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Establishment of the United Nations
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Atomic Bomb
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Ho Chi Minh declars veitnam independence from France
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Civil rights moment
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Japan Surrenders
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Boom Time
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Start of the Korean War
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Long Time Soviet Union Leader
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Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a fourteen old African boy that got beaten and shot to death in Mississippi after he supposedly whistled at a white women. Two white men got charged with the crime attack. They should've got the death penatly or something much worse. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat at the front of the “colored section” (where she was suppose to be) to a white man passenger. She ended up getting arrested and the Montgomery black community had a bus boycott. The boycott lasted a little over a year until the buses were desegregated December 21, 1956. Martin Luther King Jr. leaded the boycott. -
Little Rock Nine
All white Central High Schools learned that integration was easier said then done. Nine black students were blocked from going into their high school. On the orders of Governor, Orval Faunus. Eisenhower sent troops and National Guard to get inbewteen with the students who became known as the “Little Rock Nine” -
Mark Charles Parker
Mark Charles Parker was an African American man who was accused of raping a white women. He was taken from jail in Mississippi and lynched by a mob on April 25. He didnt rape this girl, but got accused and punished for it. -
Freedom Rides
This is when African Americans would take interstate buses and travel into the deep south. The thing about these buses was that they were not segergated and blacks and whites didnt have to give up seats to each other because the buses went between multiple states. They would ride them to the deep south to prove that they did not need to be segergated. -
Thge March of Washington
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Assassination of King
