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End of World War 2
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Baby Boom
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The Truman Doctrine
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Communist takeover
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National Atlantic Treaty Organization
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The Korean War
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Treaty That Ended the War
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Dwight D. Eisinhower becomes president
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Joseph Stalins Death
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Development of Hydrogen bombs
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The Warsaw Pact
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Hungarian Revolution
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Sputnik
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U-2 Spy Incident
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JFK gives "Man on the Moon" speech
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Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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Nuclear Test ban Treaty
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I Have a Dream Speech
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Vietnam War
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Chinease Cultural Revolution
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Tet Offensive
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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Fair Housing Act
e Civil Rights Act of 1968, is a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, or national origin and made it a federal crime to “by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone -
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovak
soviet invasion Chechoclovak uader Alexander Dubcek intoduced greater freedom of expression and limited emocracy
