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Joseph McCarthy waved a sheet of paper saying he had 201 names of communists within the US government, this of course was false, but it just fueled the on going red scare
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Sarah Keys, like rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white customer, landed her in jail, this trial led to the ruling that the "separate but equal" was unconstitutional to the interstate commerce commission
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first measure taken since the reconstruction period
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The soviets won the space race and sent the ship sputnik into space before the Americans got the chance to
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National Aeronautics and space administration to help with the space race
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President Kennedy became the first catholic president
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He was the first African American to enroll at this school
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President Kennedy was assassinated
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The federal government finally put into the effects the brown ruling 10 years after it was finished.
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This act abolished voting discrimination in federal, state, and local elections
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He was assassinated in Memphis while supporting a strike for sanitation workers
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A break in of the Watergate hotel that wiretapped to obtain the names of the committees financial supporters
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North and South Vietnam signed the Paris peace accord to to end the US force commitment to the Vietnam war