1954- 1964Diana Lopez

June 16, 2008Period 4

All about ME!

•This is me through out my school years.• Look how

much I have grown up

•I was born on March 3, 1950 in Nebraska.

Age 4

Age 6

Age 9

Age 12

Age 13

Age 19

Age 15

Age 18

Age 20Age 21

Age 25

1954

•Josheph McCarthy discredited in Army-McCarthy hearings•The World Series is broadcasted in color for the first time. NY Giants defeat Cleveland (4-0)•Robert Jeffrey Ballet debuts•Sports illustrated is born•Brown vs. board of education•M & M Peanut Chocolate Candies were introduced•Minimum wage is $0.80- $1.20•Roger Bannister Breaks the Four-Minute Mile•The CIA organises the overthrow of Guatemala’s democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman (Operation PBSUCCESS) Elvis Presley makes

his first record

My mom

loves Elvis

My best friend and I used to play Medieval Castle Fort by Marx

John Travolta is born

I love you!!!

!

1954

My family is very rich so we had two cars, and a brand new refrigerator

1955•Rosa Parks boycotts the bus•Dr. Jonas Salk  developed a vaccine for  polio•AFL and CIO merge in America’s largest labor union•Warsaw Pact

Thanks to Dr. Salk, my sister had her second Christmas

We heard this over the radio

1956

Age 19

•Interstate Highway Act•United States Presidential Election

Mom and Dad vote for Eisenhower

My grandma

voting!

Everyone took this highway to go visit us at home

1956

•US refuses to support the Hungarian Revolution•Elvis Gyrates on Ed Sullivan’s Show•Grace Kelly Marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco•Suez Crisis•T.V. Remote Control Invented•Velcro Introduced

•Play-doh begins manufacturing

1957•Elvis is in concert

My flirty cousins all over Elvis after making his fist record

•Eisenhower Doctrine•Civil Right Act of 1957•Soviets launch Sputnik; “Space Race begins”•First nuclear power plant goes into service•Little Rock, Arkansas school desegregation•Dr.Seuss Publishes The Cat in the Hat

1958•National Defense Education Act•NASA formed•The Integrated circuit created•Boris Pasternak Refuses Nobel Prize•Chinese Leader Mao Zedong Launches the "Great Leap Forward"•Hope Diamond is Donated to the Smithsonian•Hula Hoops Become Popular•Lego Toy Bricks First Introduced•NASA Founded•Peace Symbol Created

1959

My sister and I used to play with the new

barbies.

•Cuban Revolution •Landrum-Griffin Act•Alaska and Hawaii become a states

•Castro Becomes Dictator of Cuba•International Treaty Makes Antarctica Scientific Preserve•Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev•The Sound of Music Opens on Broadway•U.S. Quiz Shows Found to be Fixed

My family was glad that Alaska became a state because we wanted to visit our family over there

My dad took us to see it when it was on Broadway

1960

My dream car

We got a TELEVISION!!!

A colleague I did during college

•Onion John by Joseph Krumgold

1960• Summer home

1961

Day Dress my aunt wore in the

60’s

•Adolf Eichmann on Trial for Role in Holocaust•Bay of Pigs Invasion•Berlin Wall Built•Peace Corps Founded•Soviets Launch First Man in Space•Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell 

My dad was into Politics so I learned about it a lot.

1962•Andy Warhol Exhibits His Campbell's Soup Can•Cuban Missile Crisis•First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall•Marilyn Monroe Found Dead•Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring•The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare

1963Makaha- original skateboard

JFK was assassinated in front of his wife

•Betty Friedan Publishes The Feminine Mystique•JFK Assassinated•Martin Luther King Jr. Makes His "I Have a Dream" Speech•A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleWojciechowska 

My dad traveled to see it

My bro learned how to skateboard

1964•It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville  •Beatles Become Popular in U.S.•Cassius Clay (a.k.a. Muhammad Ali) Becomes World Heavyweight Champion•Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S.•Hasbro Launches GI Joe Action Figure•Nelson Mandela Sentenced to Life in Prison•Warren Report on JFK's Assassination Issued

References• www.picasaweb.google.com/.../3C5tLk5uXDmDkczi9mRgqw • www.google.com/images•http://www.timewarptoys.com/ •http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade50.html •http://www.shs58.org/cars/ •http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html •http://objflicks.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm