THE AGE OF RADIO IS ENDING
THE AGE OF TELEVISION
FDR runs for a
4th term picks
Truman as VP
Truman runs baley
wins against Dewey,
Democrats were split
Eisenhower runs on the
Nation is
Kennedy (D) v.
message of getting US out
comfortable with
Nixon (R)
of Korea and calming
Close election
IKE
things down in the Cold
1st TV
War
Debates
Truman (D)
Eisenhower (R)
Eisenhower (R)
(1948-1952)
(1952-56)
(1956-60)
-Ike runs on the promise to end the
-Warsaw Pact (1948)
-No Support for
Korean War and calm people's fear
-NATO (1949)
Hungarians(1956)
down. Chooses Red Hunter
-China Falls (1949)
-Suez Crisis (1956)
Richard M. Nixon as Vice
-USSR explodes 1st
-Eisenhower Doctrine (1956)
President "Checker's Speech"
atomic bomb (1949)
-Sputnik (1957)
(1952)
-Berlin Crisis (1949)
-Interstate Highway Act "NDHA"
-NDEA (1958)
-Cuba Falls (1959)
-McCarran Internal
(1956)
-Kitchen Debates (1959)
Security Bill passed over
-SAC (1954)
-OPEC (1960)
Truman's Veto (1950)
-McCarthyism (1950-54)
-Korean War (1950-53)
-Paris Summit collaspes with
-Administration Goals: Balance
Krushchev because of U2 (1960)
-Firing of MacArthur
Budget & stop creeping socialism
-U2 Incident (1960)
(1951)
-Operation Wetback (1954)
-CIA puts Shah in Iran (1953)
-US Explodes 1st
-Eisenhower warns of the ever
Hydrogen Bomb (1952)
-Billy Graham & Oral Roberts on
increasing military complex.
-USSR Explodes 1st
TV and Crisades rise of modern
Kennedy (D) and Nixon (R) run
evangelicalism
against each other in 1960
Hydrogen Bomb (1953)
Truman (D)
(1945-48)
-VE Day May 8, 1945
-Potsdam
-Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(1945)
-VJ Day Sept. 2, 1945
-Nuremberg Trials (1945-46)
-National Security Act
(1947)
1. CIA
2. NSC
3. Department of Defense
-Marshall Plan (1947)
-UN (1947)
-Israel (1948)
-GI Bill (Fair Deal)
-Truman Doctrine in response
to Greece (1947) Kennan's
Advice
FDR (D)
(1932-April 45)
-Manhattan Project
(1939)
-Atlantic Charter
(1941)
House on UnAmerican Activities
"HUAC" (1939)
-Bretton Woods
"International
Monetary Fund, IMF"
1944
-Yalta Conference
(1945)
Baby Boom 74,000,000 19
materialism
Levittown---White Flight Urban Blight
Rise of the Sunbelt
Disneyland
Korean War 195022
????
two terms
Playboy
spirituality
Bomb Shelters
East of Eden
Catcher in the Rye
McDonalds
conformity
Jim Crow Laws 1877-1950-60s Truman Desegregates the Army
Jesse Owens 1936
Dixiecrats respond in 1948
Joe Lewis 1939
Jackie Robison
Ho Chi Mihn
SEATO
fights Japan
O
N
G
Ike 101st Airborne
Little Rock 9
SCLC (King)
SNCC
Fall of Dienbienphu
"Domino Theory"
1945
Elvis
James Dean
I Love Lucy Leave it to Beaver
Ed Sullivan Show
Alaska and Hawaii
Beatnik Movement
Brown v. Board of Education
Rosa Parks
Ho Chi Mihn fights France
L
1939
Rock-n-Roll
E
C
1948
O
N
M
I
(Geneva Peace Accord
splits Vietnam for two years)
C
1952
Elections not held Dulles--
B
1954
O
1956
O
Ike sends aid to South
Vietnam Ngo Dinh Diem
(Guerilla Fighting)
M
1960