2009-10.1.2.K

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Adam Dorzinski
Dear John and Abigail Adams:

The Mid 20th Century America is significantly different than the America you have known, John and Abigail. Economic development and industrialization is the major force behind the vast differences between the world you lived in and the world of the Mid 20th Century. Many technological advances had been made during this time period, such as communication/information, transportation, and medical technologies. The United States gained increasing world influence and power in the twentieth century than it ever had before. After the World Wars Europe lost much of its long held world power while the Western world enjoyed post-World War II economic boom. The United States in the Mid 20th Century now exerts a strong influence over foreign affairs. American culture also expanded during this time period. Our new cultural lifestyle of Hollywood, rock and roll, fast food, and industrialization spread across the world. America of the Mid 20th century is significantly different than the America you have lived in John and Abigail Adams. Changes in technology and culture have re-shaped your world into a totally different America then you remember. This project will offer and even closer look of the Mid 20th Century America in details displaying how much the United States of America has changed.

We have created a snapshot of our generation, 1955 to 1989, to best illustrate our generation today. We will be describing in detail:

1. A Ford/Carter Primer

2. 10 Milestone Events
 * Army- McCarthy hearings (1954)
 * Montgomery bus boycott- Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1955)
 * Peace Corps established (1961)
 * Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
 * Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)
 * John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)
 * Moon Landing- Neil Armstrong on Apollo II (1969)
 * Wars Powers Act (1973)
 * South Vietnam falls to Communism (1975)
 * Ronald Reagan elected president ( 1980)

3. Mid 20th Century Headlines
 * National Defense Education Act
 * Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-In Greensboro, NC
 * Selma to Montgomery, Alabama Civil Rights March
 * 25th Amendment Presidential Succession
 * Columbia University Student Demonstrations
 * Sharon Tate Murders, Charles Manson and Followers Convicted
 * Pentagon Papers
 * Nixon Resigns
 * Two Assassination Attempts on President Ford
 * Air Traffic Controllers Strike

4. Maps
 * The United States of America
 * Europe
 * Asia

5. Historical Portraits
 * Albert Einstein
 * Frank Lloyd Wright
 * Billie Holiday
 * Jimi Hendrix
 * Martin Luther King Jr.
 * Frank Sinatra
 * Helen Keller
 * Edwin Hubble
 * Oskar Schindler
 * John Lennon
 * Pope John Paul II
 * Mother Teresa
 * Pablo Picasso
 * Robert Frost
 * Woody Guthrie

6. Music of the Mid 20th Century
 * Year of 1956​

7. Important Obituaries of the Mid 20th Century
 * James Dean
 * J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Janis Joplin
 * Edward R. Murrow