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1946 Kennan's Long Telegram lays out Containment policy
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1948 Truman desegregates military
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1949 USSR gets atomic bomb, Chinese Communists Win; NATO formed
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The Korean War Begins 1950
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1951 I Love Lucy Airs; First Color TV
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1952 US Tests H-Bomb
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1953 Korean War Armistice
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1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ends school segregation
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Emmett Till murdered 1955
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1955 Rosa Parks arrested
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1956 Bus Boycott successful; Interstate Highways Built; Elvis becomes popular
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1957 Soviets first in Space with Sputnik I
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1958 NASA Formed
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1960 JFK Elected; Greensboro sit-ins; SNCC founded
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1961 Failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba
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1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
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March on Washington
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"I Have a Dream Speech"
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JFK assassinated
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The Civil Rights Bill Passed
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LBJ Elected
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1965 Malcom X Assassinated; Selma Marches; The Voting Rights Bill Passed
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National Organization for Women founded
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Black Panther Party formed
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1967 Summer of Love, San Francisco
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1968 Nixon Elected; Tet Offensive in Vietnam; MLK Jr. Assassinated
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1969 Woodstock Concert; Stonewall Riots; Man on the Moon
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1970 Kent State Shootings
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1972 Nixon Re-elected; Nixon visits China; Watergate scandal begins; Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in schools
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1973 Roe vs. Wade legalizes abortion; US withdraws from Vietnam; Arab Oil Embargo cause gas prices to soar in US
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1974 Nixon faced with Impeachment, Resigns, Ford becomes president and pardons Nixon
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Vietnam War Ends
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Jimmy Carter elected president
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Harvey Milk Assassinated
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Beginning of HIV epidemic in US
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Ronald Reagan elected president
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Ronald Reagan Re-Elected
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Scandal of Iran Contra Affair breaks
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George Bush Sr elected president
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End of the Cold War
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The Fall of Soviet Union
