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1940-1989

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    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.