🏰 History ATC #5: Modern History 3/3 🏰

In this swap you will create one standard sized ATC for your partner.

🗿 Theme: Contemporary History (1945-1990)! Anything from any of those years and decades is allowed, from any corner of the Earth. Can't think of anything specific because too much everything is happening at once? Here's some contemporary history for inspiration:

• The Golden Age of Hollywood (1929-1959)
• The Division of Korea (1945)
• The American War in Vietnam (1955-1975)
• Cold War (1947-1991)
• Soviet Occupation of the Baltic States (1944-1991)
• Space Age (after 1957)
• Heavy metal music (1960s-1970s)
• The Troubles (Ireland, 1960s-1998)
• Punk subculture (1970s)
• Information Age (1971-present)
• Rubik's Cube (1974)
• Mount St. Helens eruption (1980)
• The Chernobyl disaster (1986)
• The Singing Revolution (the Baltic states, 1987-1991)
• What was your country up to during these years?

Some interesting people relevant to the time period:

• Alvar Aalto, a Finnish architect and designer
• Astrid Lindgren, a Swedish novelist and playwright
• Black Sabbath, an English rock band
• Buster Keaton, an American actor and stunt performer
• Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales
• Frank Sinatra, an American singer and actor
• Grace Kelly, an American actress, the Princess of Monaco
• Janis Joplin, an American singer-songwriter
• Jean-Michel Basquiat, an American artist of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent
• Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea
• Laika, a Soviet space dog, one of the first animals in space and the first one to orbit the Earth
• Led Zeppelin, an English rock band
• Little Richard, an American musician, nicknamed "The Innovator, The Originator, and The Architect of Rock and Roll"
• Marilyn Monroe, an American actress, model and singer
• Rosa Parks, an American activist in the civil rights movement
• Salvador Dalí, a Spanish surrealist artist
• Tamara de Lempicka, a Polish painter
• Tove Jansson, a Finnish novelist, painter, author and illustrator
• Valentina Tereshkova, a Russian engineer, the first woman to have flown in space
• Yoko Ono, a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist
• Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, the first human to journey into outer space

🗿 Medium: anything goes except sticker slapping and found images with nothing added to them. That's not cool. Put some effort into it and make something you would want to receive!

🗿 Size: The usual 2,5 x 3,5 inches. Please use a reasonably sturdy backing.

🗿 On the back of the card, please write your name/username, date of creation and the name of the swap. Please also add a note explaining how your ATC fits the theme!

🗿 Newbies with at least 20 completed and rated swaps are welcome, but non-raters, flakers or unresolved low ratings are not.