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McCarthyism
Joeseph McCarthy was paranoid with communist. McCarthy did what was similar to a "witch hunt" with the comunist. Blacklisting celebrities and anyone he could call a communist. -
Willie Sutton
He stole an estimated $2 million. He spent more than half of his life in prison but was able to escape three separate times. On March 3rd 1950 Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC. -
The Korean War
Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The United States, acting under the auspices of the United Nations, quickly sprang to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years.Over 55,000 American troops were killed in the conflict. Korea was the first “limited war,” one in which the U.S. aim was not the complete and total defeat of the enemy, but rather the “limited” goal of protecting South Korea. -
Harry Truman
33rd State president, he succeeded as US President on the death of FDR; made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan. -
Brown Vs. Board of Education, 1954
This helped stop the segregation in the school because African Americans had minority schools as whites where inferior. This put the Constitution on the side of racial equality and galvanized the nascent civil rights movement into a full revolution. -
Ezzard Charles
Defeated numerous Hall of Fame fighters in three different weight classes. He retired with a record of 93 wins, 25 losses and 1 draw. -
Vietnam War
The North Veitnamese and Veit Cong where trying to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. In 1960's the war escalated with the Uinted States. -
Emmett Till's Murder
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, when he reportedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat him and shot him in the head. They where tried for murder, but an all-white, male jury acquitted them. -
Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement started with Rosa Parks. This movement gave African Americans the goal to end segregation and discrimination. -
Elvis Presley
Helped establish the emerging Rock and Roll sound, incorporating blues and gospel influences. Later became a movie star and a live concert artist. One of the most influential and best selling recording artists of the 20th century. -
The "Little Rock Nine"
A white mob gathered in front of the school. With the help of police escorts, the students successfully entered the school through a side entrance. Fearing escalating mob violence, however, the students were rushed home soon afterward. -
The Space Race
The space race was Russia and the U.S fighting to be the first Continent to be in space. Russia was the 1st. Oct. 4 - USSR launches Sputnik 1. Nov. 3 - USSR launches Sputnik 2 which carried a small dog named Laika into orbit.
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War Protest
Several hundred Berkeley students protest the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in San Francisco. The police turn on high-pressure fire hoses and blast the crowd down the marble steps. Officers arrest 64 people, including 31 Berkeley students, but instead of discouraging the protest, the confrontation becomes a call to arms. -
The Falling of Berlin Wall
The Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall dividing east and west of Berlin. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they wanted. -
George Wallace
George Wallace is inaugurated as the governor of Alabama, promising his followers, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” His speech was written by the Klu Klux Klan. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mr. King was a peaceful civil rights leader, he was one of the most loved and hated men of all time. He was involved with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and more until his untimely death in 1968. -
Assasination of JFK
John F. Kennedy was assasinated while being the U.S 35th persident. He served from January 1962 to November 1963. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
Malcolm X
African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and '60s.On the evening of February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, where Malcolm X was about to deliver a speech, three gunmen rushed the stage and shot him 15 times at point blank range. Malcolm X was pronounced dead on arrival at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital shortly thereafter. -
Hippie Culture
They favoured long hair and casual, often unconventional, dress, sometimes in “psychedelic” colours. Many males grew beards, and both men and women wore sandals and beads. Long, flowing granny dresses were popular with women, and rimless granny glasses with both men and women. Hippies commonly took up communal or cooperative living arrangements, and they often adopted vegetarian diets based on unprocessed foods and practiced holistic medicine. -
Assasination of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy was a U.S Senator that was shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California presidential primary. After all his cheering Kennedy was shot several times by a 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. He died a day later. -
Woodstock, 1969
Woodstock was a music festival, it was billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at a dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969. -
Richard Nixon/ Watergate Scandal
President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, had been caught while attempting to wiretap phones and steal secret documents. He took steps to cover it up afterwards, his role in the Watergate conspiracy had finally come to light, the president resigned. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Next Johnson urged the Nation "to build a great society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor." In 1964, Johnson won the Presidency with 61 percent of the vote and had the widest popular margin in American history--more than 15,000,000 votes. -
personal Computer Created
The personal computer was sealed in a neat plastic case, it had a keyboard, video unit and used removable floppy discs. Above all, it only cost £2400 in today’s money. The success of Apple II established Apple Computers as the main player in the field of personal computers. By 1980, there were 1 million personal computers in the world. -
Disco Music / Culture
The rise of Disco in the 1970s had an enormous cultural impact on the American audience. The economic prosperity and countercultural exuberance of the 1960s had faded. By the mid-1970s, crime rates soared and the combined “Misery Index” of unemployment and inflation reached new highs.
With that as the backdrop, the lure of Disco proved particularly powerful for working-class youth. -
Jimmy Carter/ Iran Hostage Crisis
An angry mob of young Islamic revolutionaries overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 Americans hostage.The hostage crisis was the most dramatic in a series of problems facing Americans at home and abroad in the last year of the Carter presidency. -
Pacman Arcade Game Cane Out
An arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. It was licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway and released in October 1980.Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games. -
John Lennon's Murder
John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism.As Lennon passed by, he glanced briefly at Chapman, appearing to recognise him from earlier. Seconds later, Chapman took aim directly at the center of Lennon's back and fired five hollow-point bullets at him from a Charter Arms .38 Special revolver in rapid succession from a range of about nine or ten feet (about 3 m) away -
Ronald Reagan/ Reaganomics
President Ronald Reagan unveils a new tax program, calling it "a second American Revolution for hope and opportunity." Upon taking office, Reagan called for a phased 30% tax cut, but Congress would only agree to a 25% cut. This sparked a deep recession in 1981 and 1982. -
Assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan
John Hinckley, Jr.shoots President Ronald Reagan outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C. just after the president had addressed the Building and Construction Workers Union of the AFL-CIO. Hinckley’s first shot hit press secretary James Brady and other shots wounded a police officer and a Secret Service agent. The final shot hit Reagan’s limo and then ricocheted into the President’s chest. -
HIV/AIDS
At the beginning of the 1980s various reports began to emerge in California and New York of a small number of men who had been diagnosed with rare forms of cancer and/or pneumonia. It was documented as 5 young gay men who had serious PCP, cytomegalovirus, and disseminated candida infections. -
Charles Manson
Leader of the "Manson Family", a quasi-commune that arose in the California desert, in the late-1960s, which committed several murders, the most famous of whom was Sharon Tate. -
The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
In 1985, French secret service agents planted two bombs and the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, sinking the vessel and killing Portugal-born Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira.The Rainbow Warrior was in Auckland, New Zealand preparing to sail to Mururoa Atoll to continue protesting against French nuclear testing in the Pacific.
The French government initially denied all knowledge of the operation, but it soon became obvious that they were involved. -
Depletion of the Ozone Layer
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer was designed to reduce the production and consumption of ozone depletion. The original Montreal Protocol was agreed on 16 September 1987 and entered into force on 1 January 1989. -
Internet Created
The first network of computers involved just 4 machines collectively called Arpanet. This took place in 1969 and was funded by America’s Defence Department’s Research Projects Agency. By 1971, Arpanet had increased in size to 23 computers. Its original usage had been for people to be able to work on a project using a computer but away from their place of work. However, it soon became clear that one of the main features of Arpanet was its use for electronic mail. -
Nelson Mandela's Release
Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African segregation is released from prison after 27 years. In 1961, he was arrested for treason, and although acquitted he was arrested again in 1962 for illegally leaving the country. Convicted and sentenced to five years at Robben Island Prison, he was put on trial again in 1964 on charges of sabotage. -
Art Thieves
Art thieves steal 12 works of art from the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston. A pair of thieves disguised as Boston police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and roamed the Museum’s galleries, stealing thirteen works of art. -
Edward Scissorshands
Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American romantic dark fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. The film shows the story of an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation who has scissors for hands. Edward is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter Kim. -
Cold War
The Cold War lasted about 45 years. There were no direct military campaigns between the two main antagonists, the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet billions of dollars and millions of lives were lost in the fight. -
Whitney Houston
Houston, one of the best-selling music artists ever, first came to prominence as a teen model then moved into singing full time when she signed a record in 1883. Her debut album 'Whitney Houston' was released in 1985 and in 1986 was the No. 1 selling album.
