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1955 - 1976
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Little Rock Nine - Social
As you can see in the picture all the people yelling and screaming, all trying to prevent this girl to get a education. Their only justifcation for that was the color of her skin. -
First Televised Presidential Debates - Intellectual
On 26 September 1960, 70 million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch Senator John Kennedy of Massachusetts and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first-ever televised presidential debate. It was themain reason why Nixon lost the campaign for President because of how his appearence was on T.V which was nervous, sweaty, and unconfident meanwhile Kennedy kept his cool. -
Peace Corps Founded - Political
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Soviets Launch First Man in Space - Intellectual
April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion - Economic
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was launched in April 1961, less than three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the United States -
Berlin Wall Built - Political
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First Person Killed Trying to Cross the Berlin Wall - Social
Peter Fechter was 18 years old -
Cuban Missle Crisis - Political
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JFK Assasinated - Political
President Kennedy was murdered at the height of the Cold War, just a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster. -
Civil Rights Act Passes in U.S. - Social
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New York City Great Blackout - Economic
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Mao Zedong Launches the Cultural Revolution - Political
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My Lai Massacre - Political
My Lai was a village of about 700 inhabitants. When the troops from 1 Platoon moved through the village they started to fire at the villagers. These were women, children and the elderly as the young men had gone to the paddy fields to work. -
"I have a Dream" - Social
This is one of the biggest speeches to date, MLK explained the importance of equal rights in his "I have a Dream" I'll let this quote, sum it up.
"When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city," -
Neil Armstrong Becomes the First Man on the Moon - Economic
On July 20, 1969, as part of the Apollo 11 mission, astronaut Neil Armstrong opened the hatch of the lunar module (nicknamed Eagle) and stepped out onto the ladder. Once at the bottom of the ladder, Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon and became the very first man on the moon. A few minutes later, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin followed him.
