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Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a big part of the Civil rights movement back in the 1950s. Rosa Parks is most well know for her civil rights movement on the boycott of the Montgomery bus On December 1st, 1955. -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born in the year of 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia but was sadly assassinated at the age of 39 in 1968. MLK had become a civil rights leader and speaker in 1954 and become famous across the country. Before 1954 he was a baptist minister but he had kept speaking until his death in 1968 and his dream still carry's on for many to this day -
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Baby Boom
Baby Boom was a time after the war where all the husbands came home and wanted start off on a new leaf they get a new house to start a new family and during this time the population went up a lot due to all of the kid's being born -
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Cold War
The Cold War was a rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States of America to gain influence across the world the Soviet Union was trying to spread communism across the world while country's like the United States was trying to stop this by having smaller country's have democratic system. Another definition of this war was that these country's were fighting but not directly. -
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Berlin Blockade/ Berlin airlift
The Berlin airlift was the U.S. sending out supplies such as food, water, fuel to the citizens of west Berlin. The citizens of west Berlin had been completely Germany and the soviet union cutting of power and many supplies that were needed. -
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Elvis
Elvis Presley is one of the most well known singers ever he started his career of singing in 1954 but became known international in 1956 Elvis is also known to be the king of rock and roll in the 1950s most people just getting settled down would usually listen to classical music but then Elvis came out with his music and most of the teens would listen to him and have parents freak out sounds very familiar -
The Warsaw pact
The Warsaw pact was a treaty between the Soviet Union and the 7 satellite country's that it had at the time and the treaty made it so that each country would help each other out with anything including defense -
Vietnam War
Vietnam was a civil war between north and south Vietnam the north being a communist government and the south be a non-communist government but America was trying to stop the spread of communism at all costs so then they entered the war and in the end the south had lost and now Vietnam is a communist government to this day -
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall was a physical barrier between East and West Germany that had started construction in 1961. Before the Berlin wall had begun construction over 3 million citizens had escaped from East Germany and that is why the Soviets had built the wall in the first place to separate East Germany run by a Communism government and west Berlin run by a Democratic government. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis was between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Soviet Union sent many missiles over to Cuba to be launched at the United States the missiles were going to be used to hit the bigger city's such as Miami, Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, New York city, Washington, Los Angeles and Seattle. No one knew when these missiles were going to be launched so it left the people and the government on their heels. -
Robert F. Kennedy Assasssination
On June 5th of 1968 Robert F. Kennedy at the age of 42 was running for president at the time. Robert was assassinated shortly after midnight in the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles after he had won California.in the election. -
Watergate
Watergate was a huge scandal in the 1972 with the president Richard Nixon and his team. Supposedly Nixon had sent a team to the the Watergate hotel where the democratic party was staying to come up with a strategy for the 1972 election. Well Nixon's plan didn't go as expected 5 people were arrested at the Watergate hotel for spying and snooping on the democratic party. -
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford was the 39th president of the United States of America. In his presidency he did't really do much and is why he didn't re-elected for a second term the only thing he really did was Pardon Nixon for his wrongdoing. -
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was the 41st president of the United States of America. Reagan is most known for Reaganomics which lowered the tax rates and it more money into people's pockets especially the big business owners which allowed them to create more jobs having more people pay taxes giving the government more money. Also, Reagan survived an attempted assassination when he was shot in the chest. Reagan also won re-election in 1984. -
Challenger Explosion
The challenger was supposed to be an orbital mission and had took NASA 3 years to work on the rocket. The crew for the rocket mostly consisted of astronauts except for two of the crew being the a engineer and a physicist and the other a teacher. One the of the people on the crew on the challenger being a teacher was supposed to get students excited about school and get them more involved. -
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Persian gulf war
The Persian gulf war begun in 1990 and ended shortly after in 1991. The war started due to Iraq blaming Kuwait for all of the missing oil that they had. Most people thought Iraq was doing the wrong thing since Kuwait was a small country and couldn't defend itself but then America stepped in and things ended very quickly. -
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Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton was the 43rd president of the United States of America and was Inaugurated on January 20th 1993 some of the things that Bill Clinton is most well known for is that he signed NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and Increased children's health insurance. Later, Bill Clinton was Impeached over obstruction of justice in his affair with Monica Lewinskey. -
9/11
September 11th was a series of 4 attacks over the the span of 24 hours with one of the attempted being stopped which was going to head for the white house. On that Tuesday morning a total of 2,996 died only 126 of those deaths came from the pentagon crash. -
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Hurricane Katrina vs Hurricane Harvey
Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Harvey were both very similar to the people. In the city of New Orleans many were saved but treated different after the damage was done the neighborhoods of many people that didn't have much money didn't get attended to and the same goes for Hurricane Harvey Houston was the first city to get help even though it was hit after Puerto Rico and they still haven't had much help after the hurricane -
Donald Trump
Donald J. Trump is the 46th president of the United States of America. Trump was inaugurated on Friday, February 2nd. One of the most important things that he said he was going to do when he got office which is what got him a lot of votes is that he was going to get rid of Obamacare which was favored by many people
