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A period of increased tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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A period of increased tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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A drastic increase in births in the United States especially among the middle class and suburban populace of the United States
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The gradual increase of the suburban populace of the United States from 37 million to 74 million.
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The defeat of French colonial forces in French Indochina by the anti-imperialist communist troops of the Viet Cong.
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The formation of the Warsaw Pact, a series of communist states that had gathered together in response to the creation of NATO.
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The legal battle between Sarah Keys and the Carolina Coach Company over her right to sit in what was generally considered to be a white person's seat.
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The horrific murder of fourteen year-old Emmett Till for supposedly whistling at a white women.
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An incident in which an African American women by the name of Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.
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The launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik and the inception of the Space Race.
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The death of the radical anti-communist McCarthy.
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A precursor to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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An escalation of incidents regarding space exploration during the Cold War.
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The founding of the Advanced Research Project Agency, what would later become known as DARPA.
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The establishment of the space exploration, experimentation, and colonization division of the United States government.
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The publication of the book Affluent Society by author and Harvard professor John Kenneth Galbraith.
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The launch of the Soviet Luna 2 satellite, which was the first man-made object to touch the moon.
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The victory of the communist revolutionaries against the Cuban government.
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The victory of the communist revolutionaries against the Cuban government.
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The Greensboro Sit-in was the act of four African-American teenagers who chose to remain in seats typically reserved for white men.
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The rise of a militant civil rights organization known as the Black Panthers, which at times operated in a moral standing and at other times like a terrorist organization.
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The launch of the first American into space, named Alan Shepard.
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Kennedy's victory over the incumbent Nixon.
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The deployment of Soviet nuclear armaments to the allied Cuba and the United States response to said deployments.
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The successful launch of the first human being into space by the Soviets, this was an immense milestone in human history, perhaps the greatest of Cold War era.
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The full enrollment of the first African-American student in the University of Mississippi, a young man by the name of James Meredith.
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A series of incredibly important events in the history of Civil Rights, including the jailing of Martin Luther King Jr. and a series of riots across the United States regarding Civil Rights.
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The speech made by Martin Luther King Jr. outlining his view of a future world in which his children would not live in fear.
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The assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald in the Texas city of Dallas.
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The creation of the Civil Rights Act, which allowed for the enforcement of the Brown v. Education.
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Essentially a declaration of war passed by the United States government after the most likely justified attack of Viet Cong naval forces on the USS Maddox.
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A series of largely economic reforms that Lyndon B. Johnson enacted in order to reduce the poverty crisis.
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A conflict between American troops and the NVA/Viet Cong enacted in an attempt to curb the rising tide of communism.
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The persecution of African-American protesters by white police officers.
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An act passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to prevent further voting discrimination in Southern states specifically.
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The Woodstock musical concert.
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The formation of the Environmental Protection Agency.