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Senator who investigates communists in the American Government.
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Harry Truman wins presidential election of 1948 upsetting the poll predictions
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Red China falls under communist rule of Mad Zedong. The creation of Peoples Republic of China.
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Queen Elizabeth was crowned the new queen of England.
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The best hitting catcher in baseball. Won his second MVP in 1953.
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In 1953 the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II.
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Where the Korean Armistice Agreement that paused the Korean war was signed in 1953.
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A battle happens in Dien Bien Phu Falls, Vietnam. After a four month siege led by the Vietnamese nationalist. The fall made the French pull out of the region.
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Rock Around the Clock was a song based on a novel called the Backboard Jungle.
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Disneyland was opened in 1955 inspired by Walt Disney wanting to make a theme park representing his characters.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott happen in Alabama which started on December 5,1955.
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The Suez crisis was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel.
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The Governor Orval Fabus order Arkansas National Ground to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central highschool.
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It was the first Artificial Earth Satellite launched by the USSR in 1957.
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Los Angeles Dodgers made their debut in their new home city, 2,796 miles from Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, where they had been playing since 1884.
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A version of a hulu hoop was made by Arthur Melin. He sold twenty million of them.
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A squirrel monkey was launched into outer space on a module of the Jupiter missile.
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When the USSR shot down an American U2 plane and captured the pilot Francis Gary Powers.
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A failed attempt to invade the southwestern side of Cuba by Americans.
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A riot started at the University of Mississippi because people were tired of the segregation laws.
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Malcolm gave a speech at the University of California about racial segregation.
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In 1965 birth control became legal.
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It was 3 days of drugs nudity scarce food and bad traffic. There were also many deaths.
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Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, philosopher, revolutionary, and politician. WHo returned to Iran in 1979
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A crack epidemic broke out in 1983
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Sally Ride was the first woman in space.
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Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, the Chinese People's Liberation Army played a decisive role in enforcing martial law, suppressing the demonstrations by force and upholding the authority of the Chinese Communist Party.