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This was the first meeting to take place between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. They did not come to any agreements but it helped to ease tensions.
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Rosa Parks was arrested on this day for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a bus. This sparked the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and was a pivotal moment in the fight for racial equality.
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This nearly 20 year-long war is perhaps the most controversial war in American history. America joined South Vietnam in a war against communist North Vietnam and many Americans opposed the idea of needlessly sending troops overseas to deal with foreign conflict. North Vietnam won the war and established communism.
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On this day, the Soviets launched the first-ever man-made satellite into orbit. This drastically increased tensions in the Cold War as it opened up a new form of warfare and made Americans fear that the Soviets were more technologically advanced than them.
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United States Sataliette found Soviet Nuclear Missiles stationed in Cuba. This called an immediate panic as the launching of these missiles would cause massive amounts of deaths to the US. A deal was worked out between the two powers and the missiles were removed.
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President John F. Kennedy gets assassinated by communist sympathizer Lee Harvey Oswald why in a motorcade in Dallas Texas.
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The most impactful civil rights leader and proponent, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated MLK at the Loraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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5 men are found planting listening devices at the Democratic National Convention at the Watergate Hotel in Washington DC. This would lead to Richard Nixon's resignation.
