World in
Uncertain Times: 1950 -- Present
Toward a Post-Industrial World: Living in a Global Age
Development of Computers
IBM website’s description and links about IBM’s major advances in computers for decade: 1950-60
http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/history/decade_1950.html
“IBM’s Empire Takes Hold; Flashback 1953” on CNN’s Computer World Flashback webpages, provides information and links about IBM’s early dominance in the computer field:
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/30/1953.idg/
Environment, Natural Resources
U.S. Dept. of the Interior website
Energy Resources Program website, with information on oil and gas reserves in
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency “Water for Kids” webpages, with links to numerous websites with information about water resources, quality and conservation:
http://www.epa.gov/ow/kids/waterforkids.html
Containment and Consensus: 1945 -- 1960
Containment of Communism
Eisenhower—Brief description of his foreign policies, with links, on PBS’ American Experience: “The Presidents” companion website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/nf/record/eisen/eisenfp.html
Eisenhower’s “Aggressive Foreign Policies” described in webpages relating to PBS’ American Experience: “The Presidents”:
http://www.americanpresident.org/kotrain/courses/DE/DE_In_Brief.htm
Hungarian Revolution (against Soviet control), 1956 – Brief description, at OnWar.com webpages of Dupuy Institute:
http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/hotel/hungary1956.htm
NASA website’s Sputnik pages: Description
of how the launch of this first earth-orbiting satellite by the
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/sputnik/
Castro’s Revolution in
Brief description, at OnWar.com webpages of Dupuy Institute:
http://www.onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr55/fcuba1956.htm
Civil Rights for African-Americans: Court cases and Civil Disobedience:
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) -- U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down Kansas and other states’ laws requiring segregated (separate) public schools for Negro children, as a violation of Equal Protection of the Law under the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
CompuLEGAL analysis of Brown case on Project LEGAL webpages:
http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/scales/brown.html
Text of official Brown
Court Opinion, on
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/name.htm
PBS “American Experience” companion webpages: “On the Front Lines with the Little Rock 9” describe the 1957 integration of one southern high school:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kids/civilrights/features_school.html
Civil Rights Act of 1957, establishing the Commission on Civil Rights -- Text of the Act on MultiEducator, Inc. website:
http://www.multied.com/documents/CivilRigths57.html
“By Popular Demand-- Jackie Robinson and other Baseball Highlights,” links to timeline and documents in Library of Congress’ “American Memory” collection:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/jrhtml/jrhome.html
People, Prosperity, and Movement
“Modern Era” section of “American’s Story” on Library of Congress website, includes description of major events during the 1950’s and links to other information about important events and people on this site:
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/modern
Photos of
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mdbquery.html
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December, 2002