Timeline:
(1945) Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed
(1945) Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombed
(1947) Cold War
(1948) Berlin Airlift
(1948-1951) Marshall Plan
(1950-53) Korean War
(1951) Color TV
(1952) Polio Vaccine created
(1952) Eisenhower became 34th president
(1954) Brown vs. Board of Education
(1955) Warsaw Pact
(1955) Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man
(1956) Elvis Presley’s first single released
Quote:
"Leadership is the art of getting someone to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothes. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Homework:
How did the italicized points above directly influence the American culture? Would you consider these positive or negative contributions? Why?
For next week:
Research and be ready to discuss:
President Nixon's two most memorable presidential "achievements"
(hint: Watergate is one)
Bay of Pigs
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