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Birth Of Rock B.Roll
The 1940's-50's was a time the Rock & Roll became very popular within the young society. Rock & 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 1060's the British invasion took place, being british artist took over the music industry. -
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2nd Great Magration
6 million African Americans.In the context of the 20th-century history of the United States, the Second Great Migration was the migration of more than five million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West. It took place from 1941, through World War II, and lasted until 1970. -
G.I Bill
The G.I Bill, officially the service men read adjustment act of 1944, provided many benefits to retrains of world war 2 it established retrains hospitals provided nepotists corer ins tuition attended college expenses for homes it still being till this day. -
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Baby Boom
Older Americans, who had postponed marriage and childbirth during the Great Depression and World War II, were joined in the nation’s maternity wards by young adults who were eager to start families. -
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The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
The origins of the Cold War can also be traced back to Winston Churchill’s use of the term “Iron Curtain” on May 3, 1946.It was marked by political tension, military rivalry and escalation of the arms race between the West led by the United States and the East led by the Soviet Union. -
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Cold War
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Polio Vaccine By Dr.Jonas Salk
In 1955, it was announced that the polio vaccine was effective and safe and a nationwide inoculation campaign began Salk conducted the first human trials on former polio patients and on himself and his family, and by 1953 two million american school children were given the new polio vaccine and cafes dropped to under 6,000 in 1957, the first year after vaccine was wide and available. -
Apollo II
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 astranouds became first person to event walk on the moon. The Apollo II mission occurred 8 years after years later. Announced that the rational goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of 1960's. -
Friendship 7
NASA astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth in his mercury capsule Friendship 7 , Clem's accomplishment brought a sense of pride and relief to Americans and instantly made the 31-year old Glenn a national hero. -
Moon Speech
-On May 15,1961, President Kennedy announced they were sending on American safety to the moon Kennedy felt great pressure to have U.S "catch up to and overtake'' the soviet union in the space race for yeas after the sputnik shock of 1957, Yuri Gagarin had became the first human in space in April 12,1961, greatly embarrassing for the U.S. -
Creation of NASA
National acrobatic and space administration(NASA).
NASA made it possible for the american research to collaborate on and disseminate scientific advance, an opportunity envied by many of u.s soviet union scientist. -
Air Conditioning
The 1st conditioning system was designed in 1902 by inventor Willis Carrier. The first Air Conditions were too bulky. Window a/c units didn't come about until the lat 1950's. The general public often first encountered air conditioning Americans in move 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 1050's air conditioning increased employee work out put by 24%