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Nazis Book Burning
Berlin students and Nazis officals burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of literature deemed "ungerman" on May 10, 1933. Students threw banned and pillaged books into large bonfires while sing loudly and listening to high Nazis officals gave speeches. Of the thousands of books burned, some of them included works by Upton Sinclair, Jack London, James Joyce and Joseph Conrad. -
Develpments and incidents involving the atomic bomb
Nine days after giving a presention, Candian physicist Louis Slotin died after manually assembling a critical mass of plutonium. This event happen after his screwdriver slipped, which caused a massive radation leak. Seven observers survived but three others died decades laters from medical conditions believed to be caused from the event. -
Peace Treaty ending World War Two
On Feburary 10, 1947, World War Two offically ended with the signing of the Paris Peace Treaty, The treaty was signed by Allied forces including France, England, the Soviet Union and the United States, who negotiated the peace treaty details with Finland, Italy, Romonia and Hungary. -
The Cold War
The Cold War is a term used to describe the tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. After the end of World War Two, former allies, the Soviet Union and the U.S. had lots of distrust and suspenion between the two world powers because of communism. After years of spying and building nuclear weapons to use aganist each other, the two world powers ended their Cold War after the break up of the Soviet Union and Berlin Wall. -
Black Listing in the Entertainment Business
On November 25, 1947 ten directors and writers were blacklisted after refusing to testify for the Committee of Un - American Activities. They were banned from working after having alleged ties to the Communist party and refusing to assist in the investigation. -
The Hiss Affair
Alger Hiss was a American lawyer and government offical who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948. Alger Hiss was tried and convicted on two counts of prejury after a former Commuunist party member testifited that Hiss was Communist sympather and spy. Hiss served 3 1/2 years out of his 10 year sentence. He maintained his innocence until his death. -
The Loyalty Oath Controversy at the University of California
The Loyalty Oath Controversy was started when the University of California made it a reqiurement for all University employees to sign loyality oathes to the country and denial membership the Communism party. Because of this oath, 31 professors were fired because they were "non signers." -
Development of new technologies
The second after of the 20 century saw a rise of new technologies like the color television, computers and the cell phone. Most of us all own at least of of one those 20th century echnologies. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a between South and North Korea with the US fighting with the North and China fighting with the South. The war lasted a little more than three years and created wounds and deaths of over 2.5 million civilians. The war ended on July 27, 1953 but only after causing the deaths over a million soldiers. -
The McCathy hearing
The McCarthy hearing was a series of hearing to investigate conflciting accusations from the US Army and Senator McCarthy. The US Army accused the the chief counsel of pressuring the Army into giving preferntial treatment to McCarthy's aide. McCarthy accused the US Army of having Communism ties. -
Brown vs. the Board of Education
Brown vs. the Board of Education is a very important Supreme Court case because it declared that "separate but equal" schools from blacks and whites are unconstitutional. This ruling was very important from the equal rights movement in the 1960's. -
Comic Book Banning
The Comic Magazine Association of America was formed because of widespread concern over violence in comic books. The CMA banned presentations of police officers, government officals, judges and others to be showed in a disrepectful fashion. Also, the CMA required good to triumph over evil. -
Rise of suburbia/ Levittown, PA
Levittown, Pennsylvania was home to the rise of suburbia. Between 1952 - 1958 workers used the assembly line system to build over 17,000 homes in an area that became Philadelpia's largest surburb.
