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Book burning in Nazi Germany
"Book burning" refers to the ritual destruction by fire of books or other written materials. Usually carried out in a public context, the burning of books represents an element of censorship and usually proceeds from a cultural, religious, or political opposition to the materials in question. -
The Cold War
The Cold War, often dated from 1947 to 1991, was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc, dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the Eastern Bloc, dominated by the Soviet Union along with the Warsaw Pact. This began after the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. -
Rise of Suburbia/ Levittown, PA
Racial fears, affordable housing, and the desire to leave decaying cities were all factors that prompted many white Americans to flee to SUBURBIA. And no individual promoted suburban growth more than WILLIAM LEVITT. -
Blacklisting in the entertainment industry
The blacklist developed in the fall of 1947 after the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, held public hearings to investigate the influence of Communists in the motion picture industry. Some of the people the committee called to testify became friendly witnesses and told HUAC the names of other people who they believed to have Communist connections. -
Loyalty Oath Controversy at University of California
The Chinese civil war ends with victory for the Chinese Communists. In American politics, accusations of "who lost China" will become a major factor in foreign policy and anti-communist debates. -
Comic book bans in the 1950s
The creative onomatopoetic description of being punched, blowing something up or magically disappearing from sight were not the only draw of comic books for kids in the 1930s and 1940s. In this era before television, comic books were the most popular medium for entertaining kids who came enthralled by the exploits of a new breed of protagonist: the superhero. -
Korean War
The Korean War 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. -
The McCarthy Hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Brown vs. Board of Education, 1951
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Developments and incidents involving the atomic bomb
The Soviet November-class attack submarine K-8 sank during salvage with 52 sailors onboard after suffering fires in two compartments simultaneously. Both reactors were shut down. The crew attempted to hook a tow line to an Eastern Bloc merchant vessel, but ultimately failed. -
The Hiss Affair
Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official. Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. -
Peace Treaty ending WWII
Under the terms of the Treaty, the Allies were allowed to keep troops in Berlin until the end of 1994. In accordance with the Treaty, occupying troops were withdrawn by that deadline. Germany remains however without the normal protection of the UN charter due to articles 53 and 107 in the charter which has not been amended since the end of the war. -
Development of new Technologies
The word technology refers to the making, modification, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems, and methods of organization, in order to solve a problem, improve a preexisting solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation or perform a specific function.