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He married Marilyn Monroe and was a popular baseball star for the Yankees.
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Walter Winchell was a top gossip reporter, whose newspaper column and radio show could make or break a celebrity.
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A highly popular broadway musical and movie.
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He ended WW2 and led America into the Korean War.
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She started singing and touring with the Les Brown Band at age 16. She made her first movie in 1949 and soon became a popular movie star and singer.
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Johnnie Ray came to Hollywood in 1949 as a partially deaf musician.
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Communists took control of China and it was named Red China by America to show that thy were communist.
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The 37th US president. He resigned from office.
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He was a senator for Wisconsin and he was known for his brutal interrogations of suspects.
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A popular car. The company went out of business in 1966.
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Korea was split after World War 2. North Korea attacked South Korea which started the Korean War.
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A movie star and sex symbol. She died under suspicious circumstances.
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They were in black an white.
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Two people who were arrested and executed for selling atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.
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A popular Broadway play.
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An extremely popular book among teens because was the epitome of their thoughts and attitudes.
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A boxing champion who was popular.
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Marlon Brando was a became a top movie actor. He was popular for his mumbling and brooding.
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Panmunjom, Korea is where negotiations between the United states led by the United states and the Communist North Koreans to end the Korean war took place.
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A hydrogen bomb was created under the guidance of Edward Teller. The Soviet Union then copied the U.S and blew up their own version.
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The 34th president of the United States of America.
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Queen Elizabeth 2 took control of England from her father.
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Jonas Salk discovered the cure to polio, a disease that killed many over time.
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A popular pianist and entertainer. He was a ladies man and wore fancy clothes.
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He retired undefeated as a boxer.
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George Santayana died in 1952
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Georgy Malenkov was a Soviet politician and Communist Party leader, and a close collaborator of Joseph Stalin.
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A Soviet Union dictator.
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Sergei Sergeyevich was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor.
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USSR and their satellite countries formed what was called the Communist bloc.
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Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller were grandsons of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser was the second President of Egypt after Muhammad Naguib. He was considered one of the more influential Arab leaders in history.
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Roy Campanella was the all-star catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. His career was cut short by a paralyzing car accident.
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Juan Peron was a leader in Argentina and was very anti-British and anti-American.
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The French lose control over Indo-China—now known as Vietnam—with the fall of the city Dien Bien Phu.
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wonder-material Dacron hit the market.
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Bill Haley and the Comets came out with what was considered the first rock-and-roll hit song, Rock Around the Clock. It was the theme music for the popular movie Blackboard Jungle.
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Roy Cohn was the advisor to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the McCarthy Hearings on Communists in the movie industry and government.
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Singer Elvis Presley became a national phenomenon with such number-one hit songs as Heartbreak Hotel, Don't Be Cruel and Hound Dog.
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Einstein developed the Theory of Relativity in 1903 and was considered one the world's smartest scientists. He became a popular figure in the later years of his life. He died in 1955.
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Disneyland opened in 1955 in Anaheim, California.
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James Dean was a movie star who became a symbol of young people for his role in the movie Rebel Without a Cause. He was the only one killed in a vehicle accident.
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The Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team finally won the World Series over the New York Yankees. They later moved to Los Angeles.
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Davy Crockett was a in a v role played by Fess parker
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Brigitte Bardot was a french actress, model, and singer.
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Egypt was invaded.
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Rosa parks didn't move from her seat.
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A soviet union leader.
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A famous book.
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Egypt was invaded.
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He was a leader of the S.U after Joseph Stalin died.
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Grace Kelly left Hollywood to marry a Prince.
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A famous book.
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An actress that married a prince.
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There were anti-communist riots and S.U officers arrested many students and other people.
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Rosa Parks would not give up he sat to a white man.
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Arturo Toscanini was a world-famous conductor, considered to have been one of the greatest classical conductors of all time.
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The first satellite.
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The first orbiting satellite.
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Black students entered a school and police officers kept them from entering. The crisis gained massive attention.
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He was a poet and writer.
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A baseball player.
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An author of a famous book author. He later became an alcoholic.
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He was a popular administrator. He was also a minister.
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He was a famous author that died because of being an alcoholic.
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Black men tried to get into school and they were held back by police officers.
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He was a poet and author.
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A baseball star.
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A famous movie.
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He was an administrator and minister.
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The leader of France.
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Baseball teams moved places.
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He was a serial killer.
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Riots were occurring and the US stepped in to help.
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Children were born without ligaments.
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A popular singer.
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Monkeys sent to space that had successful flights.
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Hula Hoops were created.
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The car didn't work out.
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A famous movie.
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Leaders that went to NYC.
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Dictator of Cuba.
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He created a popular song.
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Gained freedom from Belgium.
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Kennedy was elected president.
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A popular thriller movie.
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The first president of South Korea.
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Disk jockeys were exposed.
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A former Nazi leader.
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A famous book.
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A famous author who committed suicide.
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A famous singer.
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The Berlin wall was destroyed.
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People were sent over from America to overthrow Castro but were unsuccessful.
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A famous movie.
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The Beatles were a popular group.
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Mississippi admitted its first black student
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The first man to orbit Earth
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He was a boxer.
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He became the Pope.
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A Black rights activist.
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Kennedy was assassinated.
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A sex scandal with government and showgirls.
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Birth Control became an issue.
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Nixon fought for the presidency title.
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The first man on the moon.
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The biggest rock concert ever.
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Nixon resigned due to crime.
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Punk rock bands.
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A Prime Minister of Israel.
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Palestinians protested bad treatment by the Israelis.
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Once an actor but became president.
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Many planes were take over.
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The US and Iran were supporting countries.
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S.U went into Afghanistan.
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A famous T.V show.
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The first woman on a space crew.
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Heavy Metal became popular and suicide rates went up.
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A burden on American taxpayers.
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Veterans of Vietnam became homeless.
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This disease started to spread.
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Cocaine was popular.
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A killer.
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Needles were found on the beach.
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China went under martial law.
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Pepsi and Coke battle for the better soda.
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Hubble Space Telescope launched during Space Shuttle Discovery
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The Gulf War is waged in the Middle East
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A heat wave killed 750 people in Chicago.
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TWA Flight 800 explodes off Long Island killing all 230 aboard.
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Along with the rest of the world, the U.S. prepares for the possible effects of the Y2K bug in computers, which was feared to cause computers to become inoperable and wreak havoc.
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U.S. forces continue fighting an insurgency in Iraq while helping the Iraqis build a new army of their own and develop a democratic form of government
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Hurricane Katrina devastates the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coastlines killing at least 1,836 people and causing $81 billion in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
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George W. Bush orders a troop surge which substantially increases the number of U.S. troops in Iraq and ultimately leads to reductions in casualties and major victories for coalition and Iraqi forces
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President Barack Obama is re-elected over Republican candidate Mitt Romney in the presidential election.
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Omar Mateen kills 49 people and injures 53 at the Pulse gay nightclub, in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.
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Hadyn, Cheyenne, Avilon, Stephen, Jacob, Hannah, and Aubrey compete in OOTM and take 6th place.