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U.S drops a atomic bomb on Japan and 8 days laer World War II ends.
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Unveiling of Truman Doctrine, announcing the U.S. would do everything in its power to contain communism
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Creation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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U.S. tests hydrogen bomb for the first time.
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Supreme Court declares segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education
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Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by a young Martin Luther King.
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President Eisenhower signs Interstate Highway Act, leading to massive government investment in road building and disinvestment in American downtowns and public transportation
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USSR launches Sputnik, beginning of Space Rac.
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East Germans raise Berlin Wall
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U.S. and Soviet Union come dangerously close to nuclear war
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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Birmingham campaign of civil rights movement, Martin Luther King leads March on Washington to pressure President Kennedy to support civil rights legislation
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Martin Luther King takes civil rights movement to the North; violent protests against housing desegregation in Chicago.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee
