Layla's personal timeline, a place to collect and share things from Layla's life.
Created by holmal on Oct 20, 2010
Last updated: 03/16/11 at 07:40 PM
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The Paris summit between Soviet premier Khrushchev and President Eisenhower is canceled after the Soviets shoot down a US spy plane.
Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev visits the US.
Congress establishes NASA
Congress Establishes the National Aeronautics and Science administration(NASA).
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first artifical satellite, into orbit around Earth.
Eygpt seizes the Suez Canal after the US withdraws support for an Eygtptian dam project on the Nile River.
Robert Rauschbergs Bed makes an important contribution to American Art .
Thee CIA led forces bombed the capital in June 1954 and installed a new pro-US government, which quickly reversed Arbenz's reform program.
Playwright author Miller writes The Crucible, in which he compares McCarthism to the Salem which trails.
Afer 21 months of operation by federal troops, the US government returns the country's railroads to private control.
After 21 months of operation by federal troops, the US government returns the country's railroads to private control.
Federal Civil Defense Administration established
Korean war begins.
Soviets explode first atomic bomb
Communist takeover in Czechoslovakia
The Cold War discusses the period within the Cold War from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the Korean War in 1953. The Cold War began almost immediately following World War II and lasted through most of the rest of the twentieth century.
Crisis in Iran sparked by Soviet attempt to include parts of Iran in an 'autonomous' Azerbaijani Republic. Military confrontation between Americans and Soviets threatened.
Mussolini killed and Hitler commits suicide.
in november, rationing of all food items except sugar ends in the united states.
in november, rationing of all food items except sugar ends in the united states.
in november, rationing of all food items except sugar ends in the united states.
the unites states drops atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki
Theinternational bank of reconstruction, or World Bank, is established in July.
On the morning of june 6, some of 176,000 Allied troops storm the beaches of Normandy, France.
An assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
Presidnet Roosevelt, british prime minister Winston Churchill, and soviet premeir Joseph Stalin meet at the tehran conference.
Chicago's first subway opens.
Italy surrenders, then declares war on Germany.
Italy surrenders, then declares war on Germany.
100,000 Japanese-Americans interred in camps
The Holocaust begins.
The U.S. mint begins issuing pennies made of zinc- coated stele to conserve copper for weapons production.
Physicists Glenn Seaborg and Edwin McMillian isolate the element plutonium,
German warship Bismark sunk.
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.
Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
The London Blitz begins.
Nazi Germany invades Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
More than 17 percent of the anerican workforce isinempolyed. The Arts- John Strinbecks The Grapes of Wrath is published.. Gone with the wind becomes the most popular film of the 1930's
-The year-long recession makes itself felt: the GNP falls 4.5 percent, and unemployment rises to 19.0 percent. -Science and technology- The Biro brothes invent the ballpoint pen.
A recession sets back recovery from the Great Depression The German airship Hidenburg explodes, killing 36 people.
-American industries begin to experience large scale sit down strikes. -Daily Life- Life Magazine begins publication.
-Economic recovery continues: the GNP grows another 8.1 percent, and unemployment falls to 20.1 percent. -Congress passes the Social Security Act.
The droubt caused the dirt to dry up, so it turned it to dust and when a big gust of wind came it was like a wall of water. It was called the dust bowl.
A third banking panic occurs in March. Roosevelt declares a Bank Holiday; closes financial institutions to stop a run on banks.
Over 13 million Americans have lost their jobs since 1929.
The GNP falls another 8.5 percent; unemployment rises to 15.9 percent.
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