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1. World War II was one of the biggest things happening in the 1940's. Also in 1940 the first helicopter takes flight. The first ever atom split was in 1942 by Enrico Fermi. In 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide. Again in 1945 the Japanese surrender and World War II ends. All in 1947 India gains Independence, the transister is invented by Alexander Graham Bell Laboratories and a plane breaks the supersonic barrier. media type="custom" key="6685667" width="130" height="130" align="right"  2. Dance bands were popular in the 1940's because they they provided happiness and relief from the war and the Depression.  3. Because in the 1940's the war had made many people downcast so everyone wanted to listen to music that reminded them of "the good old days". 4. Some great music stars were Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller and Chuck Berry. 5. Lives of women changed a lot during the 1940's mostly because the men were at war so the women had to go to work and do all the things men regularly would do. Though when the men returned if the women worked outside of the house they got paid less. These were called pink-collar jobs.
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=//**1950's **//= 1. The Baby Boom was a huge increase in birth that went from 1946 to 1964 in the US and times were slightly different in other countries. 2. Rock 'n' Roll originated in the United Kingdom late 40's-early 50's 3. There was the Cold War ( involving the Soviet Union and the United States), the Vietnam War and the Korean War. Duri ng this era the fear of communism only grew more and more due to the situation in Russia. Any minor thing would agitate the population. This became known as the "Red Scare" which was the great fear of communism that existed during this period. 4. Economically speaking, the 1950's was a relatively stale period of time, that is, compared to the 30's and the 40's. The 1950's, being an uneventful period, explains why the economy did not experience any major problems or breakthroughs. However, this gradual growth led to the US being at peak eco nomic strength in the early 1960's. There were also a significant number of occurences and trends that were important both during this decade and as a contributor to future events. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 16px;">5. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Clashes between communism and capitalism dominated the decade, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. The conflicts included the Korean War and the beginning of the Space Race with the launch of Sputnik 1. Along with increased testing of nuclear weapons (such as RDS-37 and Upshot-Knothole), this created a politically conservative climate.

=//**<span style="color: #0200ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 240%;">1960's **//= <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of some social taboos especially relating to sexism and racism that occurred during this time. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">1. This created a "counterculture" that sparked a social revolution throughout much of the western world. It began in the United <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">States as a

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> reaction against the conservatism and social conformity of the 1950s, and the US government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam. media type="custom" key="6909517" width="129" height="129" align="right" <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">2. The Space Race was a mid-to-late twentieth century competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (USA) for <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;"> supremacy in outer space <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">exploration. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">3. Many social changes that were addressed in the 1960s are still the issues being confronted today. The '60s was a decade of social and political upheaval. In spite of all the turmoil, there were some positive results: The civil rights revolution, John F. Kennedy's bold vision of a new frontier, and the breathtaking advances in space, helped bring about progress and prosperity. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">4. Massive black rebellions, constant strikes, gigantic anti-war demonstrations, draft resistance, Cuba, Vietnam, Algeria, a cultural revolution of seven hundred million Chinese, occupations, red power, the rising of women, disobedience and sabotage, communes & marijuana: amongst this chaos, there was a generation of youths looking to set their own standard

=//**<span style="color: #001aff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 240%;">1970’s **//= <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">1. The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. It was accompanied by much civil unrest and popular rebellion. The process was long and tenuous in many countries, and most of these movements did not fully achieve their goals although, the efforts of these movements did lead to improvements in the legal rights of previously oppressed groups of peoples. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">2. If the period associated with first-wave focused upon absolute rights such as <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">suffrage (which led to women attaining the right to vote in the early part of the 20th century), the period of the second-wave femminism was concerned with the issues such as changing social attitudes and economic, reproductive, and educational equality (including the ability to have careers in addition to motherhood, or the right to choose not to have children) between the genders and addressed the rights of female minorities. The new feminist movement, which spanned from 1963 to 1982, explored economic equality, political power at all levels, professional equality, reproductive freedoms, sexuality, issues with the family, educational equality, sexuality, and many other issues. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">3. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">.In the 1970s there was increasing awareness that estimates of global temperatures showed cooling since 1945. Of those scientific papers considering climate trends over the 21st century, only 10% inclined towards future cooling, while most papers predicted future warming. The general public had little awareness of carbon dioxide's effects on climate, but Science News in May 1959 forecast a 25% increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide in the 150 years from 1850 to 2000, with a consequent warming trend.

=//**<span style="color: #0237e8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 240%; line-height: 38px;">1980's **//= <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">1. The 1980's became the Me! Me! Me! generation of of status seekers. During the 1980's, hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and mega-mergers spawned a new breed of billionaire. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">2. Michael Jackson, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Prince and Bon Jovi. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">3. The Berlin Wall divided West Berlin and East Berlin. When it was removed it gave the opportunity for the places to reunite. media type="custom" key="6868335" width="150" height="150" align="right"

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;"> //<span style="color: #0237e8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 44px; line-height: 38px;">1990's // = <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; line-height: 35px;">1. Because of all the inventions of technology and things that use electricity at this time. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">2. Because of text talk <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">3. The bombings of the World Trade Center and the <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;">Olkahama <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> leads to awareness in U.S. of domestic and international terrorism as a potential threat <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">.

=<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">//<span style="color: #0237e8; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 44px; line-height: 38px;">2000's // ** = <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px;">1. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;">Terrorism has become a part of modern life. Hijackings, bombings, and assassinations on different continents of the world may seem like isolated attacks, but they reflect an easy reliance on violence as a way to promote social, political, and religious change. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">2. The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">3. Barack Obama being the first 'black' president of the United States, an economic crisis, Afghanistan War. media type="custom" key="6909643" width="130" height="130" align="center"