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Founding of Mcdonalds
This food chain has changed our nation entirely! It takes fast food to a whole new level and even started T.V shows like Super Size Me. -
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Life/Culture/Politics
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Civil Rights
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Turman Signs Executive Order
President Truman signs executive order 9981, in an attempt to end segregation. it will not end until a while later after he learns that the commanders a following it. -
Invasion
North Korea invades South Korea - UN calls for end of aggression -
Nuclear Missiles on Submarines.
The Soviet Union started putting missles on submarines, -
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World
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Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952
This act removed racial and ethnic considerations of becoming a U.S. citizen -
Korean War Ends
The Korean War ends after three years of fighting. The boundary between North and South Korea is drawn at the 38th parallel. -
Abominable Snowman
Britain Sponsors an Expedition to Search for the Abominable Snowman -
Brown v. Board Of Education
Linda Brown's father started a case with the NAACP to give a better future for his daughter. She had to walk across railroad tracks and take a bus to her school when she could have gone to a school not even 5 blocks from her home. The only reason why is because it was an all white school. this case made it so that there was integration in all schools. -
Disneyland Opens
A 160-acre farm opens as Disneyland, the second name which was changed from "Mickey Mouse Park" -
Murder of Emmet Till
A fourteen year old boy from Chicago was visiting Mississippi. He was beaten,shot, and thrown into a river for whistling at a white women. The men that murdered him were found not guilty. A picture of his mutilated bloated face was shown around the country and was one of the sparks for the civil right movement. -
Arrest of Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus. This leads to her arrest. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
After the arrest of Rosa Parks the black community planned a mass boycott of all the buses. No colored person rode the buses for about a year. Martin Luther King Jr. was the one who planned the boycott. As a result the Supreme Court ruled that segregated buses were unconstitutional and the laws were then disbanded. -
Sputnik Satellite
The Soviet Union launched the first man made satellite to orbit the Earth. -
Little Rock Nine
September 24, 1957, was the day that Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas would integrate. There were nine African-American students that would be new to the school that year who would be famously known as "The Little Rock Nine". At the end of the year only one of the original nine graduated, Earnest Green. The school closed the following year. -
Freedom sit-ins
Four african american men sat at Woolworth's lunch counter for a meal but were refused because of the color of their skin. They would not take no for an answer though so they stayed seated and even when asked to leave stayed put. This was the spark of the sit-ins.
