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Book burning in Nazi Germany
An event unseen since the Middle Ages occurs as German students from universities formerly regarded as among the finest in the world, gather in Berlin and other German cities to burn books with "unGerman" ideas. Books by Freud, Einstein, Thomas Mann, Jack London, H.G. Wells and many others go up in flames as they give the Nazi salute. -
Cold War
The Cold War was a war between the united states and the soviet union. The reason they call it the cold war was because they never really got into a real fight. The closest the U.S. got to fight the Soviet Union was in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The reason the cold war started was because the S.U. and the U.S. wanted to see who was more powerful. -
Blacklisting in the Entertainment Industry
Blacklist (Entertainment Industry), refusal to hire people in the entertainment industry during the 1940s and 1950s because they had been accused of being members of the American Communist Party or having some connection to Communism. People working in film, television, radio, and theater were fired from their jobs and could not get new ones as a result of the blacklist. Because the blacklisting was secret, no one knows how many people were affected. -
The Hiss Affair
In 1948, HUAC began televised hearings of charges by Whittaker Chambers, writer and former Communist party, against Alger Hiss. Chamber charges Hiss with passing secret state documents to russia. -
Loyalty Oath Controversy at University of California
In 1949, during the Cold War, the Board of Regents of the University of California imposed 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. -
Development of new technologies
Some of the technologies in the 1950s.The first microchip/integrated circuit, first stored program computer, first mass-produced modems, inventing optical fibre,and the first credit card. -
Comic book bans in the 1950s
Different reasons depending on the book. Often books are mentioned as banned, then it turns out they weren't actually banned by the federal government, just some local town. -
Korean War
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 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. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. -
Rise of suburbia/Levittown, PA
Between 1950 and 1960, 20 million people were drawn to mass housing developments on the outskirts of America's cities. In terms of sheer numbers, the move to the suburbs outstripped the fabled Westward migration of the 1800s many times over. -
Developments and Incidents Involving the Atomic Bomb
B-29 bomber carrying a nuclear weapon without its fissile core crashed and burned near a trailer park occupied by 200 families. The crew experienced difficulty with the aircraft's propellers and with retracting its landing gear immediately after takeoff from Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base (now Travis Air Force Base), eventually crashing while attempting an emergency landing.
The bomber was carrying 10-12 500 lb. conventional explosive bombs, which detonated 15 minutes after the crash. The ensu -
Brown vs. Board of Education, 1951
The case of Brown v. Board of Education as heard before the Supreme Court combined four cases: Brown itself, Briggs v. Elliott (filed in South Carolina), Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (filed in Virginia), and Gebhart v. Belton (filed in Delaware). All were NAACP-sponsored cases. -
Peace Treaty Ending WW2
The treaty was signed in San Fransisco with Japan. Was officaly signed by 48 nations. Served as offical end of WW2. -
McCarthy Hearing
The McCarthy Hearing started in april an ended june 1954. The Mccarthy Hearing began when Joseph McCarthy began claims that many in the state Department the Pentagon,and acting and wrting guilds in hollywood and elsewhere were disloyal becuse of ties to the comunity party.
