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France joins the UN
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US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa
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Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops
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FDR sworn-in for an unprecedented 4th term as president
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USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany, 159,000 die
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30,000 US Marines land on Iwo Jima
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World War II ends 8 days later
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tensions rise between United States and Soviet Union
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record amount of births in a period of economic growth and increased consumerism leads to the most dominant and self-conscious generation in American history.
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announcing the U.S. would do everything in its power to contain communism
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providing American aid in rebuilding western and southern Europe, advances the Cold War significantly
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Berlin Airlift shows American resolve against the spread of communism and Soviet aggression
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Creation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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Republicans use event to paint Democrats as “soft on communism”
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Korean War
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Although he has no such list, McCarthy builds upon national fear of communism to make himself the nation’s most powerful individual. Eventually falls in 1954 after accusing the military of communist sympathies. Nonetheless, McCarthy defines the 1950s as a decade of suppression of left-leaning thought and action.
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U.S. tests hydrogen bomb
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beginning of science fiction films standing in for American fears about the Cold War
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First rock and roll concert in Cleveland
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Black children were not permitted into a white public school; they had to go to another school for just black students. The black students got the same equipment, and where supposed to be treated as the white students where.
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signaling an end to the great period of American labor organizing.
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The bus boycott happened in Montgomery, Alabama it was to oppose the policy of racial segregation on the local bus. December 1st Rosa Parks an African American lady was asked to move to the back of the bus for a white person could have her seat. At this she refused and the supreme court declared that laws requiring segrega
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leading to massive government investment in road building and disinvestment in American downtowns and public transportation
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The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional.