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VIETNAM WAR
conflict between Communist forces of North Vietnam, backed by China and the USSR, and non-Communist forces of South Vietnam, backed by the United States.President Truman authorizes $15 million in economic and military aid to the French, who are fighting to retain control of French Indochina, including Vietnam -
COLD WAR
Cold war conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces on Korean Peninsula. North Korean communists invade South Korea -
COLD WAR
President Truman, without the approval of Congress, commits American troops to battle -
JOSEPH MCCARTHY
Second Red Scare, lasting roughly from 1950 to 1956 and characterized by heightened political repression against communists, as well as a fear campaign spreading paranoia of their influence on American institutions and espionage by Soviet agents. Originally coined to criticize the anti-communist pursuits of U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, "McCarthyism" soon took on a broader meaning, describing the excesses of similar efforts -
WAR TECHNOLOGY
researchers were ready to explode the first Super, now known more officially as the hydrogen bomb -
TECHNOLOGY
THE FIRST TRANSITOR RADIO -
BROWN V BOARD
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. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, which allowed state-sponsored segregation, insofar as it applied to public education -
MUSIC TREND IN THE 90'S
elvis presley was an American singer, musician, and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as "the King of Rock and Roll", or simply, "the King"., Presley was an early popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. -
EMMETT TILL
was an African-American boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman. HE WAS BEATEN TO DEATH -
SPACE RACE
Explorer 2 is launced but it fails to reach orbit. -
SPACE RACE
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is formed, it replaces the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA). -
technology
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EVOLUTION OF MUSIC
The style had first become popular in the late 1950s, in response to the growing encroachment of rock and roll on the country genre, but saw its greatest success in the 1960s -
JFK
PRESIDENT JFK IS ELECTED PRESIDENT -
SPACE RACE
Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space -
EVOLUTION OF MUSIC
Soul music develops popularity throughout the decade, led by Sam Cooke, James Brown, and Otis Redding, among many others.
Funk begins later in the decade with James Brown and Sly & the Family Stone having early hits -
GEORGE WALLACE
Wallace desperately wanted to preserve segregation. In his own words: "The President (John F. Kennedy) wants us to surrender this state to Martin Luther King and his group of pro-communists who have instituted these demonstrations.", signed state legislation to nullify desegregation guidelines between Alabama cities and counties and the former United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. -
MARTIN LUTHER KING
Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech before a crowd of 200,000 during the civil rights march on Washington, DC (Aug. 28) -
JFK ASSASINATION
President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Tex. (Nov. 22). He is succeeded in office by his vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson. -
HIPPIE MOVEMENT
During the mid-1960's a hippie subculture started to emerge among the youth population. The belief that they expressed was their anti-sentiments towards the war in Vietnam, and the civil right movement -
CICIL RIGHTS ACT
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations"). -
MALCOLM X
African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activistOn March 26, 1964 he met Martin Luther King, Jr. for the first and only time—and only long enough for photographs to be taken—in Washington, D.C. as both men attended the Senate's debate on the Civil Rights bill. -
Vietnam WAR
U.S. planes begin bombing raids of North Vietnam (Feb. 1965). First U.S. combat troops arrive in South Vietnam (March 8–9) -
WAR PROTEST
100,000 protesters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial; around 30,000 of them continued in a march on the Pentagon later that nigh -
MARTIN LUTHER KING
Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn -
WOODSTOCK
Woodstock Festival or simply Woodstock—was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". -
WAR PROTESTS ORGANIZATIONS
(CNVA) – radical pacifist organization that "blended philosophical anarchism with Gandhian pacifism."[30] The organization used civil disobedience in direct action against military action.
American Writers and Artists Against the War in Vietnam -
JIMMY CARTER
Carter was sworn in as the 76th Governor of Georgia on January 12, 1971, and held this post for one term, until January 14, 1975,served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 -
WATER GATE SCANDAL
break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement,The scandal led to the discovery of multiple abuses of power by the Nixon administration, articles of impeachment, and the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States -
SAPCE RACE
NASA LAUNCHES Fltsatcom-3 -
JOHN LENNON
JOHN LENNON IS SHOT IN NYC -
RONALD REAGAN
Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th president, -
RONALD REAGAN
President Reagan is shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr. (March 30). -
HIV/AIDS
THE AQUIRED SYNDROME AIDS HAS HAD A SUBSTANTIAL IMPACT ON THE HEALTH AND THE ECONOMY OF MANY NATIONS SINCE THE FIRST AIDS CASES WERE REPORTED IN THE U.S IN JUNE 1981, THE NUMBER OF CASES AND DEATHS AMONG PERSONS WITH AIDS INCREASED RAPIDLY DURING THE 1980'S -
INTERGRATION
The Senate passes a bill that virtually eliminated the practice of busing to achieve racial integration -
RONALD REAGAN
Reagan's second inauguration (Jan. 21). -
SPACE PROGRAM
Space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members -
FALL OF BERLIN WALL
The date on which the Wall fell is considered to have been 9 November 1989, but the Wall in its entirety was not torn down immediately. Starting that evening and in the days and weeks that followed, people came to the wall with sledgehammers or otherwise hammers and chisels to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts of it in the process and creating several unofficial border crossings. These people were nicknamed "Mauerspechte" -
COLD WAR END
Soviet Communist Party gives up its monopoly of power, continuing the trend, since the beginning of the Berlin Wall coming down, that the Cold War was about to end. -
GERMAN RENUFICATION
Germany was split in two following World War II. West Germany prospered while East Germany fell behind and experienced economic turmoil and dislocation
