By the Decade

Meanwhile... Many important historical moments happened across the country & the rest of the world during this period.

1939 Considered the best year for films, Gone with the Wind is released and earns 10 Academy Awards. Wizard of Oz, the first technicolor, is also released.

1952 Queen Elizabeth II becomes monarch of the British Commonwealth and reigns for 70 years until her death in 2022

1940 PGA established Golf Hall of Fame.

1953 The DNA double helix is discovered.

1954 Supreme Court rules that segregation is illegal in

1945 World War II ends in Europe after Germany signs an unconditional surrender.

Brown vs. Board of Education decision 1955 Ray Kroc founded McDonald’s Vietnam War begins and lasts until 1975

1945 In August, the U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force surrender of Japan. 1947 The Cold War begins and lasts until 1991. 1950 The Korean War kills 3 million people, mostly civilians and lasts until 1953. 1951 The 22nd amendment is ratified limiting the President to two terms.

1956 Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show Interstate Highway System is formed under President Eisenhower

1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik and begins the Space Age/Race