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National Council for Social Studies.
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Everybody was really poor.
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Video The Japanese bombed a US Navy base in Hawaii. Although most of the ships were out of the harbor at the time, this even sparked the US to enter World War II.
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Yuri Gargarin, Russian cosmonaut was the first man in space.
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Niel Armstrong was the first man to step foot on the moon. He said, "That's one small step for a man...One giant leap for mankind." He planted an American flag.
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President Richard Nixon was involved in some scandalous affairs involving recording conversations. He was put on trial for impeachment but he resigned first.
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Terrorists hijacked U.S. airplanes and crashed them into The Twin Towers in New York City.
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The Sputnik, a Russian satellite, was the first satellite launched into space. The Space Race that developed between the USSR and USA stimulated the Cold War.