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A study was released showing that the most recent polio vaccine was effective. It was released, people were healed, and the sickness became much less of a threat. -
The Space Race begins when the Soviet Union responded to the United States saying they would launch satellites in the near future by saying they would also launch a satellite. -
Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus. The boycott that followed was led by Martin Luther King Jr. marking a turn and arguably the beginning of the civil rights movement that was prominent in the 60's -
Eisenhower reelected into office, marking the beginning of his second term. -
Troops are sent to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce desegregation of the cities public schools. -
US troops land in Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban Castro Regime. -
Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his historic "I Have a Dream" speech at the Washington D.C. mall. -
Khrushchev is replaced as first secretary of the Communist Party by Leonid Brezhnev. -
The United States sends forces to Vietnam.