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The Korean War
The Korean war was a war between the Northern and Southern part of Korea. It had all started when the communist North had invaded South Korea. The south was getting heavily attacked. The U.N. and U.S. responded because South Korea was their friend. Then the North had to fall back because the two countries were too much for them. China had secretly sent and army to help the north korean and both of them went back to war. In 1953 a treaty was established and the North and South were divided. -
Video 3: Forgotten War
The forgotten war otherwise known as the korean war. This war wasnt publicily popular like the others. This war was about communists and non communists. At the end of it korea was split into. South Korea which is succesful. And North Korea that isnt so much.
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Assassination attempt on President Harry S. Truman
On November 1, 1950 the POTUS was almost assassinated. Luckly the attack had failed and the criminals were apprehend. The two men were Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola. This was because the United States of America was treating Puerto Rican's unfairly by using people as test subjects. Harry Truman was unharmed and relieved because the assassination attempt was stopped. At the end both of them died. -
Japanese Peace Treaty signed in San Fransisco
The San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed by 48 Nations on the date of September 8, 1951. This treaty was signed to end World War 2 and to end Japanese war crimes.This treaty also shows the relationship between the United States of America and Japan today. India, Burma and Yugoslavia were invited but they did not come. They had signed a separate peace treaty later. From the 51 countries that had signed 3 did not sign the Czech Republic Russia and Poland did not sign. A security treaty was signed -
Cuban Revolution
The revolution had started in 1952. This happened because Batista had overthrown the president and cancelled all voting. Fidel wouldn't go without a fight so he didn't let this happen. He had attacked and failed many times but still didn't give up. They fled so they could devolp new fighting tecniques. In 1959 he won and declared himself president for life. -
Death of Rosenbergs
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were just a New York couple until they committed a very tantalizing crime. They were the first people to commit espionage in the United States of America. Espionage means to give away military or political secrets. The Rosenberg's were going to give away the formula of an atomic bomb to the Soviets. They had gained the information from Ethel's brother David Greenglass who had been working on projects that have to do with nuclear weapons. This was not okay to some. -
Mackinac Bridge
The Mackinac Bridge is the 3 largest suspension bridge on the planet today. A year before the construction of the bridge David Steinman was used as a designer. 44,000,000 dollars were used to supply as materials and it had cost more than 55,000,000 to make the bridge itself. It took three and a half years to make the entire bridge and 5 people had died during the construction of the bridge.The Bridge was oped to the public on November 5 1957. The Mackinac bridge has a yearly celebration. -
Vietnam War
On July 20th 1954 the Vietnam War started.The war began after the rise of Ho Chi Minh. He was the leader of North Vietnam, fighting South Vietnam and the United States. More than 3 million people were sadly killed during the Vietnam War. More than half were Vietnamese civilians. And 58,000 Americans. More than 500,000 U.S. military members served in the Vietnam war. The Vietnam war ended in 1975. -
Disneyland Opens
When they were little, Walt Disney would take his two young daughters, Diane and Sharon, to play at Griffith Park in Los Angeles every Sunday. While his daughters enjoyed their rides, Disney sat on park benches with the other people who had nothing to do but watch. It was on these Sunday events that Walt Disney began to dream of an activity park that had things for both children and parents to do.At first, Disney envisioned an 8-acre park and then it happened. -
Video 4: Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was about bringing communism to everyone. The Vietcongs would fight the americans in order to accomplish this. The North Vietnam wanted it and in the end they got it. We had lost the the war. Although we had the help of the south vietnam,
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a movement against the segregation laws of Alabama. Blacks had to give up their seats to the white people on the bus and were treated like that mostly everywhere else. The Boycott had all started because a women named Rosa Parks was told to give up her seat to a white man. Rosa had refused and she was arrested and was charged. Rosa had gotten the help of many other people especially the help of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Boycott had gone on for a year. -
"In God We Trust"
In 1956 the moto In God We Trust was made. Its on every piece of US currency right now. It appeared that the first such appeal came in a letter dated November 13, 1861. Then in 1956 it appeared on ever dollar and coin. Its iconic and everyone knows it now. Its on the back of US currency. -
Sputnik 1 launched into Space
Sputnik 1 was a satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union. This was the first satellite that was launched into space in the world. Sputnik was sent into space to orbit and used radio waves to scan the atmosphere. America was starting to get jealous because of this so they had also sent machines into outer space. This had marked the era of the space age. We had learned much from the space age because we had the budget and we also had the technology -
Explorer 1 is launched into Space
Explorer 1 was the first satellite that was sent into outer space by the Americans. Explore 1 was launched into space by Juno 1 was the machine that was sent into outer space. Its mission was to find radiation waves in the earths atmosphere. It would make about 30 orbits per day and it only weighs 30.8 pounds. It uses dust,heat,and radiation detectors on its mission. It had came back to earth with a successful mission done and more satellites were later launched by the U.S. -
X-15 Makes First Flight
The X-15 was a hyper-sonic space aircraft that was used for research by the United States of America. The X-15 still holds the world record of fastest manned aircraft ever flown. It had gone up 37,550 feet up in the air and had gone at a maximum speed of 552 mph on its first flight. Flight duration and speed of the X-15 had gone up over time. The time of its first flight duration was 4 min and 56.6 seconds. Neil Armstrong had even manned the X-15 for USAF and NASA. -
The Beatles
In 1960 the band that will never be forgotten was formed. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The band had produced many popular songs like Hey Jude and Elornor Rigby. There music was the best of there time and was very popular. Even after they split up people are still listening to them. The band had great times and had many hits. -
John F. Kennedy Elected for President
John F Kennedy is elected for president and is almost beaten by Richard Nixon. Kennedy was the youngest president in office and also the first Catholic. During his time of president he also stopped The Soviet Union from attacking the U.S. with Nuclear weapons. Kennedy had also help build NASA into a huge enterprise and introduced the idea of idealism to the youth of America. He was only in office for 36 months and he was a courageous man and he always believed in the truth and in justice. -
The Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed attempt by the U.S. to overthrow the Cuban leader Fidel Castro. The U.S. had trained about 1400 Cuban hostiles so they can attack Fidel Castro. On April 17, 1961 armed Cuban Exiles went to the Bay of Pigs with U.S. weapons. The U.s was going to lose most of the fight because there were to many Cuban troops to handle alone. Air Support was needed but President Kennedy had denied it. 2 days later the U.S. had lost the battle. Kennedy was embarrassed. -
Cuban Missle Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major event in history that almost caused a nuclear war. The Soviets were less superior than the U.S army but they had decided to put missiles in Cuba. Fidel approved the Soviets Plan because he was afraid the U.S. might attack again. The U.S. had later found out about the missiles and decided to send some military forces to Cuba to check to see no missiles were launched. Kennedy the president at the time later told everyone. Luckly nothing happened and it ended. -
Video 5: Cuban Missle Crisis
On this day the soviets and cubans had teamed up. Once JFK knew they had bombs we were put on defcon 2. Nuclear war was close. Luckily JFK had made an agreement with them to stop this. This couldve went very wrong. But after that the cubans were seprated from the world.
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Event 2: I have a dream
This video is about MLK. This is when segragation was a big problem. It go's to show how one step can lead to something so big. MLK decided to do something and peacefully. He marched along with thousands of others. He gave his i have a dream speech and millions were touched and started a new movement.
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I have a dream
It was on this day that MLK gave his most popular speech. This was a speech for rights. At the time african americans were being treated unfairly and being killed. MLK knew this had to stop and he took a stand. He marched for miles on end in a peaceful manner. Thousands had joined him. -
President Assassination
President John F Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy was shot with a sniperrifle while in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. He was rushed to Parkland Hospital but he had died there when the surgeons were trying to keep him alive. Oswald was a former marine and a soviet defector and was arrested for killing the president and a police officer.Oswald had killed him alone and without the help of anybody. Jack Ruby had killed Oswald and was also charged for murder. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights act was influenced by Martin Luther Kings march on Washington. The Belief of segregation became weak after his speech was heard. President John F. Kennedy was told to end segregation in 1964 and everyone would live freely among each other This will allow them to be able to have basic rights such as going to stores ,schools etc. When John F. Kennedy gave his Civil Rights Speech this was mentioned. The Civil Rights Freedom Papers were signed by Lyndon B. Johnson because of Kennedy -
Malcolm X assassinated
Malcolm X was murdered on the Audubon Ballroom stage by men with firearms. Malcolm X was disturbed when a man said something inappropriate in the audience. His bodyguards rushed to quiet the small scene mad. A man in the front row seat took out a sawed off double-barreled shotgun and shot him once in the chest. Some other men took out semi-automatic pistols and shot him multiple times in the chest. Malcolm X was rushed to the hospital and was announced dead with 30 bullets in his chest. -
Bloody Sunday
State troopers violently attacked peaceful demonstrators led by Martin Luther King, Jr. As they try to cross the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. Fifty marchers are hospitalized on "Bloody Sunday," after police use tear gas, whips, and clubs against them. The march is considered the catalyst for pushing through the voting rights act five months later. This helped add a law which didnt let anyone be subjected to torture or to cruel. And inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. -
Watts Riot
The Watts Riot was a huge riot in the Watts Neighborhood. There were a total of 34 deaths, 1032 injuries, 3438 arrests and around 40,000,000 dollars in property damage. This indecent had started when a man named Marquette Frye who is a 21 year old African-American man who was driving while intoxicated. The police came with backup to arrest him. His mother and father refused his arrest so they had been arrested along with Frye. This had made crowds go against the polices work and people. -
Miranda Rights Created
The Miranda Rights is to protect the suspect’s Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer selfincriminating questions. The Miranda rights came from the British Magna Carta. The document were promises between the Kings. He would govern England according to the customs of the feudal law. Magna Carta was made by the Byron to stop a King from abusing his power with the people of England Suffering. The Magna Carta was applied to the Miranda Rights. -
Gemini 8
Neil Armstrong aboard with others were in the gemini 8. In this mission they had to dock it to another space craft. The mission took 10 hours total. They succsessfully docked the vehicle into another. In the end they luckily made it back home without a problem. -
First Super Bowl
The First Superbowl was held at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles California. The teams that had played were the Kansas City Chiefs and the Green bay Packers. The Packers had ended up winning by 20 points. The scores were 15-35. 61,946 people had attended the Superbowl. The Halftime Show was a bunch of collage bands vocalists. 58.18 people had watched the Superbowl on their television. Many more Superbowl's happened every year after the first one. -
Death of Dr. King
Martin Luther King Jr. had gone to Memphis, Tennessee so he can help the sanitation workers who had not been getting their full wadges. They usually get paid a fraction of what the white people get. King had later went to a church to justify what he wanted to do with this unfairness. He had later booked a room at the Lorraine Motel. He had went on the balcony and was talking to Jesse James. He was later shot in the jaw and chest. He went to the St. Josephs Hospital and was announced dead at 7:05 -
Video One Space
This video is about Neil Armstrong in space. This is when he took the first step on the moon. He also gave his famous speech. One small step for man and one giant leap for man kind. It still hasnt been forgitten. And it will live on.
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Seasme Street is Made
Sesame Street was introduced to television. This show was created by Joan Cooney. He aimed to educated younger people with fun characters. Guest stars appear on each show to keep it interesting. Around 8 million americans watch Sesame Street. It was a huge success. The show is still made today. -
Beatles Break Up
The iconic boy band the Beatles broke up. They were formed in 1960 and have been a huge success. But sadly everything has to end. On this date John Lennon had publicly announced that they were breaking up. Many music lovers were saddend deeply but took it well. A couple decades later many were sadly informed when a member had died. -
The Bhola Cyclone
The Bhola Cyclone was the worst cyclone of the year 1970. The Cyclone had gone to India West Bengal and Pakistan. The Winds of the cyclone had gone up to 115 mph and caused around 5000,000 deaths. The damage of the storm was worth 84 million dollars in USD.The Bhola Cyclone has the Equivalent force and power of a category 3 hurricane. This was not the worst cyclone to hit these countries. After the storm had passed there was much construction to take care of the damage that the storm had done.
