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End of WWII
The ending of World War II -
Brown v. board of education
A little girl was not allow to attend her local school because she was black -
Rosa Parks incident
Rosa parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man and is sent to jail. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Boycott to put an end to segregation on the city busses in Montgomery -
Little Rock Nine Incedent
Nine African American students attend Central high School in Little Rock, Arkansas. -
Sputnik Launch
The Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite -
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Cuban missile crisis
confrontation between the US, Soviet , and Cuba involving nuclear weapons -
U-2 incident
An American spy plane was shot down in the Soviet Union -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
An unsuccessful event by the US to overthrow the cuban government. -
Letter from the Birmingham jail
Letter written by Martin Luther King Jr. while he was in jail. -
March on Washington
A nonviolent civil rights march in Washington, D.C.
