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McCarthyism
The actions of Senator Joseph McCarthy tarnished the relaxed attitude of the 1950s. His hunt for communists working in the U.S. showcased the paranoia and fear that gripped America. -
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards. -
First Color T.V. Aired
On June 25, 1951, CBS airs teh first commercial color T.V. program. It was called "Premeire" and it featured famous celebrities of the time who hosted their own shows. Two days later, "The World Is Yours" became the first regularly scheduled color T.V. series. -
Civil Rights Movment
Beginning with the Supreme Court's school integration ruling of 1954, the American legal system seemed sympathetic to African American demands that their Fourteenth Amendment civil rights be protected. Soon, a peaceful equality movement began under the unofficial leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A wave of marches, boycotts, sit-ins, and freedom rides swept the American South and even parts of the North. -
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education. -
Emmett Louis Till Murder
Emmett Louis Till was an African-American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman name Bryant's. Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till's great-uncle's house. They took Till away to a barn, where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed -
The “Little Rock Nine”
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
Space Race
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. With its success it started the space race. -
Malcom X
Malcolm X was a practitioner of the Black Muslim. Malcolm X delivered a different message than MLKjr: whites were not to be trusted. He called on African Americans to be proud of their heritage and to set up strong communities without the help of white Americans. -
George Wallace/The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium to try to block the entry of two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood.The incident brought Wallace into the national spotlight. -
MLKJr Speech
Dr. Martin Luther King's was a civil rights leader who believed in non-violent protesting. Which dramatizes the brutality and the evil of the white man against defenseless blacks. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed " I Have a Dream" speechto the crowd during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. -
Kennedy Assassination
On November 22, 1963, a wave of shock and grief swept the United States. Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the murder. Who later was shot by Jack Ruby. Following John F. Kennedy's assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the Presidency of the United States. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Upon the assassination of John F. Kennedy, then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson set out to complete the work that Kennedy had started. However, Johnson's vision of a "Great Society" was stymied by America's involvement in Vietnam. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the longest war in United States history. The legacy of bitterness divided the American citizenry and influenced foreign policy into the 21st century. -
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
The assassination of Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, a United States Senator and brother of assassinated President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, took place shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California, during the campaign season for the United States Presidential election, 1968. After winning the California and South Dakota primary elections for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, Kennedy was shot as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassado -
First Men on the moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. With the landing America won the space race and It change the course of history. -
Woodstock 1969
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". The festival is also widely considered to be the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history. -
1970S Disco Culture
The 1970s, pronounced "the Nineteen Seventies", refers to a decade within the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979. In the 21st century historians have increasingly portrayed the decade as a "pivot of change" in world history focusing especially on the economic upheavals. In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and political and economic liberty of women, continued to grow. -
Protests against the Vietnam War
Protests against the Vietnam War took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The protests were part of a movement in opposition to the Vietnam War and took place mainly in the United States. There are many pro- and anti-war slogans and chants. Those who used the anti-war slogans were commonly called "doves"; those who supported the war were known as "hawks" -
Richard Nixon/ Watergate Scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. Nixon was the first president to resign out of office. -
Cell Phone
A worker from Motorola in New York, Martin Cooper, created a cell phone called the prototype DynaTAC. He had the first call ever with a cellular device on April 3rd, 1973. The original phone weighed two and a half pounds and you could talk for 35 minutes and the recharge time was 10 hours. -
Digital Camera
Steve Sasson from Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975. It was about the size of a toaster and held images of .01 megapixels. -
Apple II Computer
The computing revolution of the 1980s began with the introduction of the Apple II series. Sometimes referred to as the "Model-T" of computers, the Apple II allowed businesses to streamline operations and brought the wonders of digital data management into the home. -
Jimmy Carter/ Iran Hostage Crisis
The Iran hostage crisis, also known in Iran as Conquest of the American Spy Den, was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States. Sixty-six American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days, after a group of Iranian students, belonging to the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, who were supporting the Iranian Revolution, took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. President Jimmy Carter called the hostages "victims of terrorism and anarchy," adding that "the United Sta -
Ronald Reagan/ Reaganomics
Reaganomics Reaganomics refers to the economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are commonly associated with supply-side economics, referred to as trickle-down economics by political opponents and free market economics by political advocates. -
Life in the 1980s
Americans enjoyed many fundamental changes in their standard of living in the 1980s. One major transformation was the new, expanded role of television. Cable television, although available in the 1970s, became standard for most American households. This change ushered in a whole host of new programming. -
John Lennon
John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career, and for his political activism and pacifism. He was shot by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City on Monday, 8 December 1980. -
Assassination attempt of RonaldReagan
The attempted assassination of United States President Ronald Reagan occurred on March 30, 1981, 69 days into his presidency. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. -
HIV/AIDs
AIDS was first clinically observed in 1981 in the United States. Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 are believed to have originated in non-human primates in West-central Africa and were transferred to humans in the early 20th century.(HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). -
End of Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the shredding of the Iron Curtain, the Cold War ended. It started in 1947 and ended in 1991.
