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Dr.Kings "I have a dream" speech
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Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc Historians do not fully agree on the dates -
Berlin Blockade
Soviet Union blocked western allies from getting in by blocking roads and railroads. -
NATO formed
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is established by 12 Western nations -
China goes red
Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People's Republic of China -
Korean War begins
1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People's Army poured across the 38th parallel -
United State test first Hydrogen bomb
The United States detonates the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union -
Dwight Eisenhower is elected
Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson -
Nikita Khrushchev replaced Joseph Stalin
the USSR launched a counter-attack on Nazi Germany. Stalin died in March 1953, his death triggered a power struggle in which Nikita Khrushchev after several years emerged victorious against Georgy Malenkov -
Sputnik Launched
Soviet launch first satellite into space and circles the earth. -
President Kennedy is elected
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The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election -
Russians send the first man into space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban exiles launched a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba -
Cuban Missile Crisis
the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores -
John F Kennnedy is assassinated
This happened on November 22, 1963, Dallas, TX -
The Beatles arrive in the United States
First U.S. Concerts, estimated four thousand Beatles' fans were present -
China explodes atomic bomb
Zedong called on Chinese scientists to rely on their own efforts and develop China's atomic bomb within eight years -
First NFL Football Super Bowl
known retroactively as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporaneous reports, including the game's radio broadcast -
Thurgood Marshall nominated to the Supreme Court
after a heated debate, the Senate confirmed Marshall's nomination by a vote of 69 to 11 -
American astronauts land on the moon
, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. They landed on the moon in the Lunar Module -
Tet Offensive
Tet offensive, a series of simultaneous attacks that began -
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis -
Robert Kennedy is assassinated
Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary -
Protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets -
Woodstock concert
the Woodstock Festival was a music festival in the United States -
Water burglaries
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There were 5 burglars arrested on June 17, 1972 at the Watergate offices of the Democratic National Committee -
Paris Peace Accords end the Vietnam war
was a peace treaty signed on January 27, 1973 to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War -
President Nixon Resigns
he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office -
Iranian hostage crisis
American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days in Iran. -
Soviet Union invades Afghanistan
This event began a brutal, decade-long attempt by Moscow to subdue the Afghan civil war and maintain a friendly and socialist government on its border -
President Reagan is shot
President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. in Washington, D.C. -
Chernobyl disaster
wast in 1986 was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel -
Fall of the berlin wall
as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor
