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Refugee policies were incorporated into immigration regulation by using the McCarran-Walter Act in order to get rid of over thirty million dislocated Europeans
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In 1955, the US Border patrol launched the "Operation Wetback" program to deport undocumented migrants, but the number of undocumented Mexican workers increased again after the Bracero Program
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Secretary Bette Nesmith Graham
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Spanish Guinea and Western Sahara gained their independence from Spain between 1956 and 1975
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Hungry fell to Russia on November 10, 1956
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South America: The military government fell in Venezuela after being under military personnel for 10 years
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North America: The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students who enrolled in the all-white Central High School in 1957
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Richard Kheer and Arthur Melin
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proposed the Great Leap Forward
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added two new states to the United States
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Africa: Walter Sisulu attends a secret meeting
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Most French colonies in Black Africa became independent in 1960
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After bloody riots in 1959, the Belgian Government quickly yeilded to demands for indepedence in 1960
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Berlin wall built and borders sealed between East and West Germany
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Jailed in 1962 for the leadership of African National Congress and was elected president of South Africa 4 years after he was released
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US spy plane reported a sighting of "Soviet Nuclear missile in Cuba and the US agreed not to invade Cuba
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Asia: The Tokyo Olympic Games are hosted for the first time ever in Asia
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Douglas Engelbart
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Europe: Churchill calls the Warsaw Pact equivalent of forming an "Iron Curtain" across Europe, and the Cold War Depens
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Automobiles and highways were essential to suburban growth, in addition, Americans owned 25 million cars in 1945 and by 1965, that that number tripled to 75 million cars
