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United States (as part of the United Nations) and South Korea vs. North Korea and Communist China.The beginning of a long and tedious war.
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a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs.
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Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines.Tis led to a full-on war against eachother.
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The first test of a hydrogen bomb prototype was the "Ivy Mike" nuclear test in 1952, conducted by the United States. The first ready-to-use thermonuclear bomb "RDS-6s" was tested on in the Soviet Union.
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US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.some malfunctions took place.
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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
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While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His assailants–the white woman’s husband and her brother–made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes.
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This was invented to help soldiers with shoe tying..then it became a world known fastening product.
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The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school.
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NASA Founded by president Dwight D. Eisenhower.increasing many space technologies.
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Kitchen Debate Between Nixon and Khrushchev over various things.
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tensions between Vietnam and the U.S. became to high and thus began the Vietnam war
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an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government , an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba.
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The man sits impassively in the central market square, he has set himself on fire performing a ritual suicide in protest against governmental anti-Buddhist policies.
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President Kennedy, accompanied by the First Lady, travelled to Texas, where he was scheduled to make a number of appearances in a bid to drum up support for the Democratic Party prior to the 1964 general election.He was then shot in his car along with the secretary of state.
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the first james bond movie was made.
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a Hollywood actor, singer and dancer who was later elected a United States Senator from California,
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4,000 demonstrated against the U.S. war in London outside the U.S. Embassy a number are arrested
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A launch pad fire during Apollo program tests at Cape Canaveral, Florida, kills astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chafee which had to do with faulty electrical wiring
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee at age 39.
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as part of the Apollo 11 mission, astronaut Neil Armstrong opened the hatch of the lunar module (nicknamed Eagle) and stepped out onto the ladder,then onto the moon.
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Ohio National Guardsmen were maintain order during a student protest against the Vietnam War And one shot 4 student dead and wounded 9 others.
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Bought by the Robert P. McCulloch the London Bridge was Brought to the U.S
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competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.After 17 years the U.S won the competition.
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The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s. as a result break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington.
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Roe (P), a pregnant single woman, brought a class action suit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas abortion laws. These laws made it a crime to obtain or attempt an abortion except on medical advice to save the life of the mother.
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After 20 years of fighting the Vietnam war was finally over. according to the president the war was officially over.
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he United States presidential election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election. The winner was the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate, over the incumbent President Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate.
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was a worldwide phenomenon, but its popularity declined in the United States in the late 1970s. On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago was formed.
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John Lennon was an English musician who gained worldwide fame as one of the members of The Beatles, for his subsequent solo career.He was shot by Mark David Chapman in the archway of the building where he lived.
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The attempted assassination of United States President Ronald Reagan occurred 69 days into his presidency. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.,
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A popular term used to refer to the economic policies of Ronald Reagan which called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets.
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Start of the so called best decade of the 20th century and Hubble Space Telescope launched during Space Shuttle Discovery mission.
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In 1983, scientists discovered the virus that causes AIDS. The virus was at first named HTLV-III/LAV (human T-cell lymphotropic virus-type III/lymphadenopathy-associated virus by an international scientific committee. This name was later changed to HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
