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Baby Boom

1946

Baby Boom

President Truman proclaims end of World War II (combat ended in 1945 but the hostilities were considered over once war crime trials in 1946 ended)

1947

The V-2 rocket launched into space

1948

1

Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional

1949

2

President Truman establishes rocket test range at Cape Canaveral, Florida

1950

3

President Truman orders development of the hydrogen bomb in response to detonation of Soviet Union’s first atomic bomb in 1949. He sends U.S. military advisors to Vietnam to aid French forces

1951

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and sentenced to death

1952

Christine Jorgensen, a transsexual woman in Denmark, becomes the recipient of the first successful sexual reassignment operation

1954

President Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam

1957

President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a stroke

1958

A 7,600-pound hydrogen bomb is lost in the waters off Savannah, Georgia

1960

John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th President of The United States

1961

Astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space

1963

President John F. Kennedy promises a Civil Rights Bill

1964

China becomes fifth nuclear power

1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes in the U.S. Senate 73-2

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