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A specialized agency of the United Nations charged with coordinating and regulating international air travel.
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It was a policy which stated that the US would give aid to any country threatened by communism.
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A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950-1953, in which the United States along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans while China fought on the side of the North Koreans.
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Widespread accusations and investigations of suspected Communist activity.
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A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
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A civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating.
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The USSR rocketed to the lead in the Cold War's "Space Race" with the launch of Sputnik, a basketball-sized satellite that became the first manmade object to orbit the Earth.
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35 day confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union.
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35 day confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union.
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A quarter of a million people rallied in Washington, D.C. to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections.
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Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.
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Outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
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A coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.
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Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He was pronounced dead at 1:44 a.m. PDT the following day.
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American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon.
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The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's persistent attempts to cover up its involvement in the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C., Watergate Office Building.
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Court ruled with a 7-2 decision in 1973 for Jane Roe that a woman's right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits states from "depriv[ing] any person of liberty without due process of law."
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A terrorist act which triggered the most serious crisis of the Carter Presidency and began a struggle/problem for Jimmy Carter and the American people that lasted 444 days