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TV Age
People watched the president speak in public and the news on what was happening. When TVs started getting more popular younger people started to watch more people that played music and more of the up beat things. Lots of the younger people watched Elvis while the older people sat in disgrace. -
United Nations
The Republic of China, France, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and the United States were all in the United nations. They were an international organization that committed to maintaining international peace and security. The helped developing friendly relations among nations promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. -
Truman Doctraine
Greece and Turkey could fall victim to subversion without support from friendly nations, Truman asked Congress to authorize $400-million in emergency assistance. To justify this course, the U.S. must assist free peoples to work out their destinies in their own way. The key to preventing the overthrow of free nations was to attack the conditions that nurtured totalitarianism. -
Marshall Plan
Secretary George C. Marshall proposed the extension of massive economic assistance to the devastated nations of Europe. Secretary of State left out that the plan would be open to the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe. Congress responded to Marshall’s proposal by authorizing the European Recovery Program. Their was an investment of about $13 billion in Europe during the next few years resulted in the extraordinarily rapid and durable reconstruction of a democratic Western Europe. -
Brown vs Board
The United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas and allowed for people to have public facilities but keeping them separate, including public schools in the United States. Declaring that separate educational facilities are not eaquil, the Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state-sponsored segregation, and provided a spark to the American civil rights movement. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The U.S. and the Soviet Union were in a tense, 13-day political/military standoff.The Soviet had nuclear missiles on Cuba 90 miles from U.S. shores. John Kennedy's decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba to make it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary. People feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war but the disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Nikita Khrushchev’s offer to remove the Cuban missiles and for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. -
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Medicare and Medicaid
Medicaid is a federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources. It also offers benefits not normally covered by Medicare, like nursing home care and personal care services. It only pays after Medicare, employer group health plans, and or Medicare Supplement Insurance have paid. Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease. -
Gerald Ford
Took office following the resignation of President Richard Nixon. He became the first unelected president in the nation’s history. A longtime Republican congressman from Michigan that had been appointed vice president less than a year earlier by President Nixon. -
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Ronald Reagan
Former actor and California governor served as the 40th U.S. President Ronald Reagan. He cut taxes, increased defense spending, negotiated a nuclear arms reduction agreement with the Soviets and is credited with helping to bring a quicker end to the Cold War. Reagan, who survived a 1981 assassination attempt, died at age 93 after battling Alzheimer’s disease. -
Space shuttle challenger
US. shuttle orbiter Challenger broke up 73 secs. after liftoff. Making a horrible end to the spacecraft’s 10th mission. The disaster took the lives of all seven astronauts aboard, including Christa McAuliffe. A teacher from New Hampshire who had been selected to join the mission to teach class from space to children around the US. Later determined that two rubber O-rings which had been created to separate the sections of the rocket, had failed due to the cold temp. on the morning of the launch. -
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George Herbert Walker Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush, served as the 41st U.S. president and was a two-term U.S. vice president under Ronald Reagan, from 1981 to 1989. He was a World War II naval aviator and Texas oil industry executive, began his political career in the U.S. House of Representatives. He held a variety of government posts, including CIA director. In office, he launched successful military operations against Panama and Iraq. -
Financial Crisis 2008
The world economy faced its 2nd most dangerous crisis. Home prices went down in the US. Then the auto industry prices went down. More banks, trusting no one to pay them back, simply stopped making the loans. Most businesses need to regulate their cash flows. Which they cannot do business. Prices fell throughout the world, Dow Jones Industrial Average in the U.S. lost 33.8% of its value. By the end of the year, Germany, Japan, and China were locked in recession. As were many smaller countries.