Denver South High School - Johnny Reb Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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1918 Unlike the antiwar protests of the sixties and seventies, protests against World War II were never permitted. After World War I, a large economic boom swept all of America. The number of Americans investing in the stock market was the largest it had ever been. It was at this point that the stock market plunged. On October 24, 1929, 1.5 mil- lion people lost thirty million dollars, equal to one-third of the Gross National Product. By 1935, with the help of a major drought, 4,004 banks had closed and unemployment had reached twenty-f ive per cent. After the first year of financial stagnation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President. The support for his New Deal was great, as evidenced by his reelection in 1936 by the largest proportion of electoral votes in history up to that time. Not only did he push to repeal the Prohib- ition Amendment, but his employment programs greatly reduced unemployment and paved the way for the modern welfare state. The economy was just getting back on its feet when Pearl Har- bor was attacked on December 7, 1941. Two years before, Navy Secretary Frank Knox had predicted a possible surprise attack on Pearl Harbor? Within two hours after the attack, the Pacific Fleet had been crippled, 347 planes had been destroyed and 2,403 citizens had been killed. This was the beginning of fighting for Ameri- cans until shortly after the atomic bombs were dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. A year before the atomic bombs were drop- ped, a Harvard instructor named Howard Aiken operated the first computer. It was fifty feet long, with five hundred miles of wire. Although this early computer was slow, its development shows how far technology increased during World War II. This is the launching of the USS Denver on April 4, 1942.

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The landing of man on the moon in 1969 has been one of the most important events in this century. Although at the end of World War ll much of Europe was concerned with rebuilding its destruction, the United States was busy improv- ing everyday life. The barriers between the races began to be eliminated when jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team in 1947. Barriers were further downed in 1955 when Dr. Martin Luther King,jr. led a boycott against the city bus company in Montgomery, Alabama. This began a decade of nonviolent protest that led to the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Improvement in life also came about in the health field with such discoveries as-a vaccine against polio in 1954. . 4 4 A . ' Aa -, ..Wf:0-ef' my .'.,'.c '1 4... . ., by A'. niggas? tr-QM- Q A . TW: . 19-HJ A ' A --of ',,,.. . -0- iffy.-QV, . ' N fu-'fe' ,Q ' K -WSW -Q -' s'::.-v,4x-. sg, ss' ,. :1:' Xi ffftf- .c -Q A my ,, my U S A lf Dana Hell xg? -. was-I ASQ -' l'f S We were all involved in the death of john Kennedy . . . we mourned a man who had become the pride of the nation. -Martin Luther King,jr. 1945-1975 The development of nuclear power caused the greatest change in international diplomacy since World War II.