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The ending of World War II
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A little girl was not allow to attend her local school because she was black
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Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man and is sent to jail.
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Boycott to put an end to segregation on the city busses in Montgomery
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Nine African American students attend Central high School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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The Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite
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confrontation between the US, Soviet , and Cuba involving nuclear weapons
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An American spy plane was shot down in the Soviet Union
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An unsuccessful event by the US to overthrow the cuban government.
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Letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while he was in jail.
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A nonviolent civil rights march in Washington, D.C.
