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N. Korean soldiers crossed over the 38th parallel in an attempt to impose communism on S. Korea. The casualty toll had been reported as 54,246 and included casualties of US soldiers.
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President Truman launched a broadcast in San Francisco to officially announce the agreement of a peace treaty with Japan. With the cooperation with Japan, Truman agreed to rebuild the country only under the influence of Democracy. It became a country with a new constitution and got rid of old militaristic laws. The Multilateral Treaty of Peace was ratified by the U.S. Congress on March 20, 1952.
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Kennedy saw the protests of the Freedom Riders as a non-win situation at first. To avoid embarrassing headline, however he did not want t interfere. Soon he came to help the fellow Freedom Riders on their dangerous journey. Robert Kennedy sent federal marshals to protect the Freedom Riders during a siege in Montgomery, Alabama. But even armed marshals couldn't stop the violence.
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President Kennedy died on the day of November 11,1963. JFK was shot and killed off impact of a caliber sniper rifle in the back seat of his car. He was in Texas with his wife and also Texas Govenor John Connally who was in front of him. https://www.google.com/amp/gizmodo.com/stabilized-footage-of-the-jfk-assassination-is-unsettli-1465136863/amp
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The u.s invades Cambodia which makes the war in Vietnam last longer sparking protest around the country , Four students are killed at Kent state during the protest
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Nixon administration wire taps DNC head quarters in Washington D.C and tries to cover up the whole ordeal , investigation took several years but started with five men arrested for breaking ik DNC
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The Three Mile Island accident was a nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Its aftermath brought about astonishing changes involving emergency response planning, reactor operator training, radiation protection, and other areas of nuclear power plant operations. It was the worst accident in the U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history and resulted in the release of small amounts of radioactive gases.
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Ronald Reagan wins in a landslide victory against Jmmmy carter
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The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.Chernobyl is still abandoned to this day because the environment is still intoxicated. It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and is the only level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale.The
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Ended a facist movement, purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border wheneverhttp://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall/videos/fall-of-the-berlin-wall
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42nd president of the the United States , later would get involved in the Lewinsky scandal which led to his impeachment.
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After a series of revolutions in Soviet Bloc states, and a failed coup by conservative elements opposed to the ongoing reforms, the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and the Cold War came to an end
