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was a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, which involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers: eventually forming two opposing military alliances, the Allies and the Axis.
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were a group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
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Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.
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was a political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system.
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. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957, and was the first in a series of satellites collectively known as the Sputnik program.
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United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace.
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was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
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was a large political rally in support of civil and economic rights for African Americans that took place in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
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was a large political rally in support of civil and economic rights for African Americans that took place in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963.
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was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War.
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was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.