rocks. National Guards were NOT blamed for the massacre. -
Bill Clinton
In the year of 1992 Bill Clinton was our president he was a democrat and he was in the politics of the governor of Arkansas. The biggest event he was welcomed to and that he joined was the lowered deficit he had the health care reform and he also sent 20,000 troops to Bosnia to help out with wars but not all of them that got sent had to fight people. He is different compared to all of the other presidents but some things about him was that he liked Mango ice cream and he played that saxophone. -
Social Network Revolution
The very first social network was called Geocities which came out in 1994 then a few years after that another social cite came out and that was called Aol which was an instant messenger started in 1997 allowing people to talk through the computer. As the years kept passing more and more social cites came out and they were Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Linkeldin, Youtube, and Pinterest. There will be more and more as years pass and more connections to other people. -
George W. Bush
In the years of 2000 and 2008 George W. Bush was our president he was in the party of Republican. He was welcomed into being part of the politics of governor of Texas and the biggest impact on him that probably tore him apart was September 11, 2001. Some other events that he was in was he was in the tax relief and he was in the group called No Children Left Behind it was a group for education. When he was in the seat of president he took off 900 days or more of his term more then any president. -
War in Iraq/Afghanistan
In October 2001 and March 2003 Iraq and Afghanistan had a war. George W. Bush and Tony Blair were apart of these wars this was was very important because the possibility of Iraq employing weapons for the mass destruction was high. Some of this war was to protect oil reserves and to make the world safe from terrorists for example, the terrorists of September 11,2001. After, there was no evidence of weapons for mass destruction but it cost $4-6 million. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. Elvis Presley became very humble and he was one of the biggest names in Rock N' Roll by the mid-1950s he appeared on the radio television on the Ed Sullivan Show. Elvis had 94 gold singles, 40 gold albums, and starred 33 films. He had one of the biggest influences on pop culture and Rock N´ Roll some of his songs were Love Me Tender and Hound Dog. He died on August 16, 1977 of heart failure most flowers sold on his death day.
