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Women and People of Color were not getting paid as much as men were getting paid

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The United States halts wheat sales to the Soviet Union, a sanction imposed after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

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tensions started to rise due to the change in western foregin policy towards the Soviet Union

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The second New Right formed a policy approach and electoral apparatus that brought Ronald Reagan into the White House in the 1980 presidential election. The New Right was organized in the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation to counter the so-called "liberal establishment".

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The Macintosh was a computer with a price tag that was within reach for many, and more importantly, it was a computer that almost anyone could operate without going to school to become an expert

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People were starting to take care of themselves better becase they were seeing the dangers of drugs, and because with new diesases like aids started to come around, people started to have safe sex

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Tv started to become more popluar i should say and better improved

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music started to broadcast on tv and  instrumental in promoting the careers of performers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince and Duran Duran etc.

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The Cold War came to the Olympics in 1980 as the United States led the way in a mass boycott of the Moscow Games in protest at the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.

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an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S. "War on Drugs", aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no.

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a fatal incident in the United States' space program that occurred on January 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

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During the Geneva Summit that was held on November 19, 1985, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev shook hands as they meet and the fact that the two sides met harmoniously in the midst of Cold War tensions appeared to promise well for the future of international relations.

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The Iran-Contra Affair, or also known as the McFarlane affair in Iran, was a political scandal in the United States. It was a secret U.S. arms deal that traded missiles and other arms to free some Americans that were held hostage by terrorists in Lebanon and it also used funds from the arms deal to support armed conflict in Nicaragua.

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The Fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the most famous scenes in history. It was also a pivotal event as it marked thebeginning of the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that was guarded. It physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

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The Hoover Commission, officially named the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, was a body appointed by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 to recommend administrative changes in the Federal Government of the United States.

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This Act regulates the organization of companies, including mutual funds, that engage primarily in investing, reinvesting, and trading in securities, and whose own securities are offered to the investing public

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Due to the world war there was't a lot of leisure time, but the most popular things that they did  were watching movies, going to sporting events,watching TV, listening to the radio, and going to dances or party's.

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Unemployment was high, while prices and wages were low. By 1940, with Europe at war, everything had changed. European countries were desperate for goods to use in the war effort. They spent millions of dollars on American steel, ammunition, weapons, and food.

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The Kennedy-Nixon debates not only had a major impact on the election’s outcome, but ushered in a new era in which crafting a public image and taking advantage of media exposure became essential ingredients of a successful political campaign. They also heralded the central role television has continued to play in the democratic process.

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Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.

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King and Fred Shuttlesworth announced an agreement with the city of Birmingham to desegregate lunch counters, restrooms, drinking fountains, and department store fitting rooms within ninety days, to hire blacks in stores as salesmen and clerks, and to release of hundreds of jail protesters on bond.

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The Albany Movement was a desegregation campaign formed on November 17, 1961, in Albany, Georgia and it had challenged all forms of racial segregation and discrimination in the city.

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The United States had provided funding, armaments, and training to South Vietnam's government and military since Vietnam's partition into the communist North and the democratic South in 1954. Tensions escalated into armed conflict between the two sides, and in 1961 U.S. President John F.

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During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores

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At the Vienna summit of June 1961, Khrushchev again demanded that the Americans leave West Berlin. President John F. Kennedy refused and on 25 July, increased America's spending on weapons.

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The Berlin Crisis started when the USSR launched an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of all armed forces from Berlin, including the Western armed forces in West Berlin. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.

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Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s broke the pattern of public facilities' being segregated by “race” in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period

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In 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. The next day, Governor Wallace yielded to the federal pressure, and two African American students Vivian Malone and James A. Hood successfully enrolled.

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Segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, an African-American veteran, at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.

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in 1961, when the state's flagship school was issued a court ruling that ordered the immediate admission of two African American teenagers, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes

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Gagarin's flight came at a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for technological supremacy in space. The Soviet Union had already sent the first artificial satellite, called Sputnik, into space in October 1957.

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On September 22, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Peace Corps Act, making good on a promise to seek Americans “from every race and walk of life” to volunteer their services to developing countries

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Election Debates started to become broadcatsed on national tv anad first one to do that was Kennedy vs Nixon

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The historic 1964 Civil Rights Act included federal measures to enforce school desegregation. Subsequent Congressional action and a series of Supreme Court rulings in the late 1960s

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In the 1970s, women's groups tried to create a more open and nurturing society. To achieve this, they demanded and won access to male-dominated business and universities.

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leaders of the American Indian Movement took over the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. Tribes across the country were living in deplorable conditions on reservations. Several groups sued for better treatment.

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Mexican-Americans began voting and running for local office. They asked school districts to teach both English and Spanish in schools. Cesar Chavez worked in California to negotiate more rights for migrant workers.

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In 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established to regulate pollution and create standards for clean air and water.

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The National Organization for Women (NOW) picketed the White House in support of pro-choice laws that would make abortion legal. In 1973, the Supreme Court legalized abortion (Roe v. Wade).

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The Biological Weapons Convention, or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, is a disarmament treaty that effectively bans biological and toxin weapons by prohibiting their development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use.

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The US, Soviet Union and 92 other nations sign the Seabed Treaty, banning the testing or deployment of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.

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The Pentagon Papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks—none of which were reported in the mainstream media.

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The anti-war movement did force the United States to sign a peace treaty, withdraw its remaining forces, and end the draft in early 1973. Throughout a decade of organizing, anti-war activists used a variety of tactics to shift public opinion and ultimately alter the actions of political leaders.

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In the spring of 1975 the North Vietnamese army conquered all of South Vietnam, and the following year North and South were formally united in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution lowered the minimum voting age in the United States from 21 to 18. The United States Congress approved the amendment on March 23, 1971, and sent it to the states to be ratified.

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The Treaty between Germany and the USSR, signed in Moscow on 12 August 1970, launched German policy vis-à-vis Eastern Europe , paving the way for the normalisation of diplomatic relations and confirming the peaceful territorial status quo between the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany

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The People's Peace Treaty was developed in December 1970, by representatives of United States and Vietnamese student organizations. The treaty was part of a collaborative effort to end the Vietnam War by outlining a number of principles with which all sides could agree.

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U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation of schools.

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U.S. President Richard Nixon orders an invasion of Cambodia, widening the war in Vietnam. In protest, millions march across the U.S. University campuses are shut down by student strikes. Four protestors at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guard troops.

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Explorer 1, which launched in January 31, 1958, was the United States' first successful satellite launch and provided the first data ever transmitted from Space. That data came from a cosmic ray detector on board the satellite invented by physicist James Van Allen.

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A period in the United States history when everyone was so caught up in containment of communism, and investigated people within their community for communism. Even people in the government were suspected of being communist spies.

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The civil rights movement in the United States was a decades-long campaign by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States.

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Truman made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan, helped rebuild postwar Europe, worked to contain communism and led the United States into the Korean War

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They had been sent to help fight in the south

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They had sent them to help fight in the war

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They had been sent out to Korea as advisors first to help train the south korean soliders

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The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south.

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the NAACP's mission was and is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.

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The Little Rock Nine became an integral part of the fight for equal opportunity in American education when they dared to challenge public school segregation by enrolling at the all-white Central High School in 1957

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Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) - This was the seminal case in which the Court declared that states could no longer maintain or establish laws allowing separate schools for black and white students.

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To try to win back audiences from TV, the movie industry promoted the color, better sound, big screens and emotional power of the theatre experience, even to the point of inventing new formats like "Cinerama," "Cinemascope" and – thankfully, briefly – 3-D and "Aroma-Rama."

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During this time rock In' roll became a dividing and uniting force. It pitted parents, the mass media, and the government against teenagers, and at the same time helped erode some of the prejudices felt towards African Americans.

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television superseded radio as the most popular broadcast medium, and commercial radio programming shifted to narrower formats of news, talk, sports and music. Religious broadcasters, listener-supported public radio and college stations provide their own distinctive formats.

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In the 1950s, the sale of TV sets and the boom in programming made TV America's favorite source of entertainment.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed revisions to rules governing proxy access, allowing shareholders greater role in the nomination of directors. Widely opposed by business, the changes were not adopted.

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NATO's essential and enduring purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of all its members by political and military means. Collective defence is at the heart of the Alliance and creates a spirit of solidarity and cohesion among its members

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A baby boom is a period marked by a significant increase of birth rate. This demographic phenomenon is usually ascribed within certain geographical bounds of defined national and cultural populations.

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The Taft-Hartley Act is a 1947 U.S. federal law that extended and modified the 1935 Wagner Act. It prohibits certain union practices and requires disclosure of certain financial and political activities by unions.

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many people lived in suburbans or, areas that are close to the cities. They were made for people that worked in the cities but maybe didn't want to necessarily live in the city. Suburbs were mostly outside the city limits with roads leading to the city.

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Women were getting more rights like voting and even working '"manly" jobs since the men were fighting in the war.. they had jobs like  factories producing munitions, building ships, aeroplanes, in the auxiliary services as air-raid wardens, fire officers ect.

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To keep commuism from taking all of Berlin, the US airlifted food materials, suppilies into West Berlin

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Trying to to the sppreading of communism . With this the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctorine set up the idea of rebuilding Europe so it isnt communist

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Gave money to Western Europe in order to rebuild. Prevents the spread of communism