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Each train and truck was to be searched by the Soviet authorities ,General Clay ordered halt to military trains and required that supplies to the military garrison to be transported by air, in which would later be the Little Lift.
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The Western powers announce plans for a new deutschmark to replace the former German currency which had become worthless. Russia refuses to go along with this idea.
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A Soviet fighter collides with a British airplane in one of the Allied air corridors, leading to crashes that kill people on both aircraft.
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The continued success of the Airlift humiliated the Soviets, and as big of a superpower they saw their self they drew the last straw and came to a lift of the blockade. The Allies came to the agreement and approved of the Lift.
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As the Soviet gave North Korea permission to invade the South, The United States begin to arm South Korea and plan for an attack which stalin went along with to attack the 38th parallel and the war begins after the North invaded the 38th
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As the North beings to invade and bring in tanks into the South the U.S. begins to worry that the North is becoming antsy so President decides to bring in support for S. Korea
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As the United Nations hear of this attack from the United States the United Nations send in troops around the beaches of Inchon, behind enemy lines
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The UN sending troops into S. Korea alarmed China, In late Novemeber Mao Zedong sent hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops to help N. Korea, as a result of this N. Korea and chinese troops push back to the 37th parallel.
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Finally in 1953 both sides signed an armsistice, or end of fighting. The armistice held for the rest of the Cold War, but no peace treaty was ever negotiated
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AS the U.S. announce this they show to the world that they will go to any measure for S. Korea to be anti communist and to not keep the domino theory going
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The movie Blackboard Jungle propels Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" to #1 for two months. Which would be the outbreak for rock music in the coming years.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the colored section of a bus to a white passenger destroying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott.
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Dr. King Jr, Established The SCLC which will become a major force in organizing the civil rights movement and bases its principles on nonviolence and civil disobedience.
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1956 goes down in history as "the year of Elvis". As he breaks chart records with nine singles in the Hot 100 chart at once. America sees this new popular man and becomes an instant hit.
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Over the spring and summer students begin to take trips through the South to prohibt segregation through bus stations and test new laws, along the way angry mobs of white supremacy will attack the riders black and white.
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As Kennedy see the spread of communism spreading through Vietnam he sends in over 400,000 troops into S. Vietnam to back N. Vietnam out.
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James Meredith is accepted and enrolled at Mississippi, as this happens many white people are upon this and Violence breaks out, Kennedy would soon send in 5,000 federal troops.
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Air Force Pilot Richard Heyser flies a spyplane over Cuba from unexpectedly finding and taking photos of Russian medium-range missiles.
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Robert Kennedy keeps a scheduled meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, but does not mention the missiles. Gromyko tells Kennedy the only help the Soviet Union is giving to Cuba missiles are only for defense.
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MLK Jr, is arrested during a anti segregation protest in Birmingham, Alabama , leading to this he will soon write his serminal "Letters from Birmingham Jail"
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President Kennedy gives a speech that is carried live on television stations across the country to inform Americans that missiles have been discovered in Cuba. He tells Americans that he has ordered a Navy quarantine around Cuba to blockade the missles
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The president of South Vietnam, Diem is captured and killed during an overthrow of the government by South Vietnamese generals. President Kennedy aware of the plan to overthrow the government, but not to know that Diem would be assasinated.
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Martin Luther King Jr. at age 39 was shot and found dead on his balcany of his motel room. James Earl Ray is convicted of the Murder
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The Beatles release the Phil Spector produced album Let It Be. It generates three #1 hits "Get Back", "Let It Be" and their final #1, "The Long and Winding Road" all song going #1 for 3 weeks in a row
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Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign a peace agreement in Paris, U.S. involvement in the war to an end. Vietnam will be a communist nation. Most American troops will return home
