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end of world war 2
the date that world war 2 came to an end -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws.
Little Rock Nine incident: The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students who were racially segregated & enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
May 21, 1954 - Jan. 10, 1957; The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system. -
Sputnik
November 3, 1957; Sputnik was the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth that caused a warhead scare in the U.S. -
Cuban missile crisis
November 3, 1957 - November 3, 1957; The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
JAN 1, 1959; The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. -
U-2 Incident
May 1, 1960; The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. -
Letter from Birmingham jail
April 16, 1963; A letter from Martin Luther King after being arrested in Birmingham jail. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a large political rally that took place in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963.
