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Technology of Television
The technology of television has changed since its early days using a mechanical system invented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884 -
Hollywood Blacklist
The Hollywood blacklist- as the broader entertainment industry blacklist is generaly known- was the mid-20th-century practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicians, and other U.S. entertainment professionals because of their suspected political beliefs or associations. -
Book Burning in Nazi Germany
The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representing ideologies opposed to Nazism. -
Peace Treaty ending WWII
The final battles of the European Theatre of World War II as well as the German surrender to the Western Allies and the Soviet Union took place in late April and early May 1945 -
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. -
Rise of suburbia/Levittown, PA
In 1947, entrepreneur Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, broke ground on a planned community located in Nassau County, Long Island. Within a few years, the Levitts had transformed the former farmland into a suburban community housing thousands of men—many of whom were veterans returned from World War II—and their families. -
The Cold War
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact). -
The Hiss Affair
On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, 47, a senior editor of Time magazine, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist cells that he said had infiltrated the federal government. Chambers had already told his story to a number of government officials, going back to 1939, but only now in a year when the GOP had its first real chance to capture the White House since 1933 was it getting a public airing. -
Loyalty Oath Controversy at University of California
The loyalty oath controversy began in 1949 and continued until the last suit for black wages was won by a non-signer, and until the American Association of University Professors lifted its censure of the administration. -
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, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
Brown v.Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 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 McCarthy Hearings
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 purpose of investigating conflictingaccusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. -
Comic Book Bans in the 1950s
The United States government got into the fear business in a big way by shutting down one form of horror and replacing it with a form of their own. The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read! brings the horror comics of the 1950s back to life.
