1. 1960's
1.1. April 1, 1960: U.S. Census reports an 18.9% population increase since the 1950's
1.2. May 9, 1960: "The Pill" becomes available as a means of birth control for women
1.3. June 25, 1962: Addiction is ruled as a disease rather than a crime in The U.S. Supreme Court
1.4. The Community Mental Health Act of 1963: beginning of deinstitutionalization movement
1.5. 1964: The first U.S. General Surgeon Warning was issued regarding the dangers of smoking.
1.6. 1965: President Johnson signs the Medicare and Medicaid programs into law, providing millions of Americans with affordable health insurance
1.7. January 15, 1967: The first Super Bowl takes place in Los Angeles between the Green Bay Packers and Kansas City Chiefs. 51 million people tuned in via television
1.8. November 21, 1969: The Internet began its initial development by the Advanced Research Projects Agency at the U.S. Department of Defense
2. 1950s
2.1. Mcdonalds starts to expand and become more worldwide
2.2. suburban boom --> people continued to move into suburb living
2.3. 1955- Polio Vaccine
2.4. 1955-Rosa parks incites Montgomery bus boycott
2.5. 1955- Warsaw pact
2.6. 1956- Elvis Presley becomes popular and tv remote invented
2.7. 1957- civil rights act of 1957 --> voting rights bill
2.8. 1957 - first commercial nuclear power plant
2.9. 1957- Little rock Arkansas school desegregation
2.10. 1958- Explorer 1, the first American satellite is launched
2.11. 1959- Color TV
2.12. 1959- Alaska and Hawaii acquired
3. by Sabrina Rebuck, Liz Lipkovitz, Madalynn Seymour, Emily Woolf, Kate Kowalyshen, and Sarah Long
4. 2000- Present
4.1. 2000
4.1.1. September 11th, 2000; Attack on World Trade Center & Pentagon
4.2. 2003
4.2.1. Human Genome Project Completed
4.2.2. Gulf War II
4.2.3. Most significant economic recession since the Great Depression
4.2.4. Suddam Hussein is captured
4.3. 2005
4.3.1. Rosa Parks passes away
4.3.2. Hurricane Katrina
4.4. 2006
4.4.1. Social Media networking; Facebook, Twitter, & Myspace were developed
4.5. 2009
4.5.1. Global pandemic of Swine Flu
4.6. 2010
4.6.1. Obama signs the Affordable Care Act
4.7. 2011
4.7.1. Final shuttle of the NASA space shuttle program
4.8. 2013
4.8.1. Cornell University: first use of 3D printer to grow a living ear
4.9. 2014
4.9.1. Affordable Care Act goes into affect
4.10. 2015
4.10.1. Over 2/3 of Americans own a smartphone
4.10.2. US supreme court allows Same-Sex marriage
4.10.3. US and Cuba return to full diplomatic relations
4.11. 2016
4.11.1. Terrorist attack in Orlando, FL
4.12. Present
4.12.1. Increase in school shootings
4.12.2. Affordable Care Act is modified
4.12.3. Seattle bans plastic straws & utensils
5. 1980's
5.1. 1980
5.1.1. United States census reveals an 11.4% increase since 1970's
5.2. 1981
5.2.1. Reagan was elected President
5.2.2. Iranian hostage crisis ended
5.3. 1982
5.3.1. Highest unemployment rate since 1940's (10.4%)
5.4. 1986
5.4.1. Martin Luther King Day is observed for the first time as a federal holoday
5.5. 1987
5.5.1. Black Monday: Stock market dropped 22.6% in one day
5.5.2. United States and Soviet Union sign the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
5.6. 1989
5.6.1. Unemployment rate drops to 5.3%
5.6.2. Berlin Wall is torn down
5.6.3. President George H. W. Bush elected president