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North Korea invaded South Korea and the U.N sent in troops
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Republican Dwight Eisenhower elected as 34th President of the United States, defeating Adlai Stevenson
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The foreign ministers of nineteen nations, including the United States, decided to divide Vietnam at seventeen north lattitude.
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Created to oppose the spread of communism in Southeast Asia after France's withdrawal from Indochina.
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Supreme Court cas that challenged "separate but equal" ruling established in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Chief Justice Earl Warren held that separate was inherently unequal and instructed states to integrate. -
African American woman who refused to giver her bus seat to a white in Alabama.
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Britain, France, and Israel invaded to gain control of the Canal. Fearing escalation, Eisenhower forced France, Britain, and Isreal to withdraw.
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The interstate highway system was expanded to 41,000 miles.
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First civil rights act since Reconstruction. Stimulated by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and civil rights activism. Created a panel to ensure that voting rights of African Americans were not violated.
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The NAACP registered nine African American students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus used the Arkansas National Guard to try and block the students from entering the school. President Eisenhower intervened with federal troops.
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Created as a partial reaction to the Suez Canal crisis. The doctrine committed forces and economic aid to the Middle East to stop Communist threats.
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Soviet satellite launched into space, first unmanned spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity.