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The U.S. drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
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U.S. drops second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan.
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World War II ends and the Cold War begins.
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Ho Chi Minh declares independence after Japan surrenders to Allies.
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Set mood for independence movement.
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Robinson becomes the first African American to join to play baseball in the major league.
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Women gain the right to vote and stand in election in Belgium.
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The British evacuate Palestine and then Zionists declare the land Israel; many Arabs begin to resent Western powers.
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Policy of apartheid is adopted.
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Brought goods to West Berlin when supply routes to Eastern Germany were cut off.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a political alliance between North American and European countries.
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Segregated races to different residential and business sections in urban areas, sets up communities for different races.
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Classifies South Africans into three different racial groups.
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Sayyid Qutb returns Cario, Egypt with more radical views after living in the US for two years.
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Zawahiri, leader of the al-Jihad and current leader of al-Qaeda was born.
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Took away citizenship of black South Africans and required them to carry passports when entering white communities.
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legalized "separate but not necessarily equal" places for blacks
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This removed segregation from schools; really controversial at the time.
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Muslim Brotherhood member attempts to kill Gamal Abdul Nasser, the president of Egypt and fails; results in 6 people being but in concentration camps.
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The first lesbian organization formed in the United States.
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This started the Montgomery bus boycott and led to other civil rights protests.
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Allen Ginsberg publishes his poem, "America" in which he discusses his view on America.
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Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda is born.
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SCLC held a nonviolent protest in Washington D.C. which helped convince Congress to pass a civil rights legislation.
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Established US Civil Rights Comission which were given the power to investigate any violations of civil rights.
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Group that broke away from ANC hold their first meeting and Pan-African slogans are created.
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The group elects officials.
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Protesters refused to carry their reference books -- bans ANC and Pan African Movement.
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The birth control contraceptive pill is approved by the FDA and plays a major part in the sexual revolution.
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Protest against Boynton v. Virginia which was the bus segregation law.
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America's first battle against the Vietcong.
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Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring which raises awareness about how the environment is being harmed.
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James Meredith with the help of the NAACP wins a court case that made the University of Mississippi desegregate.
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It was discovered that nuclear missiles were being made in Cuba; lasted 13 days and it was the closest America came to fighting a nuclear war.
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Pressured political changes.
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Act makes it illegal to pay women less than what a man would be paid for the same work.
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Father of Pan-Africanism dies.
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Major civil rights groups, labor unions, and religious groups, and more than 200,000 people participated in this peaceful demonstration and increased awareness for civil rights as well as give encouragement towards passing civil rights laws.
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The church was the SCLC headquarters, 4 girls were killed.
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In the UK, Barbara Castle is appointed Minister of State, first female minister of state.
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The Beatles make their American television debut on the Ed Sullivan show; more than 70 million viewers and the beginning of the "British Invasion".
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Given a life sentence for sabotage against the Apartheid government.
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a brief bombing offensive that wanted North Vietnam to stop supporting Vietcong guerillas in South Vietnam
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Dutch counterculture movement which instigated the authority to use violence and brutality by using non-violent methods.
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Sayyid Qtub and his followers were put on trial and lasted 3 months.
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Femenist organization, established by Betty Friedan, that moved the women's rights movement.
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Sayyid Qtub is hanged after dawn prayers.
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LSD banned in California.
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Event in San Francisco that was held in Golden Gate Park and many speakers such as Timothy Leary, music, a protest against LSD ban.
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Betty Friedan's book, The Feminine Mystique, is published. The book spread the message that women wanted to be more than housewives.
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They researched and then declared that racism was the major cause of all the violence in the United States.
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American soldiers kill unarmed civilians in a village in Vietnam, My Lai.
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A general strike in Cordoba, Argentina which turned into a civil uprising.
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Violent outbreak that occurred when members of the gay community resisted arrest, Gay Liberation Movement began.
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A four-day music festival held in Bethel, New York in which oveer 400,000 people attended; it was originally supposed to fundraise for a recording studio.
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Rules that jobs held by men and women need to be "substantially equal" but not "identical".