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Highlight of Dwight D Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on D-Day
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were a married couple accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
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First Hydrogen Bomb US
The United States was the first country to conduct this hydrogen bomb by the Marshall islands to attack the Soviet Union.
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Highlight of Nikita Khrushchev
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Highlight of Dwight D Eisenhower
Known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, this act came into effect when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it.
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Highlight of Dwight D Eisenhower
Eisenhower used his formidable military reputation to imply a threat of nuclear attacks if North Korea, China and South Korea didn't sign an Armistice to end the three-year-old bloody war.
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The McCarthy Era
McCarthy was a chairman of government committee on operations of senate and was also one of the least qualified, most corrupt politicians of his time.
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The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was visiting family in Mississippi , he was 14 an was from Chicago. He was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman.Two men beat him to death. After seeing the left remains, she decided to have an open-casket funeral so that all the world could see what racist murderers had done to her only son and show reality to everyone.
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First Hydrogen Bomb USSR
After US attacked they responded back by making the bomb to have a yield of 1.6 megatons and it was also a two-stage radiation implosion.
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The Hungarian Uprising
An estimated 1000 tanks attack before dawn and after heavy fighting Soviet troops enter the city. Nagy's last appeal for help is broadcast at 5.15am. Less than three hours later Radio Hungary is silenced.
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Highlight of Dwight D Eisenhower
President Eisenhower declared that "There must be no second class citizens in this country," President Dwight Eisenhower told the District of Columbia to use their schools as a model of integrating black and white public schools.
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Tha Launch of Sputnik 1
The Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on October 4, 1957, making it the first successful artificial satellite and marking the start of the Space Race.
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Cuba Goes Communist
Castro publicly declared himself a Marxist-Leninist in late 1961. By that time, Cuba was becoming increasingly dependent on the Soviet Union for economic and military support.
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Greensboro Four
Greensboro Four was a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro to try to remove racial segregation in the southern part of the unites states.
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John F Kennedy Election
The 1960 United States presidential election was won by John F Kennedy.
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First Man in Space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin aboarded the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
An operation of The CIA to take Castro Fidel out of power.
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Cuban Missile Crisis
A 13-day political and military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba.
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Murder of Medgar Evers
African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers was shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith in his driveway.
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First American troops arrive in South Vietnam
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.
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Loving v. Virginia
https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/loving-v-virginia
Loving v. Virginia was a case were it banned state laws from interracial marriage in the United States. The two people were Richard and Mildred Loving, a white man and black woman. There marriage was illegal according to Virginia state law.
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