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The Allies win the war after Japan surrenders.
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This court case decided that segregation was illegal in the United States.
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Rosa Parks was asked to move seats on a city bus while in the black section, but she refused and was arrested.
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The Rosa Parks Incident started this boycott which caused great financial loss to Montgomery because blacks refused to ride the city buses.
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Black students enrolled into a previously all white school after the Brown v. Board of Education case, but were still not allowed to attend after the governor ordered the National Gaurd to block their entry.
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The Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching the first human made object to orbit the Earth.
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A United States spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union causing more tension between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
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CIA gathered a group of Cuban exiles who lived in Florida and trained them in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion was a failure and an embarrassment to the U.S.
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Fidel Castro allowed the Soviet Union to build nuclear weapons on Cuba which put them in range of the United States.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was arrest during a nonviolent protest in Birmingham, Alabama. He wrote a letter from his jail cell to some Congress members.
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A group of over 200,000 people who were mostly blacks, gathered in Washington D.C. for a nonviolent protest.
