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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, and was arrested. As a result Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. organized a bus boycott to protest Montgomery Bus Laws. -
Civil Rights Act
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U.S. troops occupy Lebanon
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Kennedy elected president
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Berlin Crisis, Bay of Pigs
Berlin Crisis- Conflict between the U.S and the USSR concerning Berlin, lead to the Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs- Failed U.S invasion attempt on Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
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War on Washington,"I have a dream speech"
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JFK Assasinated
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Malcom X assasinated
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France withdraws from Nato
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., election of Richard Nixon as president
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Neil Armstrong lands on the moon
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Massacre at Kent State
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Pentagon papers published
proof that the robbery of the white house was an inside job -
cease fire in vietnam
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U.S. withdraws forces from vietnam