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Maiman makes first laser
Maiman’s laser led to the subsequent development of many other types of lasers. Made in Hughes Research Laboratory in California. Created by shining a high power flash lamp on a ruby rod. The laser was described as a solution looking for a problem. It ended up not turning out the way that the people of the sixties thought it would. Today, the lasers are everywhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xNxH8pUKlA -
Civil rights movement
improtant because this movement helped to rectify the inequalities of all people when all people are supposed to be equal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNPM-_NG8XY -
John F. Kennedy gets elceted
he became the youngest man to be elceted in the United states of America. The campagn did not agree with the decision of his election because they thought that he was too young.
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peace corpse
Peace corpse is a program that is ran by the united states government. It is used to help people outside of the united states to understand the lives and culture of the people as well as helping americans understand the culture of people outside of the USA. After JFK was inaugrated, he signed executed order 10924 to establish a peace corpse on a temporary basis
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Kennedy sends troops to vietnam
President Kennedy approves sending 400 Special Forces troops and 100 other U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam Kennedy's orders also called for South Vietnamese forces to infiltrate Laos to locate and disrupt communist bases and supply lines there. This was some kind of beggining to what was the worst war of american history
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First ICMB
Intercontinental ballistic missile was the first with a minimum range of more than 5,500 kilometres. It was designed for nuclear weapons.
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Freedom riders oppose segregation
Blacks and whites take buses to the South to protest bus station segregation. Many are greeted with riots and beatings
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Kennedy launches apallo project (man on the moon)
The apallo project was the third human spaceflight program carried out by NASA. the project was dedicated later to John F. Kennedy and his national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" by the end of the 1960s, -
Pop art
Pop art was made to take away the boundaries of high and low culture. alot of pop artists expressed their veiws on post WWII
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Cuban missle crisis
famously known as the october crisis. it was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962 between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other side. it all started because the cold war as becoming closer to turning into a nuclear war.
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Gov. Wallace stops desegregation of the University of Alabama
Standing in the schoolhouse door and promising segregation "today, tomorrow, and forever," Wallace is forced by Pres. Kennedy to allow blacks to enroll
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Bombing of Birmingham church
4 black girls are killed by bomb planted in church. and many were injured. this led to even more riots and protests and conflicts between African Americans and the police. it also brought attention the the struggle and hardships of African americans in the USA.
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Kennedy gets assasinated
he was shot by a sniper while traveling with his wife. it took an investigation that ended up lasting ten months when the sniper was finally found was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone.
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Demonstrations against vietnam
peace was wanted because the americans realized that involvement in the war with vietnam was a mistake. The movement against the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War began in the U.S. with demonstrations in 1964 and grew in strength in later years. The U.S. became polarized between those who advocated continued involvement in Vietnam and those who wanted peace.
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Gulf of Tonkin Incident
also known as the USS Maddox Incident, the name that was made to seperate the two confrontations of between north vietnam and the united states. North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats attacked the USS Maddox while the destroyer was in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Voting Rights Act approved
After passage, southern black voter registration grows by over 50% and black officials are elected to various positions. In Mississippi, black voter registration grew from 7% to 67%
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LSD become illegal (Hippie movement)
California became the first state to make LSD illegal when they declared LSD a controlled substance.in response to this dramatic change, hippies in sanfrancisco staged an event at golden gate park called, Love Pageant Rally. they wanted the hippies to know that if they were one of the people using LSD, that they are not evil or mentally ill.
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The Beatles "sgt pepper"
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 1 June 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending15 weeks at number one in the US. it won 4 grammys as well as the album of the year.
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Robert Kennedy announces his candidacy for the presidency of the United States
Kennedy was a late entry in the race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 1968. but when he became senator, he decided that he wanted to run for president." I run because I am convinced that this country is on a perilous course and because I have such strong feelings about what must be done, and I feel that I'm oblige" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoKL4icZnmc -
Martin luther king assasinated
The death of MLK was followed by many riots in US cities. MLK was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states all because of what he did for blacks of america and america itself. his death of 1968 was a pivital moment for the united states.
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