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Nazi Book Burning8 Apr 1933
The Nazi Book burning's was a campaign to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria. The targeted books were usually Jewish, pacifist, liberal, anarchist, socialist, and communist. -
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. The War began in August 1945when the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, who at the time had rule over Korea. The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when the armistice was signed. The agreement created the North and South Korea. -
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
On August 6, 1945, during World War II an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki. -
Rise of Suburbia, Levittown
In 1947, Abraham Levitt built a planned community in Nassau County, Long Island. Within a few years, Levitt had transformed a former farmland into a suburban community housing thousands of men and their families. Levittown has become a legend in the history of the American suburbs. -
The Cold War
The Cold War,which began in 1947, was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. The two superpowers never engaged directly in full-scale armed combat but they each armed heavily in preparation for a possible all-out nuclear world war. The war ended in 1953. -
Paris Peace Treaty
The Paris Peace Treaty was signed on 10 February 1947. The treaty was signed by the wartime Allies and the Axis powers, ending the world war. -
Hollywood Blacklist
The Hollywood Blacklist was the practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, musicians, directors, and other American entertainment workers for their alleged membership or sympathy with the Communist party. The first blacklist was instituted on November 25, 1947. -
The Hiss-Chambers affair
Alger Hiss was an American Lawyer who was convicted of being a soviet spy. The Hiss case dates to February 1925, when Whittaker Chambers joined the Communist Party of the United States. He testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and charged that Hiss was a communist in the 1930's and 1940's. Hiss served nearly four years in jail, but continued protesting his innocence during his imprisonment. -
The Loyalty Oath Contraversy
In 1949, during the Cold War, the Board of Regents of the University of California made a requirement that all University employees sign an oath affirming not only loyalty to the state constitution, but a denial of membership or belief in organizations supporting the overthrow of the United States government. -
Color TV Introduced
On June 25, 1951, CBS broadcast the very first commercial color TV program. This first color program was a variety show simply called, "Premiere" but it only reached four cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. -
Comic Book Bans
During the 1950's horror comic books were looked at as a corrupting force on the minds of young people, an issue that was overlooked by the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenal Delinquency, which was to ban comic books. -
Brown vs Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education 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. -
Army-McCarthy hearing
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the investigations of the accusations between the U.S. Army Senator Joseph McCarthy. The hearings started March 16, 1954 and ended June 17.
