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The first conference between the Soviet and American leaders along those of France and Great Britain.
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Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white an and is arrested. Would go on to be the turning point for the African American freedom struggle.
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Eisenhower signs the federal- aid highway act of 1956 which will create the interstate.
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Eisenhower is elected to a second term
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Soviet Union announced that they have launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Eisenhower sends federal troops to Little Rock Arkansas to enforce the court ordered desegregation of the city's public schools.
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The soviets launch Sputnik, the first manmade satellite.
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The U.S. launches its first satellite, explorer I. Marking the U.S. entry to space.
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The British overseas airways corporation begins the first regular jet airline service across the Atlantic ocean.
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Sit-in demonstrations begin in Charlotte North Carolina as black students protested segregation at woolworths lunch counter.
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JFK becomes the youngest elected president.
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A force of 1,500 Cubans exile trained and financed by the U.S. lands at the bay of pigs in Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the Castro regime.
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President JFK is shot and killed riding in his car through town.
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Lyndon B Johnson wins the presidential election with tremendous numbers.
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Thousands march to the Pentagon to demonstrate against the war in Vietnam
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President Johnson meets with his military advisors who urge him to find a way to end the war in Vietnam
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MLK is assassinated at the Lorraine motel in Memphis.
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Republican Richard Nixon is elected President of the U.S.
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President Nixon promises to withdraw 35,000 additional troops from Vietnam.
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The house and the Senate vote to withdraw all U.S. troops in Vietnam.
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The 26th Amendment is ratified, lowering the national voting age from 21 to 18
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Five men are caught burglarizing the headquarters for the Democratic National Committee.
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Nixon defeats Democratic candidate Senator George McGovern in the presidential election.
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South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and the United States sign a peace agreement in which a ceasefire is declared.
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The Vietnam war is officially over for the U.S.
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President Nixon resigns amidst the watergate scandal, Vice president Gerald Ford would fill in for Nixon
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The North Vietnamese take Saigon, and the war in Vietnam ends.