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American History 8

1947 - 1960

EventAnswerEventAnswerEventAnswer
Secretary of State who orchestrated plan for European recovery after WWII Marshall becomes first black in professional baseball Robinson reverses many gains made by workers Taft-Hartley Act
coined the term "Cold War" Baruch earned Pulitzer Prize for All the King's Men Warren publishes Crusade in Europe Eisenhower
breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 aircraft Yeager blacklisted for alleged sympathies with Communism 10 Hollywood people top boooks published in 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire (Willilams) The Naked and the Dead (Mailer)
Won first Tony for Actor Ferrar US must "support free peoples who a re resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures." The Truman Doctrine new country US supported Israel
Michener fiction that won pulitzer in 1948 Tales of the South Pacific lead to teh US led Berlin airlift USSR blockade of Berlin became president of Columbia University Eisenhower
first elected woman senatore Smith of Maine won 1948 election, defeating Dewey, Thurmond and Wallace Truman Truman's VP Barkley
erroneous headline in 1948 election Dewey Defeats Truman accused of passing documents to Whitaker Chamers via a pumpkin patch in Maryland Hiss indicted for perjury Hiss
vehicle by which Nixon becomes nationally known Hiss case won 1948 Nobel Prize in literature Eliot convicted of treason for radio broadcasts on behalf of Japanese during WWII Tokyo Rose
created by the ratification of the North Atlantic Treaty NATO won Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 Miller's Death of a Salesman Won 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature Faulkner
North Korean forces invade across the 38th parallel beginning... the Korean War named commander of the UN forces in Korea MacArthur whose forces fight at Inchon and re-capture Seoul and take Pyongyang UN forces
begins witch hunt for Communists in US government and private life with well-circulated lists of "subversives" McCarthy awarded Nobel Prize for his efforts at mediating between Israel & Arab States Bunche first Black American to win Nobel Prize Bunche
tried to assassinate Truman outside Blair House in DC two Puerto Rican nationalists Truman recalled him as head of UN forces MacArthur "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away" MacArthur
sentenced to death for selling atomic secrets to the USSR Rosenbergs limits president to two terms 22nd Amendements heads Senate Crime Investigation Committee into organized crime Kefauver
publishes Catcher in the Rye Salinger where US detonates first hydrogen bom Eniwetok Atoll signed at Panmunjon, Truce between UN and North Korea
hits "shot heard round the world" in National League playoffs Thomson wins the Pulitzer Prize for "The Caine Mutiny" Wouk staves off attempts to throw him off Republican VP nomination with famed "Checkers" spech Nixon
defeats Stevenson to become 34th US President Eisenhower Eisenhower's VP Nixon wins Pulizer Prize for "The Old Man and the Sea" Hemingway
wins Nobel Peace Prize for "The Marshall Plan" Marshall cites potential of "The Domino Effect" of Asian nations falling under the aegis of Communism Eisenhower Defeated at Dien Bien Phu leading to increased US presence in French Indochina French
licenses vaccine against poliomyelitis Salk fire 25 shots from teh spectators' gallery of House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen Puerto Rican nationalists wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Spirit of St. Louis" Lindbergh
authorizes establishment of US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Eisenhower First atomic-powered submarine Nautilus separate but equal is unconstitutional Brown v Board of Education
argues case for Brown Thurgood Marshall voted to condemn McCarthy for his witch-hunt tactics Senate wins Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 Hemingway
Won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Pauling Eight nations established this SEATO Sent military to South Vietnam US
Ushered in Rock and Roll Bill Haley and the Comets Investigated the nature if the chemical bond Pauling South Eastern Asian Treaty Organization SEATO
"Rock Around the Clock" Bill Haley and the Comets Took seat at the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama Parks began Montgomery Bus Boycott Parks
formed when the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge AFL-CIO president of the AFL-CIO Meany Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Williams
policy of following a dangerous course of action that could lead to war in the attempt to preserve peach policy of Brinksmanship novel about the notorious Confederate CIvil War prison; won Pulitzer for Fiction Kantor The DIary of Ann Frank; won Pulitzer for Drama Goodrich and Hackett
Top musical on Broadway in 1956; My Fair Lady written by Shaw musical version of Pygmalion My Fair Lady sinks off Nantucket after colliding with the Swedish vessel Stockholm; 50 die Andrea Doria
marries Prince Ranier III of Monaco Grace Kelly esbalishes himself as the King of Rock and Roll with hits like "Don't be Cruel" "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Blue Suede Shoes" Presley winds second term in office over Stevenson Eisenhower
pitches a perfect game in 1956 World Series as Yankees win over Dodgers Larsen first Black female to win Winbledon Tennis title Gibson wins Pulitzer Prize for history for "Profiles in Courage" JFK
drama Pulitzer in 1957 for Long Day's Journey Into Night O'Neill orders 10,000 Arkansas National Guardsmen inot LIttle Rock to protect blacks in integration of Central High School; Eisenhouser tries to stop integration Governor Faubus
West Side Story Bernstein & Sondheim leads to US frenzy to outpace the Soviests in advanced technology Soviet launch of Sputnik sends 5,000 US tropps into Lebanon Eisenhower
goes from Alaska to Norway under the Polar Ice Cap in under four days Nautilus first American satellite Explorer I Zone of radiation around earth is discovered by US satellites and is named for Van Allen
Sandburg addresses Congress on this 150th anniversary of Lincoln's birth die in an airplane crash in Iowa in 1959 Buddy Holly, Big Bopper & Richie Valens help open the St. Lawrence Seaway Queen Elizabeth & Eisenhower
bans DH Lawrence's Lady Catterly's Lover from postal system as too obscene US Postmaster have famous Moscow "Kitchen Debate" Nixon & Khruschev biggest box office smash of year ans win eleven Academy Awards in 1960 Ben-Hur
based on novel by Union General Lew Wallace Ben-Hur enters Union as 49th Sate Alaska 50th state Hawaii
first nuclear-powered merchant ship The Savannah circumnavigates teh globe under water Triton proposed Paris summit between them is scrapped Eisenhower & Khruschev
why summit is scrapped Powers is shot down over the USSR in an American U2 spy plane becomes the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise wins Gold Medal in boxing at Rome Summer Olympics Cassius Clay
square off in the first televised presidential debate JFK & Nixon 35th president & first Roman Catholic President JFK JFK's VP Johnson
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