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When the CIA was created, its purpose was to create a clearinghouse for foreign policy intelligence and analysis. Today, its primary purpose is to collect and analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence, and to carry out covert operations -
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The Korean War was a conflict between the democratic people's republic of North Korea and the Republic of South Korea in which at least 2.5 million people lost their lives.
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The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955, to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. It was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
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Because she sat down and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, she was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black people to relinquish seats to white people when the bus was full. (blacks also had to seat at the back of the bus.) -
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Sputnik 1, was the first artificial earth satellite. it was launched into a dialectical low earth orbit by the soviet union on October 4, 1957, as a part of the soviet space program. it orbited for three weeks before the batteries ran out. -
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He was the 35th President of the United States of America, he was in office from January 20, 1961 - to November 22, 1963 -
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 as well as encircling and separating West Berlin from the east german territory. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on August 13, 1961
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the united states of America, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey plaza. -
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The Indian civil rights act of 1968 granted native American people, for the first time, full access to the united states bill of rights. This guaranteed them the right to freedom of religion, the right of habeas corpus--or justification of lawful imprisonment, and the right to a trial by jury (among others). -
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Woodstock Music and art fair commonly referred to simply as Woodstock. was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max yasgur's dairy farm in bethel, new york, 40 miles southwest of the town of Woodstock.
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The goals of la Raza Unida were to provide encouragement for more involvement of the people in the politics of Mexican Americans or Chicanos. they wanted a greater number of Mexican-Americans to be there in the government and a greater number of Chicanos to give their votes. The Raza Unida Party was established -
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Apple computers inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts steve jobs and steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes. -
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san Francisco mayor George Moscone and San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk were shot and killed in san Francisco city hall by former supervisor dan white on November 27, 1978 -
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the soviet-afghan war was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Marxist-Lennenist-moist groups, fought a nine-year guerrilla war against the democratic republic of Afghanistan and the society army throughout the 1980s, mostly in the afghan countries.
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