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air conditioning
the 1st air conditioning system was designed in 1902 by inventor willis carrier the first air conditioner were too bulky window a/c units didnt come about until the late 1950's the general public often first encountered air conditioning in movie theaters by 1980 most of the u.s. population had home air conditioning americans have taken to mechanical cooling avidly and greatly in the 1940's and 1950's air conditioning increased employee work output by 24% -
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birth of rock broll
the 1940's-50's was a time when rock and roll became very popular within the young society rock and roll was a mixture of the blues, jazz, gospel, and country western overall it introduced new music and dancing of twisting and thrusting, that the older society was shocked by in the 1960's the british invasion took place, being british artist took over the music industry -
2nd great migration
who?
6 million african americans
from/to
from;south eastern states
to;north, midwest, west(california)
push factors-unsatisfactory economic oppertunities-harsh segragationist laws
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g.i. bill
the g.i. bill, offically the service men's re-adjustment act of 1944, provided many benefits to veterans of world war ii. it established veteran's hospitals, provided for vacational rehabilitation made law interest mortgages available, and granted stipends covering tuition attending college or trade schools and living expenses for homes it still being used till this any -
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cold war
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pollo vaccine by dr.jonas sain
in 1955, it was announced that the pollo vaccine ended safe and a nationwide inoculation campaign began salk conducted the first human trials on former pollo patients and on himself and his family and by 1953 2 million american school children were giving the new pollo vaccine in cases dropped under 6 thousand in 1957 the first year after vaccine was widly available -
creation of nasa
on july 29th of 1958, president dwight D. Eisenhower signs an act that creates the national aeronautics and space administration (nasa). he called the signing a [sic] historic step, further equipping the united states for leadership in the space age. -
moon speech
on may 25, 1961, pres kennedy announced they were sending an american safley to the moon kennedy felt great pressure to have the u.s. "catch up to and overtake" the soviet union in the space race . four years after the sputnik shock of 1957. yuri gagarin had became the first human in space in apri 12, 1961, greatly embarrassing for the u.s. -
friendship 7
nasa astronaut john glenn became the first american to orbit the earth in his mercury capsole friendship 7, gleen's accomplishment brought a sense of pride and relief to americans and instantly made the 31 year old glenn a national hero. -
apollo 11
on july 1969 american astronauts neil armstrong and edwin buzz aldrin became the first people to land on the moon and about six and half hours later neil armstrong became the first person to ever walk on the moo, the apollo 11 mission occured 8 years after years later announced that the national goal o landing a man on the moon by the end of 1960's.