Event between 1945-1953?
what is a good idea for my school project that needs to be in the date range of 1945-1953, it can be a movie, space exploration…. some people, tecnology , so just about anything… so please think. I am going to pick the best answer on the topic i choose.
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about 1 year ago
The Cold War
The Korean War
Truman’s defeat of Dewey –
to name a few
about 1 year ago
During the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After six months of intense strategic fire-bombing of 67 Japanese cities the Hirohito regime ignored an ultimatum given by the Potsdam Declaration. By executive order of President Harry S. Truman the U.S. dropped the nuclear weapon Little Boy on the city of Hiroshima on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed by the detonation of the bomb Fat Man over Nagasaki on August 9. These are the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare.
The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945, with roughly half of those deaths occurring on the days of the bombings. Amongst these, 15–20% died from injuries or the combined effects of flash burns, trauma, and radiation burns, compounded by illness, malnutrition and radiation sickness.Since then, more have died from leukemia (231 observed) and solid cancers (334 observed) attributed to exposure to radiation released by the bombs. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians.
Six days after the detonation over Nagasaki, on August 15, Japan announced its surrender to the Allied Powers, signing the Instrument of Surrender on September 2, officially ending the Pacific War and therefore World War II. Germany had signed its unavoidable Instrument of Surrender on May 7, ending the war in Europe. The bombings led, in part, to post-war Japan adopting Three Non-Nuclear Principles, forbidding the nation from nuclear armament.
about 1 year ago
The end of world war II with the dropping of the 2 atomic bombs, followed by the Cold War and the Soviet Union (also called USSR or Russia) getting the atomic bomb in 1949, and the development of the Hydrogen bomb, possibly in 1953 or a year later in 1954 (look it up)
Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union died in 1953, he had caused the Cold War by wanting to hold on to Germany and Eastern Europe.
Space exploration began with Sputnik in 1957, a little after your time line. But German born Werner Von Braun (not sure of the spelling), who had worked for Nazi Germany, would lead the US space program. It began with an artificial satellite 4 months after Russia’s Sputnik in early 1958. Von Braun had been in the US since the end of World War II and was working toward the space program.
Television had been developed before the war, but until the end of the war was not used much. In the late 40′s and early 50′s, most homes got a TV set. Shows like “I Love Lucy” which premiered in 1951 and others like Milton Berle’s show and “Your SHow of Shows” were popular in the early 50′s. TV was in black and white, not color at the time.
Fear of Communism was everywhere, it was as big as fear of terrorism or dislike or distrust of Muslim extremism is now. The worst thing somebody could be called was a Communist (or Commie) or “Pinko”, somebody who was accused of sympathizing with Communists but was not really ‘red’ or Communist. The McCarthy Hearings, which called people to testify in the Senate to prove they were not Communists started around 1953. Many were falsely accused of being Communists, often by people with a vendetta for some reason.
Movies were often Westerns, I think “High Noon’ was made in ’52 or 53 but I’m not sure. Science Fiction movies were starting to get popular, with aliens and space ships representing people’s fears about Russia and Communism. I don’t know exact dates or titles on some of them. But TV was really cutting into Movie sales.
about 1 year ago
Mount Everest was climbed for the first time.