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							Everything Else Since 1945: The
Good, The Bad, The Ugly
  World History/Geography
  Mr. H
 John, Paul, George, and Ringo
• In the 1960s, The
  Beatles exploded onto
  the Rock and Roll scene.
• They recorded dozens of
  hit songs and have
  influenced countless
  artists.
 Writers
• Toni Morrison wrote
  Beloved and Song of
  Solomon
• Maya Angelou and Laura
  Esquivel wrote poetry
  about growing up as a
  minority in America
 Space Race: US vs USSR
• Russian Yuri Gagarin
  was the first person to
  orbit the earth, followed
  by American Alan
  Shepard
• July 1969- Apollo 11
  landed on the moon and
  Neil Armstrong was the
  first to walk on the
  moon’s surface
 Computers
• The Electronic Numerical
  Integrator and Calculator
  (ENIAC) was the first
  modern computer (1946)
• In the 1990s, the internet
  was developed.
• Lasers were first
  invented in the 1960s
 What are you made out of?
• In 1953, scientist
  discovered the basic
  structure of DNA.
• In 1997, a sheep named
  Dolly was cloned.
• Within the near future,
  scientists hope to map
  the ENTIRE DNA
  STRUCTURE of human
  life.
 9/11/2001
• At 8:45am, a passenger
  plane crashed into the north
  tower of the WTC in NYC
• At 9:00am, a second plane
  crashed into the south tower.
• At 9:40am, a third plane
  crashed into the Pentagon
• A fourth plane crashed,
  probably on its way to the
  White House or Capital
 Death Toll
• 266 passengers were
  killed.
• 300 police, firefighters,
  and paramedics were
  killed.
• 2,500 civilians were
  killed in the attack
• Mayor Rudy Giuliani led
  the relief effort in NYC
 Aftermath
• Extremist Osama bin Laden
  took credit for the attacks.
• The US quickly sent troops to
  Afghanistan to find bin
  Laden.
• The US also invaded Iraq
  since they felt there was a
  connection.
• Hussein was captured.
• Bin Laden was killed May 1,
  2011, by a US led operation
  in Pakistan.