1950-54
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1950-54
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1950
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Great Brinks Robbery
$2.7 Million in Cash
"The Perfect Robbery". Robbers watched the Brinks truck depot for 18 months. The broke in early and changed the cylinders of the locks and stole copies of the architectural plans for the building. They put everything back in place though and went unnoticed though. They stole over $2.7 million in cash and destroyed the getaway truck - cutting it in pieces and dumping it in the local landfill. Joseph O'Keefe gets pinched for other robbery charges and wants his cut of the robbery before the statute of limitations ran out in 6 years. Anthony Pino and others order a hit on O'Keefe which fails and facing the FBI on one side and the mob on the other, O'Keefe ratted out the whole gang.
Kim Il-Sung
- Communist guerrilla fighter vs Japanese
- Fled to Soviet Union and became a major in their army
- Spoke very little Korean
- Ordered the invasion of the South without Russian or Chinese approval
- Remained Premier until his death in 1994
Photo by yeowatzup
Syngman Rhee
- Politician who spoke English
- Brutal authoritarian
- Salary $37.50/month ???
- Hundreds of thousands of "ghost soldiers"
- Supported MacArthur and refused to sign the Armistice
Photo by expertinfantry
38th Parallel
Over 10,000 killed in action before the war started
Photo by SSAVE w/ over 9 MILLION views THX
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By November 1950, UN Troops had pushed the N Koreans to the Yalu River
Jet "Dog Fights"
Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqvy1oj4gz8
Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsGREOUphOM
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US Pays for French Colonial War
The US will pay up to 80%
Guys and Dolls
"Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat"
Abstract Expressionists
Willem de Kooning Woman I
Joseph McCarthy
"I have here a list of 205 Communists who have infiltrated the State Dept."
Muddy Waters
Chicago Blues "Rollin Stone"
TV in 1950
Kids watch as much TV as they spend in school (27hrs)
150 Million in US Census
Photo by Ethan Hoover
Declaration of Conscience
- The Right to Criticize
- The Right to Hold Unpopular Beliefs
- The Right to Protest
- The Right of Independent thought.
Atomic Tests
Nevada is rattled! Radiation in the East
1951
Rocket 88
Jackie Brensten - 1st Rock & Roll Song
Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0mhgyTgxtw
Link to Video: http://www.youtube.com/v/TPLS2i9dSy0
Rosenberg Trial
Spies or victims?
1st Nuclear Reactor
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The Catcher in the Rye
Story of an alienated adolescent - Holden Caulfield
Iranian Premier, Razmara Assassinated
Mosadegh nationalizes British Oil
1952
Batista Returns to Power
Cuban Dictator 1952-59 (Island of Sin)
First Public Transexual
Christine Jorgensen returns from Denmark after sex-change surgery
London Smog
There's no such thing as "Clean Coal"
Ike runs as a Republican & WINS!
Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sk_snD8yrQ
Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmCDaXeDRI4
King George VI Dies
Long live Queen Elizabeth II
John F. Kennedy
Becomes Senator Kennedy
1953
Photo by Don McCullough
CIA Coup Coup d'Etat
Muhammad Mussadegh in Iran is overthrown
Polio Vaccine Created
Dr. Jonas Salk
1954
USS Nautilus
1st Nuclear Submarine
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Separate but equal dies
Brown v. Board
- Separate but equal established by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- NAACP's attorney, Thurgood Marshall argued that 11 year old Linda Brown should be allowed to attend a nearby all-white school, rather than cross a railroad yard to take a bus to a black school.
Brown v Board cont.
- Marshall argued not only were buildings and supplies inferior in black schools, but Linda and other black children suffered from lowered self-esteem and a lack of ordinary social opportunities
The Warren Court ruled 9-0 to end Separate but equal
Brown v Board Aftermath
- Brown II - "with all deliberate speed"
- Massive Resistance - Harry Byrd
- White Flight from cities to the suburbs & private schools
Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien's Trilogy is released
Link to Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXC-jJhFaUI
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Photo by Stuck in Customs
CIA Coup #2
- Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman seized 234,000 acres from US based United Fruit Company
- 400 CIA backed Guatemalan exiles invaded
- CIA misinformation made the situation seem unwinnable for the government troops
- Within 2 weeks Arbenz resigned
DiMaggio and Monroe
New Color TV's
12.5 inch for $1,110
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Dien Bien Phu
- 11/29/1953 French forces parachuted into Viet Minh territory to control the valley.
- French build an airstrip for supplies
- Viet Minh general Giap begins first major build-up of communist forces to surround the French troops
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Dien Bien Phu
- By 3/15/1954, the Viet Minh begin their attack
- 55 days later the French position is overrun by the Viet Minh
- After this battle, the French have had enough!
