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US bombs Hiroshima & Nagasaki three days later leading to the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII
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European separation of Warsaw Pact countries and NATO countries
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization consisting of North America and 11 other countries states, An attack on one, is an attack on all.
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The US Communist Party was convicted of advocating to over-throw the US government
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The end of racial segregation in public schools. Declared a violation of the 14th amendment.
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The first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth was launched by the Soviet Union. This terrified Americans, they didn't know when it was above or what it was doing.
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A US spy plane, U-2, was shot down over the Soviet Union. At first the US denied the purpose of the plane, but eventually ws made to admit the spying.
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Communist German authorities built a wall separating East Germany from West to stop Germans from fleeing from communist east Germany to the Democratic West.
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This Act forbade discrimination of sex or race when hiring, promoting, and firing workers.
