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The Korean War
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Ku Klux Klan
The Christmas eve bombing of the home of the NAACP by the white supremacist group -
The Space Race
The U.S. and Soviet Union race to be the first to get the space/the moon -
Desegregation of schools
Nine African American students enrolled in a previously all white school in Little Rock. -
The Berlin wall
GDR, East Germany constructed this wall to cut off West Berlin -
George Wallace takes office
Took his oath to be Governor of Alabama. -
Integration in University of Alabama.
The school was ordered to admit two African American students for the first time. -
Ping Pong Diplomacy
The US ping pong team played china in chine and were the first Americans in china since 1949 -
Vietnam War
US pulls out of war -
John Lennon's Murder
He was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of The Dakota, the building he lived in in NYC. -
Assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan
John Hinckley, Jr. shot President Reagan and three others only 69 days into Reagan's presidency at the Washington Hilton Hotel. -
Cold War
The New Reagan Doctrine formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments.