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  Many white-collar workers performed their services in large corporations or government agencies.
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  The first credit card.
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  Truman orders development of hydrogen bomb.
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  A clevlan ohio d.j, and was the first to play rock n roll music.
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  Comedy shows were popular like miltin eral, and i love luckey
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  Japanese peace treaty signal is san francisco by 49 nature.
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  George VI dies; His daughter and becomes elizabeth II.
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  Eisenhower won 55 percent of the popular vote and a majority of the electoral college votes, while the republicans narrowly captured congress.
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  Stalin Dies.
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  Introuduce by 20th centry fox, and project a wide angl image on a broad screen.
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  stop resovation systen and divided tribal land among native americans.
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  Julius and ethel rosen bery executed in siry siny prison.
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  First franchise.
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  The study of subrban park forest illnosise, And they wanted everyone to be the same for the comminity.
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  Height of the baby boom 1 infant is born every 7 seconds.
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  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is established.
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  Fidel Castro comes to power in Cuba
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  Seventeen African countries gain independence
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  John F. Kennedy is elected president.
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  John F. Kennedy is elected president.
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  Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in outer space.
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  U.S. Launches the Bay of Pigs invasion.
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  The drug thalidomide is pulled from the market after it is found responsible for thousands of birth defects in Europe.
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  U.S. and USSR face off in the Cuban missile crisis,
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  President Kennedy is assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president.
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  Lyndon B. Johnson is elected president.
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  U.S. Troops enter Vietnam.
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  Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister of India
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  Israel wins Arab territories in the Six Day War.
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  Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia.
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  U.S. President Richard Nixon is inaugurated; promises "peace with honor" to end the Vietnam War.
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  Agreement to end war to reastore peace. North Vietnamese troops to stay in south.
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  lONGEST HELD POW RETURNS HOME.
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  President must inform congress withuin 48 hours before sending troops into a hostile area without decleration of war.
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  North and South Vietnam Join to Form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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  200 day...
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  Elvis Found Dead
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  South African Anti-Apartheid Leader Steve Biko Tortured to Death
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  First Test-Tube Baby Born
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  John Paul II Becomes Pope
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  Margaret Thatcher First Woman Prime Minister of Great Britain
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  Mother Teresa Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize