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G.I. Bill
The G.I. Bill was created to help veterans of World War II but it is still around today. It established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools. This was establish in the year 1944. -
Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The name the Iron Curtain came from the idea that it should feel like there is a physical barrier there that nobody could cross. Winston Churchill gave "The Iron Curtain Speech" -
Fair Deal
The Fair Deal was an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address. More generally the term characterizes the entire domestic agenda of the Truman administration, from 1945 to 1953. -
Trinity test
The Trinity Test was the code name for the first detonation of an atomic bomb that was conducted early in the morning on July 17, 1945. It was also the first detonation of any nuclear weapon and was a smaller part the the whole Manhattan Plan. The site of the test got the name Jornada del Muerto which means "the journey of the dead man. The sit was actually in Los Alamos, New Mexico. -
Marshal Plan
The Marshall Plan was an American plan to help Western Europe, the united states gave over $13 billion to help assist their economy and to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. The Soviets response to Marshalls speech was silence but Minister Molotov did agree to meet with Britain and France to discuss the european reaction to the offer. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy that's stated purpose was to counter Soviet expansion during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain threats to Greece and Turkey. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley was an american rock n' roll artist in the mid to late 1950's that overall transformed music during that time. Presley was born in Memphis Tennessee. He was the most popular artist and is still very popular and very know today because of his affect on the music industry. He was born on January 8, 1935 and he died on August 16, 1977 from a heart attack. -
Ike Turner
Ike turner was an American Musician and the leader of a band. He was also a sing and songwriter as well as a tallent scout, arranger, and a record producer. He was another rock n' role artist in the 50's that change the way of music during that time period. He was born on November 5, 1931 and died about 10 years ago in 2007. Over his life he had 5 wives and 6 children. -
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War II era. most of their work was published and popularized throughout the 1950s. Beatniks were people who did not believe in materialistic wealth. -
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was an American medice resercher and doctor who found the cure for polio. He was born in October of 1914 and then later died in June of 1995. He was hero to many people because of the vaccine he had created to cure and save millions of people. He was known as the leading and best scientist of the 19th century. -
Albert Sabin
Albert Sabin invented an oral version of the polio vaccine which made it much easier to give to people. This played a key role in the fight against polio. This vaccine almost completely got rid of the disease in the world. He was a medical researcher. He was born in 1906 but then later died in the year 1903. He worked very closely with Jonas salk -
Little Richard
Richard Penniman is know as the architect of rock n' roll because people say he is the one who made rock n' role what it is today. Pennimen got the nick name little richard and was born on December 5, 1932. He was the third of 12 children and is still alive today. He had a rough child hood because his father made a living selling moonshine and did not do much to hide his hate for his sons homosexuality. -
The counter Culture
The Counter Culture was mainly white middle class youths, called hippies. New Left, against Vietnam War, turned back on America because they believed in a society based on peace and love. rock'n'roll, colorful clothes, and the use of drugs, lived in large groups. They lived in San Francisco's Haight Ashbuy district becasue of the availbility of drugs -
Polio Vaccine
The first polio vaccine was the inactivated polio vaccine. It was developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955. The oral polio vaccine was developed by Albert Sabin and came into commercial use in 1961. The vaccine is still used very widely in todays world. Whenever it was invented it change the lives of many people. -
Emmit Till
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after he wistled at a white woman. And she said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store because of the color of his skin. He was brutally beaten and dumped in a river. He was found weeks later and could only be recogniized by a ring on his finger that his mother ha given him. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement. The bus boycott first started with rosa parks when she was arrested for not wanting to give up her seat. Everybody was boycotting the busses and the bus company eventually stopped the segregation of busses. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The result was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.This was under president Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Little Rock Nine
The 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. Prsident eisnhower called in troops to protect the students while going to class to show the people power and that this was going to happen. -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into a low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It had four external radio antennas to broadcast radio pulses so that they could see where it was. It completed around 1440 orbits around the earth. This was a big down fall for the united states because they had lost the first leg of the race to space. -
Bill Haley and the Comets
Bill Haley and the Commets were and american rock band that was founded in the year 1952 and ended in the year 1981 after the death of Bill Haley. They help transform music during that time. The badns most famous song was the song "rock around the clock". -
Hippies
Hippies believed in anti materalism, free use of drugs, they had a casual attitude toward sex and anti-conformity, practiced free love and took drugs such as lsd, they were mainly in San Francisco because of the low rent interracial, they lived in their own comunitties called crash pads they were part of the new counter culture, Protestors who influenced US involvement in Vietnam -
Malcom X
Malcolm X was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. He took a very different approach than Martin Luther King because he took a more violent approach. He died in 1965 from multiple gunshot wounds. -
OPEC
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a group consisting of 12 of the world's major oil exporting nations with the head of it located in Austria. OPEC was founded in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum policies of its members, and to provide member states with technical and economic aid that they needed. -
Peace Corps
The peace corps were a federal agency created by President Kennedy in 1961 to promote voluntary service by Americans in foreign countries, it provides labor power to help developing countries improve their infrastructire, health care, educational systems, and other aspects of their societies. This was supposed to be a part of President Kennedys new frontier. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States, in 1961 and subsequent years, in order to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia. The rides ended up in the busses being destroyed and burned by members of teh KKK -
The New Frontier
The New Frontier was a slogan used by President John F. Kennedy to show what his goals and policies for the country as if america was the frontier and he was trying to make a new and better america. John F. Kennedy's main goal for the united states was for everyone to have equal opportunity. He maintained this slogan threw out his presidency. -
John Glenn
Colonel John Glenn was the first man to orbit the entire earth and ended up circling it three time. He had many other successes at the same time as that. He was a pilot, an astronaut, an engineer, he was in the marine corps, and he was an american senator that came from the state of ohio. He orbited he earth in the year 1962. -
Ceasar Chavez
Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962. Him and dolores Huerta worked for civil rights for hispanics. Their peak influence was in the 1970's and ceasar chavez died in 1993. -
Kennedys speech at Rice University
President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at rice university on September 12, 1962. In this speech he talked about the goals for america in the race for space and the future. The famous line of his speech was "we choose to go to the moon" i think this is because he was show that america has the ability to go to the moon and that they will succeed. -
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald was an American Marxist and ex-Marine who assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. He was taken to prison but before he could get his sentence he was killed by a gunshot wound from Jack ruby. He had a wife and two kids -
Birmingham Bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963. This bombing killed four little girls by the names of Denise mCnair who was 11 years old, Carole Robertson who was 14 years old, Addie Collins and cynthia Wesley who were both also 14 years old. -
Jack Ruby
Jack Leon Ruby was the Dallas, Texas, nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody after being charged with assassinating U.S. President. He obviously did not like what Lee Harvey Oswald did and like John F. Kennedy so he took it upon himself to make him pay. -
Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater was an American politician, businessman, and author who was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in 1964. He lost the election of 1964 to Lyndon B. Johnson because of the daisy girl ad showing what it would be like for a nuclear bomb to be dropped. -
Daisy Girl ad
The daisy girl ad was a commercial shown to the public for Lyndon B Johnson's Campaign. It showed the horror of people that would be killed if an atomic bomb was dropped on the united states. This ad by itself possibly won the election for Lyndon B. Johnson. The commercial aired on television In September 7, 1964. It had also showed the power of tv in politics and its affect on the world. -
The Great Society
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. These were the main problems with america during that time because many people were discriminated against and they lived in poverty so President Lyndon B. Johnson came up with this solution to help Others -
Gulf Tonkin Incident
The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.In early August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam and in response they asked the U.S. to send more forces to Tonkin Bay.This led to Americas entry into the vietnam war. -
Anti War Movement
Protests against the Vietnam War took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The protests were part of a movement in opposition to the Vietnam War and took place mainly in the United States.The american protest was in the year 1963 against the vietnam war. The full anti war movement did not actually begin until two years later when President lyndon B. Johnson order massive sustained bombing in vietnam. -
Voting Rights act of 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a law passed at the time of the civil rights movement. It eliminated various devices, such as literacy tests, that had traditionally been used to restrict voting by black people.This enabled anybody and eveybody to be able to vote and stopped things that could stop many african americans from their right to vote. -
Bay of Pigs
The Bay of Pigs was Americas attempt to overthrow the newly establish communist government that was in cuba in the year 1969 under president John F.Kennedy. They trained cuban rebels to fight but they lost the fight due to the lack of support the rest of america gave them. This incident was an embarassment to the united states and eventually led to the rusult of the cuban missle crisis. -
Stonewall riot
The Stonewall riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall. They were fighting against discrimination against gays and used more of a violent tactic to get their point threw. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the last leg in the race for space against the soviet union. America had won the race to space against the Soviet Union because they had landed the first men on the moon. The first men on the moon were Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin. They land on the moon on July 17, 1969. -
Phyllis Shlafley
Phyllis Schlafley was a conservative female political activist. She stopped the ERA from being passed, she saw that it would hinder women more than it would help them. She was a constitutional lawyer and she was known for staunchly conservative social and political views,and antifeminism. -
Panama Canal
The United States built the Panama Canal to have a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa. It cost $400,000,000 to build. Columbians would not let Americans build the canal, but then with the assistance of the United States a Panamanian Revolution occurred. The new ruling people allowed the United States to build the canal.The panama canal was built in 1914. -
Sam Walton
Sam Walton was the founder of wal-mart and sam's club and he was bor in the year born 1918. In the 1960s he created a unique corporate culture with anti-union policies and beliefes. He came up with price slashing and extended trends that had long been underway.he was part of the rise of great corporations. He majorily embodied american dream -
Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during the early 1970s, following a break-in by five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. on June 17, 1972, and it was under President Richard Nixon's administration's. Eventually Nixon got caught and was forced to resign as president. -
Title IX
Title ix of the Education Amendments was signed by President Nixon in June of 1972 to become a law. The main purpose of Title ix is to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in any education program or activity that is federally funded. Now woman were aloud to play any sport that men could and had to have the exact same amount of everything. -
EPA
A governmental organization signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1972 designed to regulate pollution, emissions, and other factors that negatively influence the natural environment. The creation of the it marked a newfound commitment by the federal government to actively combat environmental risks and was a significant triumph for the environmentalist movement. -
Endangered Species act
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 was signed on December 28, 1973, and provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend. -
The Heritage Foundation
The foundation says that the mission of The Heritage Foundation is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise such as limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. The foundation was started by three main leaders in the year 1973. -
Three Mile Island
In 1979 at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in USA a cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the #2 reactor. The TMI-2 reactor was destroyed. Some radioactive gas was released a couple of days after the accident, but not enough to cause any dose above background levels to local residents. This is known as the biggest nuclear meltdown in the united state. -
Staglfation
Stagflation is is major inflation of money in the economy combined with a high unemployment rate at the same time. This makes the economy stagnant because people dont have money to spend and it bring the flow of money to a stop and the country can no meet its own needs. -
Robert Johnson
Robert Leroy Johnson was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician. His landmark recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians. He was very famous and change the course of music at that time but then later on in the 80's he became once again very popular. -
Ronald Reagan
Reagan was the first elected president in 1980 and he was elected again in 1980, he ran on a campaign based on the common man and populist ideas he promised to cut out welfare and many works programs. Ronald Reagan's campaign slogan in 1980 was "lets make america great again." The day of the election when Reagan won iran released the hostages. -
Election of 1980
Republicans nominated Ronald Reagan against renominated Jimmy Carter who nobody at the time not even his own Democrats liked. Reagan won easily and was very popular, Carter won only six states and the District of Columbia which put the Republicans back in control for the first time in 25 years. Carter was defeated with dignity and was well meaning but had a lack of managerial skills. -
Jimmy Carter
He was a peanut farmer from georgia who gained a reputation as a social moderate and fiscally conservative.He was very religious and he won the election of 1976. Many people did not like some of the things he did as president so he gained a bad reputation. Ronald reagan the won the election easily and jimmy carter only won four states. His campaign slogan was "A leader for a Change." -
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor was the first female elected to be a supreme court justice. She was appointed in 1981 by Ronald Reagan and was a supreme court justice until the year 2006 in which she retired. -
Aids Epedemic
The aids crisis was diagnosed in US in 1981 but did not receive much attention because it was perceived as a gay mans disease Some people said these gay men were getting what they deserve. over 32,000 died in a 7 yr period and gained attention once straight people started to frequently get the disease. -
Reagaonmics
Reaganomics is the federal economic polices of the Reagan administration which was elected in 1981. These policies combined a monetarist fiscal policy, supply-side tax cuts, and domestic budget cutting. Their goal was to reduce the size of the federal government and stimulate economic growth. -
The reagan doctrine
The reagan doctrine was United States support anywhere in the world to support anticommunist activity in Afghanistan we supplied missiles; Grenada gave money and military help to military governments in El Salvador where spent over 6 billion in aid to help kill over 40,000 dissidents, American missionaries and others. Their goal in this was to end the cold war. -
Challenger Explosion
The explosion of the challenger Space Shuttle exploded in January 1986 while their were 7 astronauts austronauts on board. The explosion killed everyone on board including Sharon Christa McAuliffe who was a mother and school teacher. The explosion happened because it was a very oddly cold morning in florida at 28 degrees. A tube inside of the external gas tank froze up ultimatly making the tank explode. -
Don't ask Don't tell
The dont ask dont tell policy was the policy in the US military for homosexuals who served. No one would ask your sexuality but if you were outwardly homosexual and engaging in homosexual activities you would be discharged from the military in the 1990's. -
balkins crisis
The Balkins Crisis was Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, and Croats were killing each other by 10,000s eventually Clinton was forced to get involved, this led to US leading NATO forces which launched a massive aerial bombardment of Serbia in the 1990's. The results of the crisis ended up with multiple treaties being passed. -
Persian Gulf War 1
The first persian gulf war began after Iraq invaded Kuwait and the US invaded Iraq to liberate Kuwait but Iraq set Kuwait's oil fields on fire so the Americans couldn't gain the oil this conflict caused the US to set military bases in Saudi Arabia its other name is Operation Desert Storm. With in 100 hours the united states pushed iraq out of kuwait. This was also the first war that cruise missiles were used. -
Rodney King Incident
Rodney King was an african american taxi driver that became famous when video footage was taken of the police beating him after a 115-mph chase throughout LA ended with him allegedly lunging at one of the officers. He received 56 blows from nightsticks while a dozen other officers stood by and watched.This helped spark a fight against police brutality. -
NAFTA
The north american free trade agreement was a Trade agreement that included Mexico, Canada, and the United States. It was a symbol of the increased reality of a globalized market place. That means it made north american a free trade zone from one country to another. The flow of goods increased and ultimantely made a better economy for north america. -
Election of 1992
The United States presidential election of 1992 was the 52nd presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated Republican President George H. W. Bush who later became president, He also beat Ross Perot of Texas, and a number of minor candidates. -
world trade center attack
the world trade center was a community where buying and selling goods is the main work but 1993 terrorists drove a truck bomb underneath The world trade center and detonated it. The parking garage was destroyed but the buildings stood up until th attack on 9/11 -
Contract With America
The contract With America was a contract signed in the 1994 congressional elections. Congressman Newt Gingrich had Republican candidates sign a document that made them pledged their support for certain things as a balanced budget amendment term limits for members of Congress and a middle-class tax cut. -
Lewinski Affair
Monica Lewinski had affair with President Bill Clinton who denied that he had the affair under oath but there was physical evidence and he was impeached for perjury but did not get kicked out of office and his resulting political battles kept him from being productive in his final term which was paving way for the seemingly George Bush Bush in 2000 -
Defense Marriage Act
The Defense of Marriage act was passed by Congress in 1996 but only defined marriage as between a man and women but later on however many states and companies extended benefits to same sex partners and many states legalized same sex marriages. The act protects same sex marriage and different sex marriage. -
Election of 2000
This election was between Albert Gore and George W. Bush. There were many problems with counting votes. Many Democrats and Republicans counted for revote in some states because they were so close. There was a problem in Florida which led there to be a court meeting at the Supreme Court. The supreme court said that George w. Bush had won the election but it gave Bush kind of a shadow over his presidency like he had actually lost and his win was not legit. -
No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was a U.S. Act of Congress that reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act it included Title I provisions applying to disadvantaged students. This act made sure that students with disadvantages still eventually caught up with other students so that they do not get left behind in education. This was done under President George W. Bush -
Patriot Act
The patriot act was put in place after September 11, congress passed a security legislation in order to make the country safer. The Patriot Act gives the authorities enhanced powers, such as looking up library records, to protect the country. People in the government are enabled to listen in on calls and read personal information to make sure that their is not threat to the united states security. -
9/11
On 9/11, 2001 four planes were used as missiles and took down the symbol of US financial power which is the World Trade Center Towers. This is the deadliest attack on US soil it leads to far reaching changes in American life. Almost 3,000 people were killed and around 6,000 others were hurt badly. One plane went into on building another into the other building of the world trade center and one into the pentagon then a plane going to what is believed the white house was taken down by passengers. -
War on Terror
The war on terror was initiated by President George W. Bush after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the broadly defined war on terror aimed to weed out terrorist operatives and their supporters throughout the world In hope to stop terrorists attacks or at least slow them down. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a category five hurricane that went through and destroyed most of Louisiana. The Hurricane Killed almost 2,000 people. The damages were worth around 125 billion dollars which tied the most costly tropical hurricane on the planet. The hurricane dumped about 15 inches of rain in a very short period of time. Towns were flooded and peoples homes ere destroyed. -
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III is an American politician who served as the senior United States Senator from Arizona since 1987. He was the Republican nominee for President of the United States in the 2008 election, which he lost to Barack Obama. -
Election of 2008
The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.This was a big victory for Barrack Obama because h became the first African American President of the united states and Joe Biden became the first Roman Catholic Vice President. He beat John McCain in the election. -
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Maria Sotomayor is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. She has the distinction of being its first justice of Hispanic descent and the first Female Hispanic. she was appointed by Barrack Obama in 2009 -
The Great Recession
The Great Recession is a term that represents the sharp decline in economic activity during the late 2000s and early 2010's, which is generally considered the largest downturn since the Great Depression.
