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https://www.biography.com/political-figure/nikita-khrushchev
In 1918, he joined the Communist Party and fought in the Red Army during the Russian Revolution.
After Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953, Khrushchev deftly used his political skills to transfer or isolate political enemies who threatened his rise to party leadership. -
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/plessy-v-ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. At the meat of the case that became Plessy v. Ferguson was a law passed in Louisiana in 1890. providing for separate railway carriages for the white and negro races. It stated that all passenger railways had to provide these separate cars, which should be equal in facilities. -
https://www.history.com/topics/korea/korean-war
On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.
Finally, after more than two years of negotiations, the adversaries signed an armistice on July 27, 1953. -
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-rosenberg-trial-begins
Judge Irving R. Kaufman presides over the espionage prosecution of the couple accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. -
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-tests-first-hydrogen-bomb
Known as the hydrogen bomb, this new weapon was approximately 1,000 times more powerful than conventional nuclear devices. Opponents of development of the hydrogen bomb included J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the fathers of the atomic bomb. -
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/dwight-d-eisenhower
"Eisenhower managed Cold War-era tensions with the Soviet Union under the looming threat of nuclear weapons, ended the war in Korea in 1953 and authorized a number of covert anti-communist operations by the CIA around the world." "In his farewell address of January 1961, Eisenhower spoke of the dangers inherent in what he called the “military-industrial complex. -
https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/soviet-hydrogen-bomb-program
A year after the United States of America tested its first hydrogen bomb with the Mike Shot on November 1, 1952, the Soviets tested their own thermonuclear bomb. On August 8, 1953, Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov announced that the United States no longer had a winning side on the hydrogen bomb. Four days later, on August 12, 1953, the RDS-6s test, the first test of a Soviet thermonuclear device, took place. -
For alot Americans, the most enduring symbol of this “Red Scare” was Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. Senator McCarthy spent just about five years trying in vain to expose communists and other left sided peoples “loyalty risks” in the U.S. government.
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https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1985.html
On October 23, 1956, when hundreds of thousands of Hungarians led a revolt against the Soviet-controlled government. The uprising resulted in control over numerous social institutions and much of the country. -
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/lw/103729.htm
Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The successful launch came as a shock to experts and citizens in the United States, who had hoped that the United States would accomplish this scientific advancement first. -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro
The Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro was the head leader of the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. Following on from his early life, Castro decided to fight for the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's military junta.In a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. -
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-u-2-spy-plane-shot-down
The incident derailed an important summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was scheduled for later that month.
The U-2 spy plane was the brainchild of the Central Intelligence Agency, and it was a sophisticated technological marvel. -
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-man-in-space
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. He also was the first man to orbit the planet.Accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes. -
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/the-bay-of-pigs
The first mishap occurred on April 15, 1961, when eight bombers left Nicaragua to bomb Cuban airfields. The CIA used World War ll B-26 bombers an painted them to look like Cuban air force planes. -
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https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act
The Civil Rights Act, survived strong opposition from southern members of Congress and was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, etc. -
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1965.html
The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam as 3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang. They join 23,000 American military advisors already in Vietnam. -
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act
The Voting Rights Act aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented negro's from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th.The act banned the use of literacy tests, provided for federal oversight of voter registration in areas where less than 50 percent of the African-American population had not registered to vote.
