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**Korean War Begins**
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**The comic strip the peanuts is the first published**
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**22 Amendment created**
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Brown Vs. Board of Education
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**Rosenbergs Executed**
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg was U.S. citizen, the spied for soviet union. They stole plans for the nuclear bombs, to help the soviets obtain them. The U.S. being the only country to have then at the time. They were caught and tried. After the trail they were executed. -
Cuban revolution
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts
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Central High School integrated in Little rock, Arkansas
With the court case of Brown vs Board of education. The little rock high school was told to desegregate. After the law was passed nine African American students were still denied entrance to the school. They were met with so much resistance that the president Dwight D Eisenhower had to call out the Arkansas national guard and the 101st airborne. -
**Soviets launch Sputnik**
Soviet Union launched a low earth orbit satellite called Sputnik. The satellite traveled at 18,000mph and traveled around the earth for 3 month, going around 1440 times. When the Soviet union launched sputnik the U.S. went into chaos, fearing that the Soviet Union was spying on them. -
**Shippingport Atomic power station built**
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John Kennedy elected
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Freedom Riders
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The Feminine Mystique Is published
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Rachel Carson writes silent Spring
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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March on washington
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Assassination of John Kennedy
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Civil Rights Actsigned by Lyndon Johnson
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Man on the moon
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Assassination of Malcolm X
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March on Selma
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Medicare and Medicaid established
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Riots in Watts
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Cesar Chavez and farm workers strike
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Founding conference for NOW
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TET Offensive
The TET offensive , officially called the General offensive. It was a series of many surprise attacks on south Vietnam and American held bases and cities. it was also, the largest single military operation of the Vietnam war. Through out the attacks, America and the south Vietnamese, temporally lost some bases and cities. They quickly regrouped and took back the lost territory, -
Massacre at My Lai
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Assassination of Robert Kenndy
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Woodstock
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Nixon becomes President
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**The Beatles break up**
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First Earth Day observed
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Kent state Protesters Killed
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Title IX (sport) is passed
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ERA Passes Congress as a proposed amendment
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SALT 1 summit
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watergate scandal
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**U.S. signs peace pact ending vietnam**
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OPEC oil embargo
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Wounded Knee and FBI clash
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Roe vs. Wade passed
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Lyndon Johnson re-elected to Presidency
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Nixon resigns and Ford becomes President
In the Watergate Scandal, the Nixon administration bugged the Watergate hotel, to spy on political opponents. After being discovered and going to court, Nixon held tapes and refused to turn over them to the courts. After a series of court battles, Nixon had to give up the tapes but gave he gave the courts edited version. after the court battles, he knew he was gonna be impeached, so he resigned. -
**200 year bicentennial for U.S.**
