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Post War United States
This time period was mostly about how life was for Americans after the war. After the war the population had rapidly increased, segregation was being protested against, and John F. Kennedy became president. During this time period a lot had changed for Americans. -
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The Postwar United States, 1945-1968
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The baby boom begins
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Jackie Robinson Inspires Integrated Sports
Jackie Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and they become the first integrated team. -
Arts and entertainment
It was a great time period of when the music and technology advanced and Tv's were in everybodys houshold. -
he was elected to the US Senate
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Television Becomes Popular
The television is becoming more popular and is becoming more common in average households. -
Primary source 1 Tv in America
It talked about how the music advanced and how they invented the TV. It was very important time in the Arts and Entertainment part of it. -
he was almost picked to run for vice president.
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The sit ins began
On this day four black students began a protest at a Woolworth lunch counter. -
Kennedy won the presidential election by a very narrow margin
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primary sources
On early november 1960 this letter was from John F Kennedy to clair boothe thanking her for a good luck coin. He was telling her hoe greatful he was to receive the coin. -
JFK become president
John F. Kennedy beat Nixon in the president election -
Kennedy defeated the Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in a very close race
Kennedy defeated the Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in a very close race -
A poet at the Inauguration by Robert Frost
This poem was written by Robert Frost because president John F. Kennedy had asked him to write/ read something for his inauguration. The poem is mainly about how many of the presidents before John F. Kennedy had done great things. Also, it was about the change that JFK planned on bringing to Americans. -
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In early march 1963 kennedy challenged americans by thinking of ways they can serve. Also it explains that kennedy had 118,000 more votes than nixon. Then it explains how kennedy had won votes of many traditional democratic voters. -
March on Washington
This is when MLK jr. lead a march to Washington D.C. to protest against blacks not having rights and freedom. -
1963 JFK is assassinated
John F. kennedy was riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas as he got shot. -
he was U.S. senator from New York from 1965 to 1968.
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MLK was assassinated
Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot while he was staying at a hotel. -
Conclusion
This time is important because there was many things happing such as inovations to things also how JFK was shot and things like how we got to the moon.
