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McCarthyism
John McCarthy enforced and made accusations of disloyalty, and treason without proper regard of evidence. -
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The Korean War
It was a war between South Korea and North Korea and the United Nations decided to help South Korea and China and the Soviet Union helped North Korea -
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Civil Rights Movement
Different Civil Rights groups marched for equality and marched from Selma to Montgomery, gave sit ins, and had protests. -
Brown V. Board Of Education
Oliver Brown was fighting for public school systems to be one with Black's and White's. -
The Space Race
The Soviet Union and teh USA were fighting for supremacy of spaceflight which lasted from 1955-1972. -
Murder of Emmett Till
A young 14 year old kid who was killed for flirting with a white woman and was punished by having his eye gouged out, beaten, then shot him in the back of the head and threw his body in the river being weighed down by a cotton gin around his neck. -
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Vietnam War
3,500 U.S. Marines were dispatched to South Vietnam and that began the groud war of the Vietnam War. -
The Little Rock Nine
A small African American wanted to enroll in Little Rock High School and other AA students wanted to enroll as well but was stopped which caused the Little Rock Crisis. -
Malcolm X
A Nation of Islam memeber Johnson Hinton was beaten by two police officers and was beaten to where he had brain contusions. Then Malcolm X went to visit him and he took him to the hospital. -
Martin Luther King
MLK marched in Washington D.C. and gave his "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Assassination of JFK
JFK was assassinated while in a motorcade in Dallas, TX by Lee Harvey Oswald who was a radical and did't want equality in Black's and White's. -
Assassination Of Robert F. Kennedy
RFK was walking through a public kitchen during his Presidental Campaign and was shot to death by Sirhan Sirhan. -
Woodstock,1969
A music festival during the hippie era that took place on a barn with an open field for concerts. -
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Jimmy Carter and The Iran Hostage Crisis
52 Diplomats of the US was held hostage for 2 1/2 years by a group of Iranian students and the US negotiated with Iran and they were released on Jan 20, 1981. -
John Lennon's Death
Musician John Lennon of the Beatles was shot by Mark David Chapman outside of the building where he lived and there's was no motive behind the murder and was pronouced dead on arrival at the hospital. -
HIV/AIDS
The first cases of HIV slowly rose up and killed numerous men when the cause couldn't be discovered in time.
