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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Black Americans to gain equal rights under the law in the United States. -
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Vietnam War
It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. -
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The woman's movement
The feminist movement refers to a series of Social movements and Political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by the inequality between men and women -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores -
Assassination of US John F Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while traveling through Dallas, Texas. -
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Anti-Vietnam War campaign
Peace movement leaders opposed the war on moral and economic grounds. The North Vietnamese, they argued, were fighting a patriotic war to rid themselves of foreign aggressors. -
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Counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores. A countercultural movement expresses the ethos and aspirations of a specific population during a well-defined era. -
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Student movement
Students wanted to end the consensus culture that formed following the Second World War, eliminate racial discrimination, and free themselves from the authoritarian rule of the establishment -
Assassination of martin Luther king jr
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 -
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Gay rights movement
Civil rights movement that advocates equal rights for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender persons; seeks to eliminate sodomy laws barring homosexual acts between consenting adults; and calls for an end to discrimination