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The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Disney–ABC Television Group. A subsidiary of Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.
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A state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats and propaganda. A proxy war between the USSR and the US
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President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy.
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An American initiative to aid Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion. The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, make Europe prosperous again, and prevent the spread of communism.
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The practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. McCarthyism prosecuted anyone who they thought had a hand in the commuist party.
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As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. After some early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting stalled and casualties mounted with nothing to show for them.
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Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. Dwight D. Eisenhower obtained a truce in Korea and worked incessantly during his two terms to ease the tensions of the Cold War.
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The national effort made by black people and their supporters in the 1950s and 1960s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights. The first large episode in the movement, a boycott of the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
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United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision, separate but equal.
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The first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It is the only theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney.
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14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman. The two men who killed him beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body into the river.
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The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and it's ally the United States. The war was unpopular with the American people leading to the U.S. withdrawal.
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A political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. A federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
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A group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas
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The launch of Sputnik by the USSR began the space race. The United States wanted to catch up and began its own space program.
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The movement against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War began small–among peace activists. Gained national prominence in 1965, after the United States began bombing North Vietnam.
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Wallace was a four-time governor of Alabama. He is best remembered for his 1960s segregationist politics.
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The 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m., in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy.
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Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th president of the United States creating a policy called the “Great Society”. Many of the programs he introduced–including Medicare and Head Start–made a lasting impact in the areas of health, education, urban renewal, conservation and civil rights.
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Hippies were generally dissatisfied with the consensus culture that had developed after the Second World War and wanted to distance themselves from American society. Members of the counterculture held convictions they wanted to overhaul domestic policy within the United States.
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President Lyndon Johnson announced that U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by the North Vietnamese. Johnson dispatched U.S. planes against the attackers and asked Congress to pass a resolution to support his actions.
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Malcolm X, was an American Muslim minister and a human rights activist. Malcom wanted separation between the black and white communities not segregation.
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The police has to read you your rights before they arrest you. This had a significant impact on law enforcement in the United States, by making what became known as the Miranda rights part of routine police procedure to ensure that suspects were informed of their rights.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. His efforts during the Civil Rights Movement lead to his assassination in 1968.
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The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, brother of assassinated President John Kenndey took place in Los Angeles, California. Kennedy was shot as he walked through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel and died in the Good Samaritan Hospital twenty-six hours later.
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Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974 when he became the only U.S. president to resign the office.
Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China in 1972 opened diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he initiated détente with the Soviet Union. -
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface.
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The Woodstock Music Festival–draws to a close after three days of peace, love and rock ‘n’ roll in upstate New York. Later, the term “Woodstock Nation” would be used as a general term to describe the youth counterculture of the 1960s.
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Seventies Disco was born on Valentine's Day 1970, when David Manusco opened The Loft in New York City, and it rapidly faded in 1980. When the Disco movement peaked in 1978-79, the demographic was predominantly white, heterosexual, urban and suburban middle class.
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Congress passed the 26th amendment on March 23, 1971. You have the right to vote at 18, if you can go to war at 18.
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The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s. A break-in at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement.
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The Supreme Court case that held that the Constitution protected a woman's right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus. The government regulation of abortions must meet strict scrutiny in judicial review.
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Kodak engineer Steven Sasson created the first digital camera. He got the assignment to come up with an application for CCDs and decided on a camera with no moving parts, recording in a digital format.
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A group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. The immediate cause of this action was President Jimmy Carter’s decision to allow Iran’s deposed Shah,to come to the United States for cancer treatment.
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Music in the 1980s was all about image and with the advent and popularity of MTV, the images that accompanied artists became more important than ever. There were also several new genres that popped up including, Hip Hop, New Wave and Hair Metal.
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Former Beatle John Lennon, the 40-year-old lead singer of the most popular rock group in history, was shot to death by Mark David Chapman. As he stepped from a limousine outside his home in the Dakota, an exclusive apartment building on Central Park West and 72d St..
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During the campaign of 1980, Ronald Reagan announced a recipe to fix the nation's economic mess. Reagan proposed a phased 30% tax cut for the first three years of his Presidency.
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John Hinckley, Jr.shoots President Ronald Reagan outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington D.C.. Hinckley was armed with a .22 revolver with exploding bullets and was only ten feet away from Reagan when he began shooting.
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HIV is a human immunodeficiency virus.Over time, HIV can destroy so many of your CD4 cells that your body can't fight infections and diseases anymore, eventually leading to AIDS the final stage of HIV.
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As the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country’s borders.
