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King urged America to "make real the promises of democracy.
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The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc Historians do not fully agree on the dates
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Soviet Union blocked western allies from getting in by blocking roads and railroads.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established by 12 Western nations
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Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China
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1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel
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The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union
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Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson
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the USSR launched a counter-attack on Nazi Germany. Stalin died in March 1953, his death triggered a power struggle in which Nikita Khrushchev after several years emerged victorious against Georgy Malenkov
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Soviet launch first satellite into space and circles the earth.
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The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election -
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space
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Cuban exiles launched a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba
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the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores
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This happened on November 22, 1963, Dallas, TX
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First U.S. Concerts, estimated four thousand Beatles' fans were present
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Zedong called on Chinese scientists to rely on their own efforts and develop China's atomic bomb within eight years
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known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast
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after a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11
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, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. They landed on the moon in the Lunar Module
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Tet offensive, a series of simultaneous attacks that began
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Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis
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Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary
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at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets
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the Woodstock Festival was a music festival in the United States
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was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War
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he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office
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American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days in Iran.
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This event began a brutal, decade-long attempt by Moscow to subdue the Afghan civil war and maintain a friendly and socialist government on its border
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President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C.
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wast in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel
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as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders.
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the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor
