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Hiv/Aids
Disease of the human immune system caused by infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The United States of America became the first country to officially recognise a strange new illness among a small number of gay men. -
Malcom x
An African-American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. He taught that white society actively worked to keep African-Americans from empowering themselves and achieving political, economic, and social success. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.Through his activism, he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the South and other areas of the nation, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors -
McDonalds
The business began in 1940, with a restaurant opened by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald at 1398 North E Street at West 14th Street in San Bernardino, California. McDonald's first filed for a U.S. trademark on the name "McDonald's" on May 4, 1961, with the description "Drive-In Restaurant Services", which continues to be renewed. -
Cold War
A sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc , the United States with NATO and others . The nname given to the relationship that developed primarily between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. The Cold War was to dominate international affairs for decades and many major crises occurred - the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary and the Berlin Wall being just some -
Joseph McCarthy - McCarthyism
Practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence. These factors combined to create an atmosphere of fear and dread, which proved a ripe environment for the rise of a staunch anticommunist like Joseph McCarthy. -
The Korean War
75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself -
First Colored Shows
CBS broadcast the very first commercial color TV program. Unfortunately, nearly no one could watch it on their black-and-white televisions. Despite these early successes with color programming, the adoption to color television was a slow one. -
Hugh Hefner
He mortgaged his furniture, generating a bank loan of $600, and raised $8,000 from 45 investors, including $1,000 from his mother . The undated first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot and sold over 50,000 copies. -
Brown v. Board of Education
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Disneyland Opens
Disneyland opened for a few thousand specially invited visitors; the following day, Disneyland officially opened to the public. Disneyland, located in Anaheim, California on what used to be a 160-acre orange orchard, cost $17 million to build -
Emmet Till's Murder
Age of 14 Till was reported flirting with a white woman. The boys body was taken away to a barn, where he was beat and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man while riding on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for breaking the laws of segregation. Rosa Parks' refusal to leave her seat sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and is considered the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis’ musical influences were the pop and country music of the time, the gospel music he heard in church and at the all-night gospel sings he frequently attended, and the black R&B he absorbed on historic Beale Street as a Memphis teenager. Known the world over by his first name, he is regarded as one of the most important figures of twentieth century popular culture -
Dr.Suess publishes Cat in the Hat
Children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and first published in 1957. The story centers on a tall anthropomorphic cat, who wears a red and white-striped hat and a red bow tie. -
The " Little Rock Nine"
Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Vietnam War
Also known as the Second Indochina War, and known by the Vietnamese as the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States -
Hippe culture
Originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. Hippie fashions and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. -
The Berlin Wall created
The communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall Built
Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area. -
Marilym Monroe found dead
Her death was ruled to be "acute barbiturate poisoning" by Dr. Thomas Noguchi of the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office and listed as "probable suicide". The pathologist, Dr. Thomas Noguchi, could find no trace of capsules, powder or the typical discoloration caused by Nembutal in Monroe's stomach or intestines, indicating that the drugs that killed her had not been swallowed. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Almost immediately, alternative theories of Kennedy’s assassination emerged–including conspiracies run by the KGB, the Mafia and the U.S. military-industrial complex, among others. -
U.S. Sends troops to Vietnam
President Lyndon B. Johnson, per the authority given to him by Congress in the subsequent Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, decided to escalate the Vietnam Conflict by sending U.S. ground troops to Vietnam. 3,500 U.S. Marines landed near Da Nang in South Vietnam; they are the first U.S. troops arrive in Vietnam. -
Civil Rights Movement
Social movements in the United States whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans and enforce constitutional voting rights to them. African Americans in Southern states still inhabited a starkly unequal world of disenfranchisement, segregation and various forms of oppression, including race-inspired violence. -
Black Panthers
Was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States. Community-based, non-profit research, education, and advocacy center dedicated to fostering progressive social change. -
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy, commonly known as "Bobby" or by his initials RFK, was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as a Senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. After he announced to his cheering supporters that the country was ready to end its fractious divisions, Kennedy was shot several times by the 22-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan -
The Space Race
Beginning in the late 1950s, space would become another dramatic arena for this competition, as each side sought to prove the superiority of its technology, its military firepower and–by extension–its political-economic system .20th Century, the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration. -
Woodstock, 1969
It was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". The festival is also widely considered to be the definitive nexus for the larger counterculture generation -
Scooby-Doo, Where are you
The first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon series. Nine episodes from Scooby-Doo's 1978-79 season, first run on ABC, were originally broadcast with the 1969 Scooby Doo, Where Are You! opening and closing sequences -
Disco culture
Its initial audiences were club-goers from the African American, gay, Italian American, Latino, and psychedelic communities in New York City and Philadelphia. Disco also was a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Women embraced disco as well. -
Rubik's Cube
Rubiks Cube was Widely reported that the cube was built as a teaching tool to help his students understand 3D objects. He did not realize that he had created a puzzle until the first time he scrambled his new Cube and then tried to restore it -
Apple Inc.
American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne sell the Apple I personal computer kit, a computer single handedly designed by Wozniak -
Pac-Man game released
The yellow, pie-shaped Pac-Man character, who travels around a maze trying to eat dots and avoid four mean ghosts, quickly became an icon of the 1980s. Apparently Namco, the company that made Pac-Man, was hoping to create a video game that would entice girls to play as well as boys -
John Lennon's Murder
A worldwide outpouring of grief and tribute followed John Lennon's assassination, culminating in a 10-minute silent vigil on December 14 that saw some 100,000 people gather in New York's Central Park and tens of thousands of others in cities around the world. Of Chapman, who pled guilty to Lennon's killing and was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison -
Assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan
While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. Hinckley's motivation for the attack was born of his obsession with actress Jodie Foster due to erotomania -
The Movie E.T. Realeased
They storyline of E.T. had its beginnings in director Steven Spielberg's own past. When Spielberg's parents divorced in 1960, Spielberg invented an imaginary alien to keep him company. -
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Space Shuttle Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Challenger soared into the sky and then, shockingly, exploded just 73 seconds after take-off. All seven members of the crew, including social studies teacher Sharon "Christa" McAuliffe, died in the disaster. An investigation of the accident discovered that the O-rings of the right solid rocket booster had malfunctioned. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
East German government official Günter Schabowski stated during a press conference that travel through the border to the West was open. As the news spread on both sides of the Wall, huge numbers of people flocked to the Berlin Wall and celebrated. -
O.J. Simpson Murder Case
O. J. Simpson murder case (officially the People of the State of California vs. Orenthal James Simpson) was a criminal trial held at the Superior Court in Los Angeles County, California, that spanned from the jury. The former professional football star and actor O. J. Simpson was tried on two counts of murder after the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a waiter, Ronald Lyle Goldman.
