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Harry Truman
approve production of the hydrogen sends air force and navy korea in june. -
Joseph McCathyism
practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence -
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Korean War
was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. -
ANZUS Treaty
The United States, Australia, and New Zealand sign a mutual security pact, the ANZUS Treaty. -
brown v board of education
was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional -
NAACP
Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress, refuses to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, prompting the boycott and NAACP protect that would lead to the declaration that bus segregation laws were unconstitutional by a federal court. -
new president
Diem defeats Bao Dai in rigged election and proclaims himself President of Republic of Vietnam -
Bay of Pigs
The "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba is repulsed by Cuban forces in an attempt by Cuban exiles under the direction of the United States government to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro. -
John F. Kennedy
stated that the United States should set as a goal the "landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth" by the end of the decade. -
John F. Kennedy assassinated
One shot hit President Kennedy’s throat and he reached up with both hands toward the injury. Then another shot struck President Kennedy’s head, blowing off a part of his skull -
Edward Brooke
- The first black United States Senator in eighty-five years, Edward Brooke, is elected to Congress
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Martin Luther King assassinated
Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee while standing on a motel balcony by James Earl Ray. -
Kent State University
Four students from Kent State University in Ohio were killed and nine wounded by National Guardsmen during a protest against the Vietnam War spread into Cambodia. -
Water Gate
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement -
Vietnam peace pacts
Four part Vietnam peace pacts, the Paris Peace Accords, were signed in Paris, France. The announcement of the military draft ending also occurred on that date. The last U.S. military troops would leave the war zone on March 29 -
nuclear-proliferation pact
Fifteen nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a nuclear-proliferation pact, slowing the spread of nuclear weapons around the world. -
embargo on sale of grain
President Jimmy Carter announces the embargo on sale of grain and high technology to the Soviet Union due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. -
john lennon
Lennon was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where it was stated that nobody could have lived for more than a few minutes after sustaining such injuries. Shortly after local news stations reported Lennon's death, crowds gathered at Roosevelt Hospital and in front of the Dakota. -
Sally
Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman to travel into space -
Nuclear Forces Treaty
The United States and the Soviet Union sign an agreement, the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, to dismantle all 1,752 U.S. and 859 Soviet missiles in the 300-3,400 mile range.
