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Atomic Bomb on Japan
U.S. Drops atomic bomb on japan after 8 days the World war 2 ended. -
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 becomes increasingly common. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley becomes international star, rock and roll becomes music of America’s youth. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
U.S. and Soviet Union come dangerously close to nuclear war. -
Freedom Summer in Mississippi
Attempt to register African-Americans to vote, violence results throughout Mississippi. -
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
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
near nuclear meltdown ends period of nuclear power growth in U.S. -
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.
