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Yalta Conference
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Lt. Col. A. Peter Dewey, head of American OSS mission, was killed by Vietminh troops while driving a jeep to the airport. Reports later indicated that his death was due to a case of mistaken identity -- he had been mistaken for a Frenchman.
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First East European Communist government set up in Albania.
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Truman Doctrine announced.
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Berlin Airlift begins (ends May 19, 1949)
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Truman signs Executive Order 9981, which states, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.
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Communists win Chinese Civil War.
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ruman approves NSC-68
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U.S. and other U.N. members fight North Korean forces. (the Korean War ends July 27, 1953)
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North Korea crosses the 38th Parallel, invading South Korea.
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US Marines/Infantry surrounded by Chinese Communist forces at Chosin Reservoir.
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Operation Killer begun.
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Congress endorses NATO, sends Eisenhower to head unified NATO command.
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Another Communist offensive, again fails to take territory.
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Ridgway broadcasts first American overture for peace talks.
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• Malcolm is released from prison after six years (instead of eight to ten) and meets Elijah Muhammad in Chicago. It is here that he receives the legendary 'X' from the Nation of Islam.
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A force of 40,000 heavily armed Vietminh lay seige to the French garrison at Dienbienphu. Using Chinese artillery to shell the airstrip, the Vietminh make it impossible for French supplies to arrive by air. It soon becomes clear that the French have met their match.
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Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, are arrested for the murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. They later boast about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. The case becomes a cause célèbre of the civil rights movement
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Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, are arrested for the murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. They later boast about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. The case becomes a cause célèbre of the civil rights movement
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Helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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Joseph McCarthy was a senator who, during the Cold War, accused certain Americans of being communist and causing the Red Scare in the U.S. It was pretty much like the Salem Witch Trials, except the witches were Comminist
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It was a competition between the Soviet Union and the U.S. to be the first to get to Space.
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(Little Rock, Ark.) Formerly all-white Central High School learns that integration is easier said than done. Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine
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sputnik was launched by the soviets and marked the beginning of the space race. this at the time was a very big deal. this is because if the soviets could launch a satelitte they could also launch weapons of mass destruction into space. also sputniks launch would lead to the creation of NASA
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Meets with Fidel Castro for half and hour in Hotel Theresa, Harlem.
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JFK chooses Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democratic Majority Leader, as his Vice President.
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JFK is elected the 35th President of the United States. He is the youngest man elected President and the first Roman Catholic
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In his inaugural address, he issues the famous line, "ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."
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As a growing number of East Germans stream into West Berlin amid worsening conditions and fears the border may one day be closed, Communist East German leader Walter Ulbricht declares: "Nobody intends to build a wall." Thousands read between the lines and the exodus accelerates.
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After midnight, East German troops begin erecting what Ulbricht calls an "anti-fascist protection barrier."
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Christmas Eve bombing of the home of NAACP
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Eighteen-year-old Peter Fechter bleeds to death in no man's land after being shot trying to escape. Western cameramen record the scene for nearly an hour before guards take away his body.
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american spy planes photographed missile sites being built in cuba. kennedy responded by blockading cuba with ships. eventually the soviet leader said that the sites and missiles will be removed. however the u.s. couldn't invade cuba. this crisis really scared the people of the united states of america. people were expecting a nuclear war.
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U.S. President John Kennedy rides in an open-top limousine through West Berlin. "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) he declares in a pledge of solidarity.
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November 22, 1963, Dallas, TX
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The act was the culmination of President Kennedy's work to pass civil rights legislation during his presidency
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After Oswald’s murder 52% of the country believed the assassination was part of a plot. The Warren Commission used existing investigative agencies, hired a staff of lawyers and submitted its Report to the President in ten months. The Commission concluded that Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor window of the Depository—one shot missed. Governor Connally was hit by a bullet that had passed through Kennedy’s neck, and Kennedy was hit in the head by the third shot. Evidence tied Oswald t
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on June 5, 1968, moments after declaring victory in the California Democratic primary. Escorted through a kitchen pantry in the Ambassador Hotel, RFK was assailed by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan firing a .22 pistol. Kennedy was shot multiple times
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more than half a million people gathered. they were united in a message of peace. this historical event was like a giant concert. it was full of hippies who would do drugs to achieve a feeling of enlightenment.
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The end of the war. The U.S. pulls out
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an angry mob of young Islamic revolutionaries overran the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 Americans hostage. "From the moment the hostages were seized until they were released minutes after Ronald Reagan took the oath of office as president 444 days later," wrote historian Gaddis Smith, "the crisis absorbed more concentrated effort by American officials and had more extensive coverage on television and in the press than any other event since World War II."
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He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of the building where he lived, The Dakota, in New York City
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former President Carter went to Germany to meet the freed hostages on behalf of the new president. It was a difficult moment, fraught with emotion. Hamilton Jordan recalled that Carter "looked as old and tired as I had ever seen him."
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On June 5, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publish a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), describing cases of a rare lung infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), in five young, previously healthy, gay men in Los Angeles. All the men have other unusual infections as well, indicating that their immune systems are not working; two have already died by the time the report is published. This edition of the MMWR marks the first official reporting of what wil
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On April 13, U.S. Representative Henry Waxman convenes the first congressional hearings on HIV/AIDS. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that tens of thousands of people may be affected by the disease.
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On January 7, CDC reports cases of AIDS in female sexual partners of males with AIDS.
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On April 23, Margaret Heckler, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announces that Dr. Robert Gallo and his colleagues at the National Cancer Institute have found the cause of AIDS, the retrovirus HTLV-III. She also announces the development of a diagnostic blood test to identify HTLV-III and expresses hope that a vaccine against AIDS will be produced within two years.
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On January 11, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revise the AIDS case definition to note that AIDS is caused by a newly identified virus and issue provisional guidelines for blood screening.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, 54, becomes leader of Soviet Union and embarks on course of cautious reforms.
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Near Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan demands: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this Wall."
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Popular protests against East German government become bolder and more widespread, but leader Erich Honecker insists: "The Wall will stand in 50, even 100 years."
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East Germany marks 40th anniversary. East Germans hail visiting Gorbachev as liberator with chants of "Gorby! Gorby!."
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