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G. I. Bill
The G.I. Bill was a bill signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was the first law that benefited the return of the World War 2 veterans. This was a a huge help because it established hospitals and granted opportunities for the veterans to get back into a normal life. This law was passed on June 22, 1944, and was still used during the 50's. -
Iron Curtain
Describes closure to western ideas and it creates physical barriers across Eastern Europe. Barricades of concrete and barbed wire to seal off East from the West. -
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine started by President Harry S. Truman was made to stop the spread of communist during the Cold War. Then they will start supplying other countries that have had threats, with some help. -
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Cold War
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Marshall Plan
A European Recovery Program, support to rebuild western European communities after the WWII. This helped many families around Europe by organizing and helping the environment for better. It was a successful opportunity that help grow the economy.
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Second Red Scare
Threatened the spread of communist was coming to the United States this was now well known as the Red scare. Red was introduced as "reds" from the Soviet flag. As the Cold War started they feared communist and they decided to keep Americans away from communist. -
Fair Deal
The fair deal created by the 33th President Harry S. Truman. This was a deal created to help American get health insurance, even thought they rejected citizens were still able to get minimum wag,. there where many programs to help the economy and help citizens The fair deal was announced January 5th 1949 on the papers. -
TV shows
TB shows started to accumulate when the TV started to increase in selling.Shows were well known in the 1950's because they were around for a very long time. There wasn't many channels but families got entertained very well, it created a mass media all over and their was no stopping. Many shows became famous, just like I love Lucy or Father Knows best that were around for 6-7 years, and then we have a show like Gunsmoke that was around for 20 years. -
Rock 'n' Roll
This era where one of the craziest ever. Rock 'n' Roll was shown in the late 40's and early 50's , this was one of the most moving times in the 50's. Many big artist were actually developed during this time, like Elvis P. Many teenagers were were moving to the beat you saw the generation moving along. During this era movies included Rock 'n' Roll and the images of young adults moving along. Also many parents didn't approve of kids listening to Rock because they thought it was the devil's music. -
Television
Television started booming during the 1950's everybody spend their time sitting on the relaxing couch and watching their favorite movie. Television was a great way of entertainment everybody had one because everybody used it. Families started to gather up more in late afternoons, also shows started to expand, more and more shows would get hundreds of views because that is what families would only do. It was very significant for television to start being noticed because now we good channels. -
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy was a person that masqueraded people that he believed were communist. This could be said to be a good thing and a bad thing because it helped catch many communist but then again many citizens lost their jobs because they were falsely accused. His accusations were so harsh that a lot of people were scared of him. -
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1950's
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Duck & Cover
This was a term used during the Cold War by mostly teachers telling students/kids to duck and cover. This was a preventing used method in school so that kids wouldn't get hurt during a nuclear explosion. (Protection against anything). This was useful during this time era especially because nuclear explosions could been very common. -
Ike Turner
Ike Turner was a African American Rock 'n' Roll musician in the 1950's, his dedication was extraordinary, started playing the piano when he was at a young age. His first song "Rocket 88" sparked a new tone and the rhythm of blues that nobody expected. -
Little Richard
The development of Rock 'n' Roll were exploding with millions of fans screaming for the artist that created the most fascinated songs ever. Little Richard was an African American icon during the 1950's creating his first break on the radio in 1951. His song Tutti-Frutti was one of the first to to instantly put in the Billboard hits. -
Hydrogen Bomb
The Hydrogen was a turn over tested during the Cold War era. This was developed and later President Harry S. Truman decided to continue the development of the bomb. The first launch of the bomb was a test and was focused to beat the Russians in the creation of the bomb.
The first bomb was tested on the Enewetak and was predicted land in the atoll/island in the Pacific Ocean. (Nov 1st was the first bomb launched) -
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Civil Rights
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Domino Theory
Term used by the 34th President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The domino theory is exactly as it sounds, if one falls down they all fall down as well with them. This was under the communist era where if one country performed or where for communist they will all fall under communist even if they weren't. This was used in the Southeast Part of Asia. -
Brown v. Board of Education
This case was an important one during the civil rights movement. This case decided that public schools were now open to whites and blacks (equal). Public schools were segregated back then this case helped dissolved that issue. Education was important to many but why wasn't it allowed for many? This case opened many peoples eyes. -
Polio Vaccine
Doctor Jonas Edward Salk creator of the Polio vaccine, was a medical researcher and worked with medicine. This vaccine was to protect citizens, it was a disease that caused problem in the throat. This disease got attached to children the most and around 3,200 people died and many other were left with disabilities. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was beaten and killed after being falsely accused of "coming after a white women" at age 14. Emmett was kid that was thrown in a lake for flirting with a women, is that so bad? This sparked the civil rights in my opinion because his mom let the whole world see what was done to his son, you couldn't even recognize the poor child because he was that bad tortured, and now they want to say it was all false? -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
In December 5th 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for siting where she wasn't allowed in the bus, because she needed to give up her seat for a white person. This sparked the Africans during this time and they decided to boycott the buses and started to walk instead. Africans were the main ones riding the buses anyways so what happened if there was nobody anymore, buses would decrease right? Well they did there was nobody riding the buses so they decided to desegregate later. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis was an icon during the 50's, he was a Rock 'n' Roll artist that made his life into fame. One reason why everybody loved him was because of his good looks and great dance moves, many parents didn't like the way he moved because they thought it was wrong for their teenagers to see that he was bring into the world. Elvis was an actor as well, movies like "Flaming Star and King Creole were very well known. -
Eisenhower Interstate System
A highway system that came with a lot of advantages. One of them being an easier way for evacuation just in case of a problematic situation, and an easier way to get from city to city. Also with the invention of the system the military had a great mobilization structure. -
Albert Sabin
Albert Sabin was a medical researcher in the early 1940's. His approach in the 1950's were that he helped the vaccine of Polio that was created by Doctor Salk, one things that needed to changed was the creation of it. Sabin agreed with the vaccine but that didn't prevent for the Polio from infecting other with it, so Satin needed to do something about it. So he created the "Live vaccine." -
Space Race
The Unites States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics wanting to create an new generation of science. They also wanted to develop better technology and a change for the economic system. -
Feminism
During the 1960's women wanted equal rights, they wanted the same pay and they focused on regulating the workplace as same at they did with men. Feminism became a movement because women started politically wanting less discrimination towards them. Most women wanted to be seen as more then women in the house, they wanted to work and share the same as men. -
Sit-Ins Movement
There was a bunch of Sit-Ins accidents that happened and one of the most tragic ones was the one that happened in North Carolina. Four black students when up to a store and set on the counter where only whites can sit and they refused to move. Whites came in a tortured the students and they still wouldn't move, they waited until they were served. The kids were sent to jail afterwards. After this the civil rights sit-ins was then born after this. -
Chicano Mural Movement
Culture was everything for Mexican-Americans and we needed to teach everybody about it. Artist began to draw these pictures on walls and buildings to show whites/Americans about our culture. This movement started to be developed because Mexican-Americans were seen as minorities and they didn't approve of that, so they started to show these images and develop the culture on being a Mexican. -
Counterculture
The counterculture era was the when the normal things that young adult needed to do where now not done. Many youngster were negatively not obeying with the normal values parents had for them. Behaviors and attitudes where messed up and where changed. -
Hippies
Hippies were a very common thing you would see in the 1960's they were also a members of the counterculture movement that was said to be the mores that young adults were not following. Hippies were grouped and lived life low and free, they really never cared about anything but their own. -
LSD
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide was an acid drug know for the realistic images that you see when using this drug. This drug was used in the 1960's by hippies/counterculture, it caused effect to be oversee, many young adults were attracted by this drug because it caused them freedom and was a problem fixer. -
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1960's
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Freedom Riders
These were civil rights activist who rode the bus into the South and spread the word of the Civil rights Movement There was an incident that happened that left a bus with burning flames around it. This bus was in flames, burned by whites and it created the bad vision of many around. The freedom riders who beat up and wounded by the KKK. -
The Peace Corps
The Peace Corps was founded my our 35th President John F. Kennedy. This was the act of volunteering, to other countries and helping them and supporting them by connecting with them. President had inspired students to work in poorly countries. There was many project that accumulated after this peace corps. -
Cesar Chavez
Chavez was a Mexican-American civil rights leader who worked labor. Chavez was the founder of National Farm Workers Associations along with Dolores Huerta. They both were some strong activist that were fighting for the equality of labor workers. Chavez was well known for his contribute to the right of protecting the rights of those who work hard in labor. his methods were non-violent but they were strong. (United Farm Workers) -
Assassination of John K. Kennedy
John F Kennedy was our 35th President of the Unites States. He served from January 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963 due to his assassination in Dallas, Texas. -
Lee Harvey Oswald
Oswald was a Unites States marine who was the one who Assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Oswald shot Kennedy as he went thought the Dealey Plaza in Dallas Texas. -
Anti-War Movement
In the 1960's many people opposed the Vietnam war and many were sent to it. My opposing people started protesting against it because their loved ones were being sent, rich kids were safe but the others weren't, this movement alarmed many U.S citizens and also the government. This movement also was to strengthened throughout the years with intensive growth later in the years. -
Daisy Girl Ad
In this ad you see a little girl counting the petals of a daisy flower one by one. Then you see her eye zoomed in and a nuclear bomb is blown up and you hear them saying things like "if you want to protect your child, even if it means nuclear bombs then so be it." Many parents feared this because they didn't want nuclear bombs anymore but they were useful. This ad was to insure that commanders should have the right to nuclear bombs. At the end you see "vote for president Johnson." -
Great Society
This was a term used by our 36th President Lyndon B. Johnson to remove the poverty and to protect racial injustice. He created programs like Medicare or Medicaid and the Older Americans Act and Federal education funding that we actually still have today. -
Selma March
A long walk of 54-miles of African Americans were protesting from Selma Alabama to Montgomery The march was to demonstrate that the African Americans were serious about the right to vote. African Americans didn't have the right to vote at this time and they wanted it, they protested for the right to and some were beat up and wrongly cussed at, but this sparked and it ended up sending the right view. Later they had was is called the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Black Panther Party
Black panther party was actually a different approach from the Civil Rights Movement because throughout the Civil Right there was no violence involved from the black, but the Panther Party was a self-defense act that let blacks actually use violence towards others that got in their way. The purpose of this party was to protect African Americans from police brutality mainly. -
Stonewall Riot
in the Stonewall Riot was a violent riot made my the gay community for acceptance. In New York many people accumulated for the acceptance of gays, gays were faced with discrimination and only few accepted them. Gays were considered to be not an act of humanity. -
Stagflation
In the 1970's stagflation occurred changing the economy. In the Recession of 1974 was a period of the economy going down, In 1973 the post World War 2 had ended making 1974 much harder for the citizens especially because unemployment rise and there was much high inflation, the worse part was that it occurred slow. -
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Equal Rights Amendment
On March 22, 1972 the Equal Rights Amendment was passed making it not right/illegal to discriminating anybody based on their sex. So in other words no matter if are a female or a male you should be be not allowed to not do anything you want. This protects your rights as citizens based on sex discrimination. EQUAL RIGHT FOR EVERYONE. !. -
Phyllis Schlafly
She was a lawyer well know for her feminism attributes in the society. She was for abortion and loved the contribute and help women to be better. She was also well known for her campaign in the Equal Rights Amendment movement (Stop ERA). -
Title IX
Title IX was a law that was passed and it allowed anybody be apart of the education program. When I say anybody I mean anybody was allowed to join. If a women wanted to she could of if a gay wanted to he/she could of. NO DISCRIMINATION was allowed and nobody was left behind because he/she was different, everybody was allowed the benefits of educational programs. -
Roe v. Wade
This was a case that determine the right of abortion. Many people thought that abortion was right because it was the decision of the women, but also many people didn't approve of that because it was not right to kill a life. The decision of this case was that is was right to let women abort but before the trimester (3 months) not after it. They will be no problems with the state if this happened but if a women decided to get an abortion after trimester they will be consequences. -
Heritage Foundation
The heritage foundation was made to promote conservative policies it included things like free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional values and strong national defense, which were good concepts that the foundation needed. -
Endangered Species Act
The endangered species act was signed by President Nixon.This was an act that was passed to protect the species and carry them on. Another reason for this act was to prevent extinction and recover animal protection against others. The act protect wildlife and ocean sea creatures. -
Panama Canal
The United States still controlled the Panama Canal. In President Carter presidency he decided to sign a treaty with Panama to get it removed because he really didn't know why they had it, he promised to give Panama total control. Important ships and subs couldn't even fit in the canal so there was no point on keeping it. -
Camp David Accords
Signed in front to President Carter the Egypt President and the Israel Minister were allowing twelve days of Camp David. Was was the reason for this? Well these frameworks as they were called were used to keep Egypt and Israel at peace, this later came the birth f the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. -
Three-Mile Island
This was a meltdown incident occurred in March 28th. The three-mile island was an accident that was significant to the power plant history it leaked radiation. A nuclear reactor was set up near a town. nobody was hurt but it did fear most of the citizens living in the town. -
Rap Music
Rap music started to evolve during the 80's, every teenager heard it and it began to boom. MTV being well known started to add music from all over, different music. Rap music was one of the most famous music you will heard all over the television and radio, it was different than anything else, it send different culture attributes to everyone, everywhere. -
Robert Johnson
Johnson was the first African American billionaire who founded BET channel. He was an entrepreneur who studied at Princeton University and found Black Entertainment Television with his wife in 1979 he then sold his channel in 2001 and became a billionaire. -
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1980's
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Election of 1980
In the election of 1980 the people running were Jimmy Carter and Roland Reagan. Ronald Reagan ended up winning that election. The election was held on November 4 1980, Ronald Reagan was in Republican Party & Jimmy Carter was in Democratic Party. -
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was out 40th President of the Unites States Before he became our president he was the Governor of California and was an actor as well. Everybody viewed him as a great leader for serving his country against Jimmy Carter. Reagan was a great actor and started to show up in television a lot, after that he moving to California changed him making it better and more comfortable to run for governor. -
A.I.D.S.
AIDS were introduced in the 80's where five gay men where infected with it. People started thinking it was because they were gay but then later some found out that it was because they injected themselves with drugs, that caused the same thing. At the end of 1981 there were reports with almost many gay men had died from AIDS/PCP. Later in the years there was reports where women started getting AIDS and were dying. -
Reagan Doctrine
In Reagan Doctrine started in 1981 during Reagan's presidency and ended in 1991 after the end of the Cold War. The reason for this policy was to end the cold war, and it was successful. Reagan was to support the anti-communist guerrillas till everything went smoothly, the end of communist was another thing Reagan put up the Doctrine. -
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra was the first female in the court justice system, she served her time by her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan til she retired in 2006. She started to serve in Arizona until she was leader state then later her carrier ran up and she was nominated for Court Senate. -
Space Shuttle Programs
The space programs started to evolve. The first space shuttle was launched in Colombia. Everybody focused in these amazing things that were invented, making it extraordinary and breath taking for most people. It was surprising for most people that things like these actually did work, also in the 1980's people started to change the ways of the shuttles making them more safe to work with. -
Music Television
Music television otherwise known as MTV. MTV spread the culture and made music be heard all over. When someone heard different tunes and rhythms they had to have to from the music channel, entertainment wasn't a problem anymore in the 80's because every TV had the music channel. MTV not only had music though it also came in with reality TV shows and movies that everybody enjoyed. Everything began because of the Music Television channel generation grew and grew with the live of MTV. -
Iran Contra Affair
During this issue, it was also the second term of President Reagan's term. Senior administration were secretly selling arms to Iran, which was subjected to be the arms embargo. What was worse about this was that people still supported the contra's. Planes actually crashed reveling the weapons. -
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1990's
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Oprah Winfrey
Entertainment as a big hit in the 90's. Oprah was a well known entertainment TV artist, who owned her own talk show, and it was really well known. Now she owns the whole channel and she is a millionaire who works for her self. -
Rodney King Incident
Rodney King was an African American who got beat up by The Los Angeles Police Department. A witness video tapped everything and set it to a news station where the news station showed it to the whole world. it became very popular around the internet because that is when police brutality was very well known. (Whites towards Blacks). This was viewed as a racial hit. -
The Internet
The internet explored during the 90's. Every family had internet in their home, it was popular because it brought entertainment to Americans, there was about 6 million uses in 1994 and people started to need it more in later years. College campuses had internet as well for students to use for data. Computer started to sell more because of the Internet too, because it was the only one that could have used it. -
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton served as our 42th president of the Unites States, he was also a governor of Arkansas. He was accused of having sexual relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Clinton denied, after the proof and coming out positive, he had to explain to hims people why he had lied about not having relationships with Lewinsky. He opened up the healthcare reformation which helped many of our citizens. -
World Trade Center Attack
Terrorist exploded a bomb in a garage in the World Trade Center.This bomb was expected to blow up the whole building but actually it left 6-7 stores not even touched. The bomb was left in a car and was expected to blow people up that were close it it, and hoped to collapse the whole building down. This incident was forgotten quick. -
Healthcare Reform
Bill Clinton wants to make healthcare a life time supply for everyone. He gives this task to his wife, the first lady, Hillary Clinton. The healthcare was to protect the citizens with a valid health care system that will allow them to be continue being safe. -
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy
Bill Clinton put out this policy allowing gays into the military, but there was a catch. If the military didn't know you were gay, then that was fine, so don't tell and we won't find out. The old policy didn't allow gays, so if gays wanted to join, just don't tell them that you were gay and there shouldn't be any problems -
Cell Phones
In the 90's people started rejecting landlines, and they started to use cell phones. The good things about cell phones was that they could have been carried anywhere they wanted to. People were excited about these technology cases that were affordable to anybody. They were cheap because they didn't have much on them, not like we have today. -
Lionel Sosa
Lionel Sosa was an campaign and ad organizer, who organized famous campaigns for important events. Lionel started to design many logos when he was in the marines, and he was very good at it, that he decided to open up his own graphic design studio, where he created many logos. he is very known for his John Tower campaign that it helped him get many views. Sosa helps get well known people votes from the Hispanics. -
Defense of Marriage Act
The defense of marriage act was a huge step in the 90's it made many gays furious with the change and decision of this act. In this act the were said to to allowing only men and women to get married and they said to let state refuse the same sex marriage. In prior to being ruled unconstitutional. -
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John McCain
McCain promised a whole lot, he promised to get our of a Iraq issues and promises to end the Bush tax bits as well. He runs against George w. Bush in the election of 2000. He is now serving a senor Unites States senator in Arizona. -
Election of 2000
The election of 2000 was George W. Bush as a Republican and Al Gore as a Democratic. In this election President Bush won becoming our 43th president of the United States. Al Gore wanted to save the new government for the Social Security issues and George Bush wanted to have ownership of the society. -
9/11 Attack
In September 11 2001 the world changed forever. Planes started to attack the Twin Towers in New York and everything was destroyed. People didn't know what to do, everybody was all over the place, and about 3,000 people died in the attack and 6,000 people were injured. President Bush was surprised about the attack that he, himself did not know what to do. -
Patriot Act
This was put in after the 9/11 attack, this was provided to be used and promote the appropriate tools required to obstruct terrorism attacks. The expands of governments law enforcement powers were over the top, making it hard to pass thought security in the Unites States. -
No Child Left Behind Education Act
Created by President Gearge W. Bush.This act was passed so that that kids around the world would be able to get education, they should not be no kids left behind in education, every child should be able to get the education they needed. This required to test students in grades 3 and up, in reading and math. -
Hurricane Katrina
Katrina being such a beautiful name left Louisianan looking like a disaster. In 2005 Katrina hit the Gulf Coast hitting not just Louisiana but also Mississippi and Alabama making them look unrealistic. Many people lost their homes and some lost family member due to flooding, homes, cars, businesses, stores were destroyed and there was no sign of them until they were rebuild. Many lost jobs and received help from the government to restore their belongings. -
Barack Obama
Obama well known as out 44th President of the Unites States. He is out first and the only African American president for now. He has contribute to the society in a very good way. He is known for his great charismatic and well behaved family with 0 difficulties. Many people loved him as a president because he was an amazing father and husband and everybody knew him. He ran against McCain in 2008 and against Romney in 2012. -
The Great Recession
During the election of 2008 the economy started to hall people started to compare it to the great depression because it was just as bad. The Recession started to empty out banks, and jobs started to decrease, prices of the homes were so low that it hurt the economy. Banks were needed to be bailed out because there was no money at all. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
This was passed to the response of the Great Recession in February 2009. The purpose of this act was to create new jobs for people around the Unites States and help those who were fired from their job, to get them back. The reason for this was to get people back into creating more jobs for those who needed them, and because they needed the money. -
Sonia Sotomayor
Sotomayor was the first Hispanic justice judge serving her time since 2009. She was the first Latina also in her family to peruse to being a lawyer. She also in the third female in the justice system that has ever been served. She graduated from Princeton and knew exactly was she was doing after the University.
