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Between 1940 and 1960 the number of Americans who owned their own homes grew from 20 percent to 61 percent.
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The number of cars sold in the us increased from 3.7 million per year to 6.6 million.
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Franklin Roosevelt died and vice president Harry Truman became president
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It haulted all progress of times for some time
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By the election of 1948 Truman had not achieved very much.
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Western European Nation Recived 13$ Billion between 1948-1951.
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Great Britain,France and the United States united there zones. The Soviets didn't like that what so ever so they responded with the Berlin Blockade
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Well the information is in the title he decided agent rerunning for president. While he was president he really didn't get that much done
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1953 Dwight Eisenhower took office as president
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They Built all the highways we have today back then. They laid forty thousand miles of blacktop.
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The nation moved into the space age when president Eisenhower.
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In 1959 Fidel Castro seized power in cuba.
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In 1960 Fidel Castro and the Soviet Union formed an alliance.
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About 30% of all married women were working outside there home.
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Kennedy announced that soviets had placed a long range missile in cuba
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It also marked a turning point in civil rights movement
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Began a series of freedom marches through birmingham Alabama
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a quarter of a million people marched through the streets of Washington D.C.
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Banned discrimination on the base of race and religion
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First opportunity came with his state of the union speech
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All but two members of congress voted in favor of the gulf of tonkin
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Off the coast of Vietnam in the golf of tonkin reported that north vietnamese patrol boats attacked them
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Piece walk out of selma stopped by sheriff. He had with him two hundred state troopers
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Around 1966 the phrases black is beautiful became popular
