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Harry Truman
Harry Truman became the 33rd president. The Democrat defeated Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey. -
Red China
Mao Zedong, the Chinese communist leader, created the PRC, or the Peoples' Republic of China. -
Panmunjom
A truce conference took place here for two years between the UN and North Korea. -
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen of the United Kingdom and 15 other Commonwealth realms. -
Rosenberg Couple
A husband and wife that passed atomic to the Soviets during World War II. -
Joe Mccarthy
A senator who started an investigation looking for communists in the American government. -
Roy Campanella
Campanella is one of the best hitting catchers in baseball. He won a second MVP in 1953 and his third in 1955. -
Dien Bien Phu falls
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu falls is the First Indochina War that took place between March 13th and May 7th, 1954. -
"Rock Around the Clock"
"Rock Around the Clock" was the first rock'n'roll record heard by millions of people worldwide. -
Disneyland
The famous Disney opened a $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California. -
Alabama 1955
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama. This was to break segregation laws. -
Trouble in the Suez
In 1956 Britain, France, and Israel invaded Egypt to recover control of the Suez Canal. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. They played an important role in allowing the right of equal education between black and white students. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union. -
California baseball
The Dodgers and Giants played their first six official National League games as representatives of their new cities on the West Coast. The Giants won four of those games. -
Hula Hoops
Arthur Melin applied for a patent on his version of the "hula hoop". Once he got it, he sold 20 million the first six months. -
Space Monkey
The US sent monkeys into space, bringing them back alive. -
U2
An American U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defence in 1960. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
It was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 -
Ole Miss
This a riot for the fight against segregation. -
Malcolm X
He gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley. It was when he declared racial separatism as the best approach to the problems facing black America. -
Birth Control
The Supreme Court ruled in Griswold v. Connecticut that it was unconstitutional for the government to prohibit married couples from using birth control. Single women were still denied the use of the contraceptive. -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a huge music festival held for three days. More than 400,000 people attended. -
Ayatollah's in Iran
Ayatollah was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, philosopher, revolutionary, and politician. The term Ayatollah became an honorific title for high-ranking Twelver Shia clergy in Iran and Iraq that came into widespread usage in the 20th century. -
Crack
Crack became a major drug in the United States between the 1980s and the 1990s. -
Sally Ride
Sally, the 32-year-old woman, becomes the first American woman in space. -
China's under martial law
During protests in 1989, the PLA (Chinese peoples liberation army) enforced martial law. They did this by force and upheld the authority of the communist party.