MACRO
1914-1918 - 1st World War
1917 - US involvement in the War
1920-1933 - Prohibition
1929 - Wall Street Crash
1933-1937 - New Deal (Frank D. Roosevelt)
1939-1945 - 2nd World War
1941 - US enters 2nd World War (Pearl Harbor)
1942 - beginning of Manhattan Project
1945, August - atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1950-1956 - McCarthyism (Eisenhower) and "Cold War"
1955-1968 - Civil Rights Movement
1961-1963 - JFK
+/- 1960-1973 - Vietnam War
Mass Media
turn of the century: Sunday funnies develop, bringing on Sunday comic supplements (Yellow Kid by Richard Outcault in 1895; Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay in 1905)
1920s to 1950s - pulp fiction: e. g. Black Mask magazine (1920-1951) and Astounding Stories (sci-fi; 1930s and still running)
1926 - National Broadcasting System begins regular radio broadcasting
1931-1968 - Hays Code
1938: creation of Superman and beginning of the Golden Age of Comic Books
1939 - Radio Corporation of America demonstrates television at New York World's Fair
1941-5 - Television technology diverted to radar
1940s-1950s - Classic period of American film noir
mid 1950s - television sets enter family homes (movie attendance dropped, radio changed its focus to recorded music, the print press had to specialize)
1954-2000s - Comics Code Authority
1914-1918 - 1st World War
1917 - US involvement in the War
1920-1933 - Prohibition
1929 - Wall Street Crash
1933-1937 - New Deal (Frank D. Roosevelt)
1939-1945 - 2nd World War
1941 - US enters 2nd World War (Pearl Harbor)
1942 - beginning of Manhattan Project
1945, August - atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1950-1956 - McCarthyism (Eisenhower) and "Cold War"
1955-1968 - Civil Rights Movement
1961-1963 - JFK
+/- 1960-1973 - Vietnam War
Mass Media
turn of the century: Sunday funnies develop, bringing on Sunday comic supplements (Yellow Kid by Richard Outcault in 1895; Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay in 1905)
1920s to 1950s - pulp fiction: e. g. Black Mask magazine (1920-1951) and Astounding Stories (sci-fi; 1930s and still running)
1926 - National Broadcasting System begins regular radio broadcasting
1931-1968 - Hays Code
1938: creation of Superman and beginning of the Golden Age of Comic Books
1939 - Radio Corporation of America demonstrates television at New York World's Fair
1941-5 - Television technology diverted to radar
1940s-1950s - Classic period of American film noir
mid 1950s - television sets enter family homes (movie attendance dropped, radio changed its focus to recorded music, the print press had to specialize)
1954-2000s - Comics Code Authority
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