This era in US history is filled with revolutions in communications, improvements in medical technology, weapons, and space technology, dramatic change, and globalization. New issues such as bioethics and arms limitations have arisen. This time period is the most important in having technologically shaped the world that we live in today.

1945-1949                    1950-1959                    1960-1969 

1970-1979                    1980-1989                    1990-1999

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QT1 BIBLIOGRAPHY

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FEW GOOD LINKS (many more on the site):

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). On This Day. 11 October 2003. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/21/newsid_2635000/
2635845.stm>

Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia. Space Shuttle. 2003. <http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761580679>

Oklahoma State Department of Health. Common Questions and Answers about HIV/AIDS and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 11 October 2003. <http://www.health.state.ok.us/program/hivstd/q%26a/qa1.html>

The Moschovitis Group. From Sputnik to the Arpanet. 11 October 2003. <http://www.historyoftheinternet.com/chap2.html>

Wikipedia. Word Processor. 12 Oct 2003. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor>

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PRIMARY SOURCES:

Berners-Lee, Tim. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web. New York: HarperBusiness; 2000.

"Chronology of KSC and KSC Related Events for 1981." NASA. Retrieved 18 Oct. 2003 <http://www-lib.ksc.nasa.gov/lib/archives/chronologies/1981CHRONO1.PDF.>

Farhangsara. Gas Laser. 13 October 2003. <http://www.farhangsara.com/
laser.htm>

Haukap, Anthony W. Project: Apollo 13 Ex Luna, Scientia (From the Moon, Knowledge). 12 Oct 2003. <http://209.145.176.7/~090/awh/as13.html#tv2>

Nuclearfiles.org. Statement by President Harry S. Truman on the Hydrogen Bomb, January 31 1950. 12 Oct 2003. <http://www.nuclearfiles.org/redocuments/1950/500131-hst-h-bomb.html>

Prasad, Sivram. Apollo 13 Review Board (Cortright Commission). 13 Oct 2003. <http://history.nasa.gov/ap13rb/ch3.pdf >

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). American Experience: Truman. 12 October 2003. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/truman/psources/ps_pressrelease.html>

Vatican. Humanae Vitae. 17 October 2003.<http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/
paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html>

Watson, J. D. and F. H. C. Crick. “Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids.” Nature 171 (1953): 737-738

West, Michael D. The Immortal cell : one scientist's quest to solve the mystery of human aging. New York: Doubleday, 2003

World Health. May 1980. Retrieved 18 Oct. 2003 <http://whqlibdoc.who.int/smallpox/WH_5_1980.pdf>

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