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Stalin and President Truman meet at the Potsdam Confrence
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The CIA is formed to collect information and spy on foreign governments.
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Communist leader Mao Zedong gets control of mainland China in a civil war.
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North Korea invades U.S. supported South Korea.
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The United States tests their hydrogen bomb for the first time, code named "Mike" for megaton.
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The korean war ends in a truths.
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The Korean war ends and U.S. tropps leave South Korea.
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Brown vs. Board of Education court case made it so that racial segregation in schools was not allowed.
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African-Americans start the Montgomery Bus Boycott to try and stop public descrimination
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The Soviet Union launches its first satelite into outer space, named Sputnik 1.
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The National Defense Education Act is put into place which provided funding to United States schools.
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On October 1st 1958, NASA is formed after NACA is taken down.
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John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th U.S. president.
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The 23rd amendment allows citizens in the District of Columbia to vote while not being an actual state.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis starts and puts countries on the brink of nuclear war.
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John F. Kennedy dies in a succesfful assassination attempt. Lyndon B. Johnson takes his place as the president.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed racial discrimination in public such as schools, voting applications, workplace, and public facilities.
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An act passed to outlaw discrimination in voting
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Neil Armstrong is the first man to set foot on the moon.
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