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The Hiss Affair
Alger Hiss was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official. Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. Alger Hiss died November 15, 1996 at age 92. -
Raise Of Suburbia
Raise in Suburbia means a raise in suburbs in the 1920's in Rome and Italy. They were meant for lower class families and citizens. Henry Ford was a reason why suburbs were catching on. His innovative ideas for making cars cut manufacturing costs, reducing the retail price for customers. Now that an average family could afford a car, more people could go to and from home and work everyday. Additionally, the development of the Interstate Highway System further encouraged suburban growth. -
Book Burning By Nazi's
On April 6th, 1933 the Main Office for Press and Propaganda of the German Student Association proclaimed a nationwide "Action against the Un-German Spirit', which was to climax in a literary purge or "cleansing" by fire.The Nazi party burned books in big fires for several reasons. Among these were the needs to remove all un-german ideas from Germany. Also, by removing such books they were able to erradicate independant thought, The image shows book burning in Berlin, May 1933. -
Devolpments And Incidents Involving The Atomic Bomb
On August 2, 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify uranium-235, which could be used to build an atomic bomb. The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in 1945. -
Cold War
The Cold War pretty much started when WWII ended. When the victors met at Potsdam, a suburb of Berlin, in 1945. The Cold War was so named because the two major powers never met in direct military combat. Each owned nuclear weapons and therefore threatened with mutual assured destruction.The war ended two years later , 1947. -
Peace Treaty Ending World War 2
There was no single pact signed to end the war. A lot of countries just surrendered to the Allies. Most were in bad economic state. In the photo are Canadian representatives at the Paris Peace Conference, Palais du Luxembourg. -
Blacklisting In The Intertainment Industry
Blacklist (Entertainment Industry), was the 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 couldn't get new ones as a result of the blacklist. Because the blacklisting was secret, no one knows how many people were affected. The first happened on Nov. 24th, 1947. -
Comic Book Bans In The 1950s.
In the 1950s the comic books, especially the horror genre, were trying to be baned because it currupted young people. I'm guessing violence became a huge problem in the United States.The Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, led by Senator Estes Kefauver fresh from his victory over organized crime, put comics on trial, which Trombetta explains became more of a show trial. Words such as “horror” and “terror” were banned by the new code, and even “crime” faced heavy restrictions. -
Korean War
The Korean War was conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. World War III finally, in July 1953, the Korean War came to an end. In all, some 5 million soldiers and civilians lost their lives during the war. The Korean peninsula is still divided today. -
Brown vs. Board Of Education
It known as the Supreme Court decision that declared segregated schools to be "inherently unequal." On May 17, 1954 when a unanimous Supreme Court declared that the Topeka Board of Education's policy of segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution. Many others fought after Brown. There is still segregation in certain states in the U.S. Poeple are still fighting for their rights. -
Loyalty Oath Controversy At University
Charles Muscatine was an American academic specializing in medieval literature, particularly Chaucer. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Following the war he returned home to complete his studies and went on to become a tutor at UC Berkeley. He was fired from his position there for refusing to sign a McCarthyite oath. He challenged the termination in court and won reinstatement to his post at Berkeley in a landmark court in 1951. -
Development Of New Technologies
In many societies, technology has helped develop more advanced economies (including today's global economy). Color television is part of the history of television, the technology of television and practices associated with television's transmission of moving images in color video.The use of the term technology has changed significantly over the last 200 years. -
The McCarthy Hearings
The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused chief committee counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide and a friend of Cohn's. McCarthy continued to chair the Subcommittee on Investigations until January 3, 1955, the day the 84th United States Congress was inaugurated. McCarthy died of hepatitis in May 1957.
