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Creation of Israel
during the discovery of the holocaust during WWII the united nation formed a country for Jewish people and the US and Israel became allies while the Soviet came to support many of the surrounding Arab states. This started when President Harry S. Truman was in the office.
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NATO
NATO also known as The North Atlantic treaty organization they would provide a combined military force such an attack occured. This group who are allied with the US and other European nations and stated that each country would come to the defense of any others if they are ever attacked. If US is attacked by a enemy than allies have to attack
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Domino Theory
This theory was made by Dwight Eisenhower wen he was elected as president of the U.S. in 1952 he was a war hero of WWII and the Domino theory was to contain the spread of communism and soviet aggression. He believed if one nation fell to communism the neighboring nation would soon fall as well so he and other former presidents tried there best to contain it.
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Brown v. Board of Education
The Brown v Board of Education is about a black girl named Linda Brown that they wouldn't allow her to attend an all white school around her home. It happened because she was an African American and the Board of Education wouldn't allow her. The Board of Education and Linda Brown. It was a reversed the Plessy v. Ferguson decision and ruled that racial segregation public schools is unconstituitonal.
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
This all started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her sit for a white man and was arrested and it united a black community of Montogomery. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lead the boycott of buses African Americans boycott public transportations to get rid of the segregation laws on public transportations.
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was the soviet union(USSR) answer to NATO in 1955. The warsaw pact united all communist countries in a similar pledge. They copied the NATO same if they get attacked than a Communist country had to help them.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-warsaw-pact-is-formed -
Little Rock Nine
The little rock nine was a group of nine African Americans students enrolled in Little Rock Nine high school in 1957. Little Rock high school didn't want to enroll them into the high school until the Arkansas National Guard. Little Rock high is an all white school.
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Launching of Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1. The first artificial satellite. The Soviet Union were the first to make a satellite and the satellite is the size of a beach ball. The satellite orbital around the earth.
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Greensboro Sits-ins
North Carolina A&T University four black college students protested the racial Segregation in restaurants sitting at a whites only lunch counters. They wouldn't leave until they be served or get arrested.
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U-2 spy Incident
After Joseph Stalin death in 1953 a new soviet leader came to power and his name is Nikita Khrushchev and the U.S sent a spy plane to Russia and the soviet union shot it out the sky when Dwight Eisenhower was elected as president in 1952. They both meet at Moscow and he denied any spy mission never apologized. He still didn't apologize.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
It all happened Fidel Castro just overthrew the cuban governement and assumed control of the nation and Castro had ties to Communism. President Dwight Eisenhower refused to support him because Castro allied himself with Soviet Union. John F. Kennedy approved a operation to aid anti-castro cubans in an invasion of their homeland. United states, Cubans were involved. The effects of the event was a failure on April 17,1961
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
It all happened Fidel Castro just overthrew the cuban governement and assumed control of the nation and Castro had ties to Communism. President Dwight Eisenhower refused to support him because Castro allied himself with Soviet Union. John F. Kennedy approved a operation to aid anti-castro cubans in an invasion of their homeland. United states, Cubans were involved. The effects of the event was a failure on April 17,1961 -
Freedom Riders
Blacks and whites riders starts in D.C to travel south in Anniston,Alabama, the Freedom Riders were met by white mob who attacked and burned the bus and if they got off the bus they would be beaten sometimes to death.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
For 13 days the world watched two superpowers to the brink of war. Bay of pigs was a failure, Castro still feared a future invasion by the U.S. forces. So two superpowers meet with naval boats with missiles than Khruschev agreed to withdraw the missiles in exchange for a U.S. Pledge not to invade Cuba.
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"I have a dream" Speech
The famous "I have a dream" Speech was only 17 minutes and took places at Washington D.C. Martin Luther King Jr was recongized as the leader of the Civil rights movement and he followed Ganghi believed in non violent and Martin Luther King was a leader and showed a non violent protest and speech
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JFK Assassination
JFK was assassinated because he used the federal authorities to enroll James Meredith in a white resistance college level. Also in 1957 nine black students were prevented from entering school at little rock central high school by the american's governor. So he was assassinated when he was in Dealey Plaza.
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Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer is a 1964 voter registration project in Mississippi. The SNCC is a non violent group and blacks were being abused and etc by whites and the Ku Klux Klan and they showed violent in Mississippi. They were fighting for the right to vote for black voters to be expand.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act is when the states ratified the 24th Amendment to the constution and also lifted the pox tax illegel making more people to vote
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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Johnson won the election of 1964 by portraying his opponent Barry Goldwater saying his going start and nuclear war over Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin it gave Johnson the power to take military action against Vietnam without any saying or approval from congress so he could do anything he wants to over a Vietnam.
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Bloody Sunday in Selma, AL
600 civil rights marchers headed out east of Selma on route 80 in U.S and local lawmen attacked the marchers with billy clubs and tear gas drove them back to Selma
http://www.history.com/news/selmas-bloody-sunday-50-years-ago -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the event we suspended the literacy tests for voters registration and was signed by the president Lyndon Johnson. the act was lifted to get rid of the poll taxes to make more African Americans vote
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Executive order 11246: Affrimative Action
Lyndon B. Johnson issued the Executive order 11246 prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, and national origin. The affect of it is getting rid of discrimination and etc. Slow process but it is working
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/employment-law/pages/executiveorder11246of1965.aspx -
Loving v. Virginia
This supreme court is about interracial marriage. A black women and a white man were fighting to be married. They were a happy interracial couple
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/educate/educator-resources/lessons-plans/landmark-supreme-court-cases-elessons/loving-v-virginia-1967/ -
Civil rights act of 1968
The Civil rights act of 1968 is about unlawful discrimition in housing based on race, color, sex, national origin, or religion.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fair-housing-act -
Woodstock
This took place in upstate NY in 1969 where your so called peace people also known as hippies get together and promote peace, hear bands, do illegal drugs and engage in behavior that the nation found shocking and immoral.
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Kent State
Kent state university were upset when they heard what they are doing at vietnam war killing woman and kids so the angry students attacked businesses and burned the army ROTC building on camps. So when they started doing that Ohio governor sent National guard troops to deal with it and students started throwing rocks at them and the troops opened fire and killed four students and left nine seriously injured.
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Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall separated Communist East Berlin from democratic west Berlin. The wall was bad because it separated some family and some people even died to try get to the other side to the democratic side if they don't have permission they will be shot. The date the wall it was up 13 August 1961 and it went down at 9,November 1989
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MLK Assassination
MLK was assassinated in Memphis at a hotel shot by James Ray 200 feet away. MLK was a non violence speaker who wanted the segregation act to end so everybody will have equal rights. The affect of it is that MLK is assassinated.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/martin-luther-king-jr-assassination -
Malcolm X Assassination
Malcolm X was assassinated February 21, 1965 at Washington heights, New York city, NY. He was a violent person at first telling african americans to do whatever means necessary to have their rights. Than he had a change of heart when he witnessed black and white muslims praying together and became an nonviolent leader and some peple see him as a traitor so Februrary 21,1965 three African american men shot him while he spoke at a rally.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/malcolm -
Korean War
July 25, 1950 the Korean war has began. It got started when north Korea followed to communism and the south stayed democratic. The U.S was involved and helping South Korea to fight off communism because we didn't want communism to spread. On the date July 27, 1953 the war was a stalemate nobody didn't won and till this day Korea is still split for communism and democratic
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Vietnam War
The war started in Nov,1 1955 its the longest war in U.S history and it the same as the Korea war to fight off Communism. this was on the 17 degree line the north was communism as the south were trying to stay democratic but what we didn't know is that the south leader followed with communism as well. this war was a stalemate nobody didn't lose or win anything it ended in April 30, 1975
http://www.history.com/topics/vietnam-war
