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Jimmy Hoffa arrested by FBI
He forged the first national freight-hauling agreement, sent to prison in 1967 for jury tampering, fraud, and conspiracy, 1975 disappeared-people say he was murdered -
1950 U.S. Census
The 1950 census encompassed the continental United States, the territories of Alaska and Hawaii, American Samoa, the Canal Zone, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands of the United States -
Korean War
The war began when North started to invade south and the United Nations stepped in to help -
Rosenberg’s espionage trial
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage, it was aid that they told the soviets secretes -
First Hydrogen bomb tests
Codename was Ivy Mike, detonated on nov1 1952 -
Presidential Election of 1952
Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democrat Adlai E.Stevenson -
CIA assists overthrow of government in Iran 1954
The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran -
Containment policy of communism
Strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad -
Polio vaccines begin
IPV is given as an injection in the leg or arm, depending on the patients age, may be given at the same time as other vaccines -
McCarthy Congressional hearings looking for communists
Investigated the US army and looking for communism -
U.S. government agrees to train Vietnamese soldiers in Vietnam
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Brown V. The Board of Education
declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional -
McDonald’s company founded by Ray Kroc
Founded a fast food restaurant that would soon become known worldwide -
U.S. government orders all public schools to be intergrated
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Disneyland opens
Disneyland opens July 17, 1955 -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat
she was told to move because white people had walked on the bus and she refused. She was soon arrested. -
Southern Congressmen resist desegregation with Southern Manifesto
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Federal Aid-Highway Act
Act to amend and supplement the federal-aid road act, approved by July 11,1916. This authorized appropriations for continuing the construction of highways. -
Presidential Election of 1956
Republican Dwight D Eisenhower, successfully ran for re-election, this was the rematch from the 1952 election -
National Guard called to Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School
White mod gathered in front of school as well has the National Guard to prevent blacks from entering. -
Alaska becomes a state
January 3, 1959 -
Hawaii becomes a state
August 21,1959 -
U.S. recognizes Fidel Castro as leader of Cuba
