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north coria captures seoul in the first couple of weeks of the fight but the soviet boycott so the us is able to push in an fight back against north korea and they were able to stop the advance -
the soviet launches sputnik satellite in to space and also tests there (icbm) international ballistic missile that's capable of delivering nuclear war heads in minutes to the us -
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald -
this created medicare and expanded on war on poverty
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people protest the vietnam war at the lincoln memorial with over 50,000 people being there
