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The GI Bill
The GI Bill gave funds for college, home loans and other various benefits to veterans that returned home from WWII, but they are still available for our veterans today. After WWII men wanted to go back to college. Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to give them what they needed. He passed the GI Bill, but the Bill didn’t do everything for them. It allowed mostly education and home owner benefits. For young men it was college. For older men it was a house to settle down in. -
Federal Highway Act
Federal Highway Act: In 1956, The Federal Highway Act allowed the government to build highways throughout America. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was concerned about the nation’s highway problem. When he became president only about 6,500 miles of highway had been built, and still there was much more to go. January 7, 1954 President Eisenhower said that he was turning his full attention towards the highway problems. Between 1954 and 1956 the bill to build highways was declined several times. -
Polio Vaccine
Polio Vaccine: Polio, full name poliomelytis, is a disease that withers your limbs down to almost nothing, paralyzing you. It’s most commom for infants than teenagers and adults. A doctor named Jonas Edward Salk invented the cure for polio with the help of his fellow students at University of Pittsburg School of Medicine in 1952. The results were outstanding. The government then allowed the vaccine to go public. When this happened parents went crazy and started getting their children vaccinated. -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik was the first man-made craft sent into space October 4th, 1957 by the USSR. It orbited Earth for about 98 minutes. Around 85 minutes it started to “die” in space. -
Sputnik 2
America was caught off guard, so after Sputnik 1 was launched Explorer 1 was launched by the United States January 31st, 1958. But before that on November 3rd, 1957, Sputnik 2 was sent into space carrying more than just added artificial materials. A female husky named Laika was picked right up off the street and trained to go into space.She died a few hours after the launch and was never brought back, for Sputnik 2 burnt up in the atmosphere April 1st, 1958. -
NASA
NASA: "An Act to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for other purposes.” The program started October first, 1958 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. NASA was created for purely national defense against the Soviet Union in the Cold War after WWII. America began to race with the Soviet Union around 1958. The goal was to have a satellite that will orbit Earth. Unfortunately for us, the Soviet Union beat us to it. -
JFK
John Fitzgerald Kennedy/JFK was the United States 35th president. When he was running for office Richard Milhous Nixon was his opponent. They had a close race, but in the end JFK was the winner. He was the youngest president to be elected and the youngest to die. When JFK was in his motorcade driving through Dallas, Texas, he was shot two times, out of the three, and killed. A few hours after his death they placed the vice president into office. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This was the closest call that America has ever had. It could have been the end of the world, for the Cuban Missile Crisis almost led us into a full blown nuclear war. Before JFK’s death in 1962, an American spy-plane captured a photo of nuclear war missiles being built in Cuba. Kennedy spoke about this crisis on television and said that it had to be dealt with. So Kennedy sent many naval ships to surround Cuba. It was soon resolved. -
LBJ
The 36th president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson. He was JFK’s vice president, but after Kennedy’s death he was put into office. Even though America loved JFK they despised LBJ. LBJ put three astronauts into space that orbited the moon. When they came down, he congratulated them by saying, “You've taken ... all of us, all over the world, into a new era.” LBJ, when he went out of office, wanted peace. But LBJ died of a heart attack at his Texas ranch on January 22, 1973. -
Malcolm X
He wanted blacks to be violent towards the whites during the Civil Rights Movement; Malcolm thought that if the whites were beating and killing the blacks for protesting then they should get the same treatment regardless of what Martin Luther King Jr. believed, (who wanted non-violent change.) Malcolm X was killed during a speech by Muslims for leaving his violent ways and the Nation of Islam to become more like Martin Luther Jr. Malcolm’s main goal was to win freedom and rights for all blacks. -
Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong was called for duty. Laika may have been the first animal in space, but America was determined to get something of more importance into space, or more specifically someone. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” Everyone knows this famous quote and its event. -
Kent State Shooting
Ohio national guards shoot and killed 4 college students after a strike -
Abortion.
Supreme court legalizes abortion/ -
Nixon Resigns
Nixcon resigns from the presdentanicy before being impeached. -
The First Test Tube Baby
The first test tube baby was made in Great Britain. Her name was Louise Joy Brown. -
Jonestown Massacre
Mr. Jones had all the people drink poisioned punch, They all took it willing. -
Bombing in Beirut
A terrible suicide bombing that took place in Lebanon. -
A.I.D.S
There was an AIDs epicdemect. -
"Crack Baby" Coccian
All the babies born in the 1980's were mainly crack babies. -
Sally Ride
Sally Ride was the first first women in space. -
John Lennon killed
Mark David Chapman killed lennon on December 8 of 1980. -
Desert Storm
A conflict between Iraq and a coalition force from thirty-five nations, authorized by the the United Nations and led primarily by the U.S. in order to liberate Kuwait. Marked the begging of Saddam Hussein. Deaths = 148 : Casualties = 760 -
O.J. Simpson Case
A widely-viewed police chase occurs as police attempt to track down a possible suspect for the brutal murders of two people. To this day, no one has been convicted of the crime, but strong clues point to the ex-football player O.J. Simpson. Deaths = 2 : Casualties = 0 -
The Unabomber
Highly intelligent Ted Kaczynski sends homemade bombs to several universities, airlines, and other targets from the late 1970s until he is eventually caught in 1996. Deaths = 3 : Casualties = 23 -
Flight 800
An airplane explodes in mid-air near the vicinity of New York, killing everyone aboard. Deaths = 230 : Casualties = 0 -
Heaven's Gate
Thirty-nine people commit suicide believing they would be sent up to a spaceship behind a passing Hale Bopp comet. It was one of the saddest, but strangest events to ever occur. Deaths = 39 : Casualties = 0 -
Olympic Park Bombing
Eric Rudolph bombs a nearby park during the Olympics in Atlanta, two abortion clinics, and a gay bar in protest against aspects that went against the Bible. He later led the F.B.I. on a five year chase through a North Carolina forest. Deaths = 2 : Casualties = 111 -
The Columbine Massacre
Two angry high school students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, kill eleven students and one teacher and injure twenty-four by bombs and bullets before turning their guns on themselves. Their motive behind the incident was to show the world how they felt. -
George W. Bush Election
George W. Bush, son of the former President, and Vice President Al Gore hold a virtual dead-heat for the presidency, with a disputed vote in Florida holding off the naming of the winner of the President Election until the Supreme Court of the United States voted in favor of Bush on December 12. This ruling gave Florida to the Bush camp by a 527 vote majority, and a victory in the Electoral College, 271-266. despite gaining less popular votes than Gore. -
Montgomery Ward
Montgomery Ward, the retail giant since its founding one hundred and twenty-eight years before, announces its intention to cease bussiness and close its retail locations. Competition from newer, low-cost retail behemoths such as Wal-Mart, an annual defict , and the changing personal budget dynamics of its customers lead to its demise. -
The Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency admits that the imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction was not present before the 2003 Iraq war began. -
President George W. Bush Reelected
President George W. Bush wins reelection over Democratic Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts. He wins 50.7% of the popular vote and 286 votes in the Electoral College.
