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Rosa Parks famous response to a man wanting to take her spot on a public bus happened in 1955. Her telling a white man no, started to initiate the start of the Civil Rights movement.
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Dr. Jonas Salk first started to use the polio vaccine in 1955. This made the polio cases fall from 35,000 in 1953 to 5,600 cases in less than five years.
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The Vietnam War began in November 1, 1955 and lasted till April 30, 1975.
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Eisenhower presented to congress an Act that would make sure that every American had the equal opportunity to vote and that that right could not be taken away by anyone.
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In 1958 NASA was founded by Dwight Eisenhower. This organization was made in response to the space race with the Soviet Union.
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In 1959 Alaska and Hawaii officially became apart of the United States of America. They were the 49th and 50th state.
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. He was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.