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In the early 1950's the generation was called the Baby Boomer Generation because this is a time when there were large families
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Mccarythy a political figure from Wisconsin has a list of people in the country who were for communis,
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Rosa Parks tries to sit in the white section of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama and gets arrested. Eventually people will start to boycott this bus company
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low cost easy to build housing became a thing and this is when tvs first became popular
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Black students were not to enter this school. The National Guard got involved and had to escort people throughout school
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This was the election agains JFK and Nixon in which JFK would become president. JKF was also a verteran of WW11 and was a part of the first televised debate.
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This took place in Cuba where Castro was the ruler and many got killed. The US had to bargain with Castro
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The Soviet Union put missiles into Cuba to keep the US from attacking. The US then told the whole world about it and that there was going to be a Naval Forces quarinitne. Soviets reomoved the missiles so the US would not invade.
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JFK gets shot during a parade in Birmingham
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LBJ takes over and gets JFK's civil rights act passed
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Divided North and South Vietnam based on communism
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Major attack against the US and Soviet on Chineese New Year using fire
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Richard Nixon wins and takes over as President
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Women wanted equal rights and for sexism to stop
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Richard ran for second term and was thought to have some of his staff go into the Watergate apartment and commit a burglary. After this political scam he resigns