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The GI bill
Though passed in 1944 by congress, the GI bill sent 8 million WW2 veterans to school, backed home loans, gave a year of unemployment benefits and provided medical care. -
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Roosevelt's death
President Roosevelt died on April 12th, 1945 from polio. -
First African american in baseball
Jackie Robinson became the first black player in the major leagues in 1947, signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
Army–McCarthy hearings
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed frighteningly real to many people in the United States. McCarthy led an aggressive anticommunist campaign of his own that made him a powerful and feared figure in American politics. His reign of terror came to an end in 1954, when the news media revealed his unethical tactics and he was censured by his colleagues in Congress. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Segregation in US schools deemed unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.The Brown vs. Board Education decision -
The Vietnam War begins
The Vietnam War is believed that it started around the simple belief held by America that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia. -
Cuban missile crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy (1917-63) notified Americans about the presence of the missiles. (ended October 28, 1962) -
John F. Kennedy assassination
The nation suffered tragedy when President John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) was assassinated in November 1963. For many this event signified the end of innocence in American national consciousness. -
MLK assassination
On April 4, 1968, civil rights leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on his hotel room’s balcony. -
The fair housing act
This act prevented housing discrimination based on race, sex, national origin and religion. It was also the last legislation enacted during the civil rights era. (was a part of the equal rights movement) -
Birth control legalized in Canada
Birth control pills was illegal in Canada until 1969, when a Trudeau government bill that also legalized "therapeutic" abortions and homosexual acts between consenting adults was passed by Parliament. The whole notion of a medication that could prevent pregnancy caused a furor. -
Woodstock Music Festival
Woodstock was a product of a partnership between John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang. Their idea was to make enough money from the event to build a recording studio near the arty New York town of Woodstock. When they couldn’t find an appropriate venue in the town itself, the promoters decided to hold the festival on a 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York
