1950s

During the 1950’s rooms were filled with huge computer devices, they were able to read punch cards or magnetic tapes and at this stage no network coverage between computers was available. Somehow they had to connect these computers because they ran on different systems at the same time. 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, it was the first ever man-made satellite, this all happened during the peak time of the Cold War. President D. D. Eisenhower invented the ARPANET ( Advanced Research

When you think of a lunch counter you rarely think of a sign hanging on top saying “whites only”but yet you think of a mixture of races speaking and laughing together. In 1950’s it was all different, there was a sign...and you rarely saw blacks and whites talking… back then it was segregation. In February 1st, 1960 four black freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond(Greensboro four), took a seats at the segregated lunch

Global warming came about in the 1950's. Global warming is a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants (). It was not until 1975 that the temperature begin to rise (). In the eighteen hundreds through the time they speed up the Greenhouse emissions. While they bettered the sanitation, speed up growth populations. In the nineteen hundreds

a fluctuating topic. With different trends surfacing on a daily basis and changes happening all the time. How does one become a stylish and sophisticated woman in the 1950s? Well, it’s actually quite simple. There are just a few rules one must follow to achieve a respectable level of stylish sophistication. In many ways, the 1950s took a big step back, especially for women. During World War II while the men were away, women began to gain an independence that was rare before the war. They left their

How did Elizabeth Eckford stay at Central High after all the things people did to her? In the 1950’s, the United State Supreme Court ruled that all schools must be integrated, thus ending the segregation of schools in the Southern States. Elizabeth was one of the nine African American students to be the first to attend Central High in Little Rock Arkansas. It had been an all-white school up to this point. Many people were

Important key people, events, and developments between the time period 1950-1975 paved the way that African Americans can equal rights today. Their fight for equality gained powerful force, and this struggle for equal rights is recognized as the Civil Rights Movement. In this time groups, individuals, and the government have used various methods to deal with the inequality faced. While everyone was thought to have equal rights, African Americans were denied this opportunity. African Americans were

The modern form of Pop Music was created in the 1950’s. It wasn’t until the first top twenty that pop music charts came into existence. Pop music was essentially developed from rock and roll music. Although, the term pop music first became a thing in the middle of the 1920’s. Pop was basically short for popular or it meant that the music had a popular appeal. Many genres of music today could be considered as pop music including blues, folk, rock, hip-hop, R&B, dance, electronic, country, and many

big part of the fantastic sitcoms as it was incorporated into the story by providing the viewers a sense of gender rolls, class and race. “Despite the glorification of the housewife’s role, women joined the labor force at significant rates in the 1950s. In particular, the number of married female workers rose substantially” (From domestic space to outer space, Lynn Spigel, pg.208), to embrace on this idea. Fantastic sitcoms introduced female characters to invert

The changes in how different psychological processes were identified and understood in the 1950s and 1960s is what many refer to as the “cognitive revolution.” The introduction of research in problems that have already been met - for instance, studying problems of memory and decision making - led to the new approach of theorizing. The cognitive revolution focused on just a couple of key concepts. One idea that stemmed during the cognitive revolution is that the science of psychology cannot direct

behind them and start anew. The marriage rate started to skyrocket almost immediately after the war was over, resulting in an increase in the birth rate as well. This increase did not see a decline until more than a decade later. By the end of the 1950s, the birth rate of the United States had hit an unprecedented high, as more than 50 million new births were documented. There are