The Decades

The 1950's The 1960's The 1970's The 1980's

The 1950's
Timelines	Korean War	President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Suburbia	Prosperity	Cold War
China	Brown Vs. Board of Education	Dr. Jonas Salk
Bomb Shelters	Julius and Ethel Rosenberg	Rosa Parks
Alaska and Hawaii	Sputnik	McCarthyism

Time Lines Decades Statistics: 1950's Kingwood College Library: American Cultural History: 1950-1959 Korean War The Korean War: Compiled by Ed Evanhoe Pacific University Asian Studies Page: Korean War by Nathan Stanely SparkNotes.Com: Korean War Histor.Net: The Korean War Korean War FAQ: From a Chinese Perspective Wikipedia: Korean War back to the top President Dwight D. Eisenhower Whithouse.Gov: President Dwight D. Eisenhower Eisenhower Birthplace and Historical Site United States Army Homepage: Dwight D. Eisenhower- Scroll down to Postwar leader to read about Eisenhowers contributions during the '50's Kansas Heritage: Eisenhower Center Wikipedia Dwight D. Eisenhower back to the top Suburbia The Oddyssey United States Trek: 1950's Suburbia The Oddyssey United States Trek: American Life in the 1950's College of William and Mary: Suburbia and the 1950's Family FotoSearch: Stock Filmography from 1950's Suburbia The Howard Center: Bailey Park or Greater Pottersville? The Natural Family in the 20th Century suburb. Internet Archive: Prelinger Archives: In the Suburbs (1957) Thumbnails back to the top Prosperity Ann Arbor District Library: Pictorial History of Ann Arbor: Postwar Boom and Prosperity Wawanesa Insurance: History of the Company in Prosperous '50's Cold War Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit Library of Congress Soviet Archives: ColdWar Post War Estrangement CNN Cold War back to the top China United States Politics and Elections: United States/China Relations About.Com: Who Lost China? Mount Holyoke College: Pentagon Papers: Aid for France In IndoChina 1950-1954 Brown Vs. Board of Education PBS: Brown Vs. Board of Education African American History: Brown Vs. Board of Education by Lisa Cozzens National Center for Public Policy Research: Brown Vs. Board of Education Brown Foundation: Brown Vs. Board of Education back to the top Dr. Jonas Salk Academy of Achievement: Dr. Jonas Salk PBS: Science Oddyssey: People and Discoveries: Jonas Salk PBS: Science Oddyssey: People and Discoveries: Salk Produces Polio Vaccine The Time 100 Most Improtant People in this Century: Dr. Jonas Salk Bomb Shelters Oddyssey United States Trek: Fallout Shelters and Secret Bunkers of the Cold War Indian Hill HIstorical Society: Indian Hill Fallout Shelters It Seems LIke Yesterday: The Atomic Age: Fall Out the Silent Killer back to the top Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Oddyssey United States Trek: Does the Punishment Fit the Crime? University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School: Famous Trials: The Rosenberg Trial Wikipedia: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg Rosa Parks Grand Times.Com: Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Changed a Nation Scholastic.Com: Rosa Parks: How I Fought For Civil Rights Academy of Achievement: Rosa Parks The Times 100 Most Important People of the Century Wikipedia.Com: Rosa Parks back to the top Alaska and Hawaii Eisenhower Birthplace State Historical Site: Alaska and Hawaii Added to the Union Statewide Library Electronic Doorway: FAQ Alaska and Timeline 50 States.Com: List of States and Dates Granted Statehood University of Virginia: American History: A Brief HIstory of Alaska Statehood Hawaii School Reports: Hawaii Statehood The History Channel: Dwight D. Eisenhower Proclaims Hawaii the 50th state back to the top Sputnik Nasa: Sputnik I Oddyssey United States Trek: "This is Eagle 1 to Mission Control. We are Losing the Space Race." Wombat.Net: Here Comes Sputnik New York Times: On This Day: Soviet Fires Earth Sattelite into Space McCarthyism Oddyssey United States Trek: Movie at 10: Communists Invade Hollywood! The Fight For America: Senator Joseph McCarthy by Jesse Friedman Spartacus School.Net: Joseph McCarthy Wikipedia: Joseph McCarthy American History 102: Civil War to the Present: Senator Joseph McCarthy Info Please: Joseph Raymond McCarthy back to the top

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The 1960's
Civil Rights Movement	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	President John F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy	Bay Of Pigs (Cuban Missile Crisis)	Birmingham Alabama
Viet Nam	UFWA (Cesar Chavez)	Surgeon General's Declarations
Sit Ins	Space Race	President Lyndon B. Johnson
Appollo XI	Fidel Castro	Dr. Denton Cooley
The Draft	School Prayer	Stokely Johnson
Civil Rights Movement About.Com: Civil Rights Trinity College, Western Australia: Racial Discrimination and Civil Rights 1960�s USA Guilford College: Civil Rights Movement 1960�s- List of links Univeristy of Souther Mississippi Library: The Civil Rights Movement in Hattiesburg, Mississippi back to the 60's index Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Stanford University Project; Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement Long Island University: A Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Memphis Education Computer Connectivity Alliance: �I Have a Dream� Speech back to the 60's index President John F. Kennedy White House. Gov: John F. Kennedy The History Place: JFK Photo History Wikipedia: John Fitzgerald Kennedy John F. Kennedy Library and Museum: Biography Bartleby.Com: Text of JFK Inaugural Address back to the 60's index Robert F. Kennedy RFK Memorial: Robert F. Kennedy Biography Arlington National Cemetary Website: Robert Francis Kennedy Wikipedia: Robert F. Kennedy RiverKeeper.Org: Robert Kennedy back to the 60's index Bay Of Pigs (Cuban Missile Crisis) Mount Holyoke College: Documents Relating to U.S. Foreign Policy: Cuban Missile Crisis History and Politics Out Loud: Cuban Missile Crisis Library of Congress: Revelations from the Russian Archives: Cold War: Cuban Missile Crisis National Archives and Records Administration: Military Resources: Bay of Pigs Invasion and Cuban Missile Crisis back to the 60's index Birmingham, Alabama Prose and Photos: Birmingham Civil Rights District University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Ethnography: Civil Rights Act of 1964 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Ethnography: Birmingham 1963 Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: Online Resource Gallery: Eyewitness Accounts back to the 60's index Viet Nam FBI History: Viet Nam Era Viet Quoc: Vietnam War USMC Heritage Press: Vietnam Era Photos Authentic History Project: 1960�s Texas Tech University: The Viet Nam Center Viet Nam Center: Links back to the 60's index UFWA (Cesar Chavez) ThinkQuest: United Farm Workers of America and Cesar Chavez Commonwealth Club.Org: 20th Century Audio Archives: Cesar Chavez Institute for the Study of Civic Values: Civic Idealism: Cesar Chavez Ohio Citizen Action: Cesar Chavez back to the 60's index Surgeon General's Declarations Arlington National Cemetary Website: Luther Leonidas Terry, Surgeon General U.S. Department of Justice: Copy of a Legal action brief filed by the Tobacco Companies against the FDA Center for Disease Control and Prevention: 1964 Surgeon General�s Report on Smoking and Health Center for Disease Control and Prevention: History of the 1964 Surgeon General Report on Smoking and Health Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Selected Action of the U.S. Gov. Regarding Tobacco... Center of Disease Control and Prevention: Surgeon General Reports: 1960�s- Acrobat Reader back to the 60's index Sit Ins University of Virginia: The Psychedelic�60�s James Farmer Memorial Page: James Farmer: Civil Rights Giant in the �50�s and �60�s PBS: Nashville 1960: Overview PBS: Nashville 1960: We Were Warriors: The People back to the 60's index Space Race The Space Race.Com: The Mercury Project The Space Race.Com: The Gemini Program The Space Race.Com: The Apollo Space Missions Smithsonia: National Air and Space Museum: Space Race University of Wisconsin: Going to the Moon Nasa Astronomical Data Center: Space Exploration: Man the Traditional Explorer Nasa Astronomical Data Center: Space Exploration: How Space is Explored back to the 60's index Lyndon B. Johnson Whitehouse.Gov: Lyndon Baines Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum: Biographical Chronology Wikipedia: Lyndon B. Johnson American President.Org: Lyndon B. Johnson back to the 60's index Apollo XI Nasa: National Space Science Data Center: Apollo 11 Smithsonian: National Air and Space Museum: Apollo 11 Home North Park University: Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon Windows to the Universe: Apollo 11 back to the 60's index Fidel Castro New York Times: On This Day : Batista and Regime Flee Cuba; Castro Moving to Take Power Wikipedia: Fidel Castro Florida State University: Fidel Castro: Year One About.Com: Fidel Castro back to the 60's index Dr. Denton Cooley Texas Heart Institute: Dr. Denton Cooley Academy of Achievement: Dr. Denton Cooley NationMaster.Com: Dr. Denton Cooley Encyclopedia.Com: Artificial Heart back to the 60's index The Draft University of Pennsylvania: Draft Resistance in the Vietnam Era University of Pennsylvania: Draft Resistance in the Vietnam Era: Numbers Selective Service System: History and Records: The Vietnam Lotteries back to the 60's index School Prayer Ontario Institute for Studies in Education: History of Education: 1962 American Atheists.Org: FAQ�s about prayer in schools King County Library System: Homework Help: Prayer in School back to the 60's index Stokely Carmichael American Rhetoric: 100 Top Speeches: Stokely Carmichael: Black Power African American Involvement in the Vietnam War: Stokely Carmichael and the SNCC Spartacus School.Net: Stokley Carmichael Wikipedia: Stokley Carmichael back to the 60's index

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The 1970's
President Richard M. Nixon	Watergate	Gas Crisis (Arab Oil Embargo)
President Jimmy Carter	Iran Hostage Crisis	President Gerald Ford
Spiro Agnew	Gay Rights	Andrew Young
Kent State	South Viet Nam	Three Mile Island
Patty Hearst	George Wallace
Richard M. Nixon Whitehouse.Gov: Richard M. Nixon PBS: Essays: Richard M. Nixon: Character Above All Wikipedia: Ricahrd M. Nixon Nixon Presidential Materials: Nixon Archives back to the 70's index Watergate FBI History: Aftermath of Watergate Watergate Info.Com: Watergate: The Scandal that Brought Down Richard NIxon Washington Post.Com: Watergate Revisitede Wikipedia: Watergate back to the 70's index Gas Crisis (Arab Oil Embargo) Charlotte Country Day School: 1973 Oil Crisis by Sarah Horton Smithsonian: National Museum of American History: Energy Crises of the 1970�s Nasa Explores: Moving on Down the Highway: How the Energy Crisis Affected Car and Truck Designs back to the 70's index President Jimmy Carter Whitehouse.Gov: Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter Library and Museum: About Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter PBS: The American Experience: Jimmy Carter Wikipedia: James Earl Carter, Jr. back to the 70's index Iran Hostage Crisis Jimmy Carter Library and Museum: Iran Hostage Crisis Bartleby.Com: Columbia Encyclopedia: Iran hostage Crisis Wikipedia: Iran Hostage Crisis Info Please: Iran Hostage Crisis Super �70�s.Com: Iran Hostage Crisis back to the 70's index President Gerald Ford Whitehouse.Gov: Gerald R. Ford Gerald Ford Library and Museum: Information on Gerald and Betty Ford Wikipedia: Gerald Ford American President.Org: Gerald Ford back to the 70's index Spiro Agnew Wikipedia: Spiro Agnew Biographical Information of the United States Congress: Spiro Agnew Super �70�s.Com: Veep Spiro Agnew Spartacus School.Net: Spiro Agnew back to the 70's index Gay Rights Answers.Com: 1970�s Timeline of Gay Rights Frommer�s: San Francisco: History: 1970�s and 1980�s Gay Rights Info Please: Milestones in the Gay Rights Movement Sexual Orientation Issues in the News: 1970�s back to the 70's index Andrew Young Encyclopedia Britannica: Black History: Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. Wikipedia: Andrew Young Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: Andrew Young back to the 70's index Kent State Remebering Kent State: May Fourth Task Force Super �70�s.Com: Tragedy and Kent State The Ethical Spectacle: Kent State: May 4, 1970: America Kills it�s Children Alan Canfora: Kent State Eyewitness, Victim, Expert- About Alan Alan Canfora: Kent State Eyewitness, Victim, Expert-Description of Events of May 1st-4th back to the 70's index South Viet Nam Wikipedia: South Vietnam CIA.Gov: Vietnam Terra.Org: Leaders of South Vietnam Viet Quoc.Com: Why We Lost South Vietnam back to the 70's index Three Mile Island U. S. Regulatory Commission: Fact Sheet on the Accident at Three Mile Island PBS: The American Experience: Meltdown at Three Mile Island Three Mile Island Alert: The Accident at Three Mile Island Wikipedia: Three Mile Island back to the 70's index Patty Hearst Mr. San Francisco: Heart of the City: Notorious SF: Patty Hearst Wikipedia: Patty Hearst About.Com: 20th Century History: Patty Hearst PBS: American Experience: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst back to the 70's index George Wallace Wikipedia: George Wallace Alabama Governor�s Archives: George Wallace-Scroll down for �70�s info PBS: American Experience: George Wallace: Settin� the Woods on Fire Spartacus School.Net: George Wallace back to the 70's index

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The 1980's
The Columbia	The Challenger	Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Boesky and Drexel	Berlin Wall	"Just Say No"
President Ronald Reagan	HIV/AIDS	President George Bush
Geraldine Ferraro	The "Me" Decade	Medicare
The Columbia CNN.Com/Science and Space: Lost: Space Shuttle Columbia National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew Space.Com: Space Shuttle Columbia Crew Lost Wikipedia: Space Shuttle Columbia back to the 80's index The Challenger Awesome �80�s.Com: The Challenger Tragedy Wikipedia: Space Shuttle Challenger Federation of American Scientists: Space Policy Project: Space Shuttle Challenger About.Com: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster- A NASA Tragedy back to the 80's index Justice Sandra Day O'Connor OYEZ: U. S. Supreme Court Multimedia: Sandra Day O�Connor About.Com: Sandra Day O�Connor Wikipedia: Sandra Day O�Connor Cornell University: Legal Information Institute: Sandra Day O�Connor About.Com: Sandra Day O�Connor Quotes back to the 80's index Boesky and Drexel Risk Glossary.Com: Junk Bonds: Drexel Burnham Lambert The Eighties Club: Wolves on Wall Street Forbes: Dow Jones Interactive: An Interview with Michael Milken Wikipedia: Michael Milkin back to the 80's index Berlin Wall FBI History: The End of the Cold War Awesome �80�s: Fall of the Berlin Wall Newseum: Berlin Wall: Two Sides, One Story Fall of the Berlin Wall by Frederick Hamm: A First Hand Account Personal Account of the Fall of the Berlin Wall: The 11th and 12th of November, 1989 back to the 80's index "Just Say No" Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library: Just Say No: Mrs. Reagan�s Crusade Oswego city School District: U.S. History: Presidential Decisions: Bully Pulpit- Scroll down to The Reagans ask America to �just say no� to drugs Find Articles: Food and Nutrition: Just Say No to Drugs- Scroll down to find this article from Jan. 1988 back to the 80's index President Ronald Reagan Whitehouse.Gov: Ronald Reagan Wikipedia: Ronald W. Reagan Awesome �80�s: Reagan Shot Ronald Reagan Foundation and Library back to the 80's index HIV/AIDS About.Com: The History of HIV About.Com: Globalization Issues: On 20th Anniversary of First Aids Cases Avert.Org: History of Aids: 1981-1986 Aids Education Global Information System: So Little Time... An AIDS History Timeline back to the 80's index President George H. W. Bush Whitehouse.Gov: George Herbert Walker Bush George H. W. Bush Library and Museum: Research Resources Wikipedia: George Herbert Walker Bush Famous Texans: George H. W. Bush back to the 80's index Geraldine Farraro Scholastic.Com: Geraldine Ferraro Info Please: Geraldine Anne Ferraro National Women�s Hall of Fame: Geraldine Ferraro Britannica Online: Women in American History: Geraldine Ferraro About.Com: Geraldine Ferraro Quotes back to the 80's index The "Me" Decade Kingwood College Library: American Cultural History: 1980-1989 News: Voice of America: Making of a Nation the 1970�s and the 1980�s �80�s.Com: Children of the Eighties-just for fun back to the 80's index Medicare President Ronald Reagan�s Remarks on signing the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 Glossary: Insurance: Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act National Center for Biotechnical Information: Overview of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 and its Impact on Health-Care Delivery Houghton-Mifflin: Medicare Duke University Health System: Private Sector Conferences: Session 1: The Status of Managed Care and Evolutionary Trends back to the 80's index

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