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The Cold War starts
*Cold war- a result of the tension between America vs. the Soviet Union as well as Communist vs. Capitalism
*Communism- government owned
*Capitalism- privately owned
*The Cold war was a series of propaganda and proxy wars.
*Proxy wars- when two countries each choose a smaller one to represent them and the smaller countries fight against each other.
*Once the Soviet Union was suspicious of a heavily trafficked place being a secret meeting place. (it was only a hot dog stand!) -
Korean War starts
*Korean war- Proxy war of the Cold war
*During the Korean war the U.S. had South Korea and the Soviet Union had North Korea
*36,000 U.S. troops killed
*1.6 million Korean civilians killed
*Dividing line is called the 38th parallel
*the 38th parallel is guarded 24 hrs. a day, 365 days a year.
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Civil Rights movement starts -Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus boycott
ROSA PARKS
*Rosa Parks was an African American seamstress who wouldn't give up her seat on the bus to a white man.
*She is often called the "Mother of the civil rights movement"
MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
*African Americans didn't ride any public buses.
*Rosa Parks arrest inspired this boycott.
*The boycott was 381 days long.
*Originally the plan was to have a two day strike, but it was so effective they decided to make it longer.
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The Vietnam War starts
*A Proxy war of the Cold War
*2/3 of the U.S. soldiers were volunteer
*11,000 of our military were women (some nurses)
*1 in 10 American soldiers were killed or wounded.
*3 million people killed over all
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1st dog in space
*The first animals in space were actually fruit flies(1947), but other than that Laika the dog was a first.
*Unfortunately Laika died. However, we are not sure if she died within hours, days, or a week.
*Laika was a mostly husky mix. A rescue from the streets of Moscow, Russia. -
Little Rock Nine
- Little Rock nine was when 9 African American students tried to enter a white high school after school segregation banning laws were past *Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas sent the National guard to block the 9 students from entering. *In response President Eisenhower sent the U.S. Army to keep away the national guard and escort the African American students inside. *In 1998 each of those nine students received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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The berlin Wall is built
*The Berlin Wall separated Germany's capital.
*The wall had barbed wire, two concrete walls, fencing, guards, 300 watchtowers, 20 bunkers, and 250 guard dog runs.
*The space in between the two walls was called the death strip.
*Many people were trapped on one side of the wall from work and would be immediately shot if they tried to escape to the other side to go to their families.
*5000 people escaped
*In 1963 thousands of Berliners tore down the wall by hand. Today it is nearly destroyed. -
John F. Kennedy is assasinated
*JFK was shot in Texas in a parade, riding in an open-topped car by Lee Harvey Oswald.
*After Kennedy died Johnson became president. NOW READ LADY BIRD JOHNSON'S DIARY ENTRY ON THE DAY OF THE ASSASINATION -
1st man on the moon
*Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin, were all aboard the Saturn five rocket.
*Instead of insurance Armstrong and his crew signed hundreds of different things to give to their families to sell incase they died on that mission.
*Armstrong and Aldrin left a plaque, the American flag, and a small piece of the Apollo 1 in which 3 astronauts died.
*Aldrin took some bread and wine onto the rocket and he took communion on the moon. -
The Pet Rock fad starts
*In 1975 Gary Dahl had the idea of making and selling pet rocks.
*Each pet rock sold for $3.95 and came with a cardboard pet carrier with air holes, wood shavings, and a training manual.
*This silly product was probably bought for the manual, which had many puns and jokes about training a rock.
*Each rock cost 1 cent apiece for Gary and shipped from Mexico's Rosarito beach, shipping out about 1000 per day!
*You should read the manual which you can find if you Google search:Scribd pet rocks
