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1940-1989

By Emgirlie98
  • Period: to

    1949

  • North Korea, South Korea

    North Korea, South Korea
    koreaNorth Korea and South Korea declare war after Northern forces stream south on June 25

  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    richard nixonRichard Nixon is first elected to the United States Senate

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    eisenhowerDwight D. Eisenhower is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.

  • vaccine

    vaccine
    polioThe vaccine for polio is privately tested by Jonas Salk.

  • H-Bomb

    H-Bomb
    h-bombH-Bomb is in the middle of its development as a nuclear weapon, announced in early 1950 and first tested in late 1952.

  • Albert Einstein

    Albert Einstein
    AlbertAlbert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76.

  • JFK, blown away

    JFK, blown away
    jfk

  • Birth control

    Birth control
    birth Control In the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as "the pill", first go on the market and are extremely popular

  • Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald ReaganRonald Reagan: President of the United States from 1981 to 1989; first attempted in 1976 to run for president

  • AIDS

    AIDS
    AIDS A collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is first detected and recognized in the 1980s, and was on its way to becoming a pandemic.