The Modern World

By KarianaPerez
  • Atomic Bomb on Japan

    Atomic Bomb on Japan

    U.S. Drops atomic bomb on japan after 8 days the World war 2 ended.
  • Baby Boom

    Baby Boom

    Record amount of births in a period of economic growth and increased consumerism leads to the most dominant and self-conscious generation in American history.
  • Television

    Television

    Television becomes increasingly common.
  • Elvis Presley

    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Presley becomes international star, rock and roll becomes music of America’s youth.
  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis

    U.S. and Soviet Union come dangerously close to nuclear war.
  • Freedom Summer in Mississippi

    Freedom Summer in Mississippi

    Attempt to register African-Americans to vote, violence results throughout Mississippi.
  • President Johnson

    President Johnson

    launches his Great Society, including establishment of Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and dozens of other programs intended to lift Americans out of poverty.
  • First Large

    First Large

    scale economic crisis since Great Depression, leads to high unemployment and long-term economic uncertainty that lasts through remainder of 1970s.
  • Three Mile Island incident

    Three Mile Island incident

    near nuclear meltdown ends period of nuclear power growth in U.S.
  • War on Terror

    War on Terror

    started after the September 11 attacks on the United States. U.S. President George W. Bush first used the term "War on Terror" on 20 September 2001.