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End of WWII
News of the surrender broke in the West on May 8, and celebrations erupted throughout Europe. -
Brown V. Board of Education Decision
Was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks Incidemt
Parks, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The boycott was triggered by Rosa Parks arrest. She was arrested, because she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, when she was sitting in the colored area. As a result, Rosa Parks is considered one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement. -
Little Rock Nine Incident
The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement -
Sputnik Launched
Was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. -
U-2 Incident
Was when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro -
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Cuban Missle Crisis
was a confrontation among the Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States in October 1962, during the Cold War. In September 1962, after some unsuccessful operations by the U.S. to overthrow the Cuban regime, Bay of Pigs, Operation Mongoose, the Cuban and Soviet governments began to build bases in Cuba for a number of medium-range and intermediate-range ballistic nuclear missiles with the ability to strike most of the continental United States. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr., an American civil rights leader. He wrote it to his fellow clergymen. -
March on Washington
Was a political rally in support of civil and economic rights for African Americans, that took place in Washington, D.C..