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Rosa Parks
Does not give up her seat Orchestrated by NAACP, black citizens refuse to use bus line to hurt them with them economically. Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913. Parks was a Civil Rights Activist. She refused to give up her seat to a White passenger. -
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Martin Luther King jr
Martin was Civil rights leader, More peaceful than Malcom X.Martin was a baptist minister and social activist in the. Martin also lead the Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the mid to late 50's. Martin was assassinated in 1968. -
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Elvis
Broad rock music. Elvis was a Actor and Musician. he rose to fame in the 60's. he did go to radio and TV but died in 77 of a heart failure because of his addiction to prescription drugs. -
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Baby Boomers
After World War 2 the percent of of babies being born went up 20 percent more than 1945. After World war 2 people were ready for peace and prosperity, business boomed, families grew, people bought houses and interest rates built. -
Donald Trump
Trump was born in Queens, New York in 1946. Trump is a billionaire real estate mogul. He is also a former reality television personality. Trump is the 45th president in the United States. -
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Cold War
Rivalry between the U.S and Soviet Union (U.S.S.R) where they competed for influence around the world. They did not fight each other directly. -
Warsaw Pact
Established between the Soviet Union and seven of its European countries signed a treaty called the Warsaw pact. This particular treaty was named Warsaw pact because it was diffidently signed in Warsaw. This treaty included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as part of this treaty. -
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Vietnam War
Vietnam split into communist north under Ho Chi Minh and non-communist south under Ngo Dinh Diem. US escalated involvement from Advising to a Draft to Bombing And Invading Cambodia. Vietnam was the most bloodiest war in US history it had more deaths than any other war we were in. -
Berlin Wall & Berlin Aircraft
Berlin Aircraft: flying in food,fuel and supplies every day to keep West Berlin citizens going.
By 1960, 3 million had escaped escaped East Germany through Berlin, so the Soviets built the Berlin Wall to seal East Berlin from West Berlin. -
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Cuban missile crisis
13 day military and political standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba which was only 90 miles from US Shores. After 13 days of a military standoff The Soviet Union offered to remove the missiles only if the US promised to leave Cuba alone. -
Robert F. Kennedys Assasination
RFK was JFK's brother. On June 4, 1968 in Los Angeles, California at the Ambassador Hote he was walking through the kitchen and got hit with a .22 calibor pistol. 3 shots were fired (1 in the head and 2 in the chest). -
Watergate
Watergate was definitely a scandle caused by Richard Nixon. What happened was there were 5 men who broke into the demecrtic party headquarters. These burgalars were supposubly working with Nixon. -
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Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford was the 38th President. He was also with the republican party. He became president because Nixon was pardoned because of the Watergate Scandle that he (Nixon) caused. -
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Ronald Reagan
Reagon was a republican and he was govenor of California in 1967. He cut money in education which helped a lot of familys. Reagon put first woman justice on Supreme court. -
Challenger Explosion
The explosion happened on january 28, 1986. It was carrying its first civilain passanger. NASA wanted to revive the public interest in the space program. -
Persian Gulf War
The Gulf War was the most bloodest and devistating war in the world. There were 382 American casualties. Also there were about 100,000 Iraq casualties with about 300,000 wounded. -
Bill Cliton
Clinton was a Demecrart and was governor of Arkansas. he did the Health care reform.Cliton also sent 20,000 troops to Bosnia. -
9/11
9/11 was a terrorist attack from Al Qaeda. Two planes crashed into the Twin Towers when there were originally four planes that we sent out. Another crashed in to the Pentagon and the last was said to supposed to hit the White House in Washington but never made it all the way it ended up crashing in a field in Shanksville,Pennsylvania but and never made it because its crew and passengers fought back at the hijackers. -
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Hurricane Katrina vs. Hurricane Harvey
Katrina was originally a catagory 5 hurricane when it first started with winds up to 157 mph but then when it hit land it went down to a catagory 3 with 115-130 mph winds. 80% of the city of New Oralands. Around 70 countrys gave money to repare New Orlands. Harvey was a catagory 4 with 130-156 mph winds. There were in total 52 inches of rain. Harvey was in total 280 miles wide.
