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The minimum wage in the United States increases from 75 cents to $1 per hour.
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This was the first summit conference between American, Soviet, French, and Great Britain leaders.
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Rosa Parks is arrested when she refuses to give up her seat at the front of a bus to a white man. This sparks a boycott against the bus company later leading to the desegregation in the buses of the company.
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Eisenhower is re-elected to a second term as president.
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The Russians launch the very first artificial Earth satellite.
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President Eisenhower sends federal troops to a school in Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce its desegregation. 9 black students are allowed to enter the school.
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The United States launches its first satellite. With this the U.S. has entered the "space race" with Russia.
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An armed revolt was led by Fidel Castro against the military dictatorship of Cuban president Fulgencio Batista. Trade with Cuba was lost after the revolution ended in 1959.
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Defeats Nixon to win the Presidency. Becomes the youngest elected president.
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1500 Cuban exiles brought up by the United States, goes into the Bay of Pigs in Cuba to attempt to overthrow the Castro regime.
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VIce President Lyndon B. Johnson goes to South Vietnam to offer economic and military aid to Diem.
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President John F. Kennedy is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
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Lyndon B. Johnson wins the presidency with a landslide victory.
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The first U.S. combat units arrive in Vietnam
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MLK leads thousands of people to the United Nations building in New York. There he delivers a speech attacking United States foreign policy with Vietnam. Tens of thousands of people attend this rally.
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Thousands of people march towards the pentagon to protest against the war in Vietnam
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In a nation wide broadcast addressing the war in Vietnam, Johnson announces that he will not be seeking a second term.
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MLK is assassinated in the Lorraine motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Elected President of the Unites States
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President Richard Nixon promises to withdraw thousands of troops from the war in Vietnam.
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The 26th amendment is ratified to lower the minimum voting age from 21 to 18.
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A group of men are caught breaking into and robbing the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel in Washington D.C.
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Nixon is reelected, defeating democratic, anti-war candidate, George McGovern.
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The war in Vietnam officially comes to an end for the United States. The long war leaves 60,000 dead, over 100,000 wounded, and around 1,000 MIA.
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President Nixon resigns amidst the Watergate scandal. Vice president Gerald Ford assumes the presidency.