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Red China
reffering to communist-controlled China ), territories held during the Chinese Civil War. People's Republic of China. China during the Cultural Revolution. -
Harry Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president. -
Joe Mcarthy
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician and attorney who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin -
Englands got a new queen
Queen Elizabeth II is the sixth Queen to have been crowned in Westminster Abbey in her own right -
panmunjom
The Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula ... For the 1953 agreement -
campanella
Campanella quickly established himself as one of the best hitting catchers in baseball. ... He won his second MVP in 1953 while driving in a record (since broken) 142 runs as a catcher, then grabbed a third MVP award in 1955 while leading the Dodgers to their first World Series title. -
Rosenburg
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. The husband and wife were later sentenced to death and were executed in 1953. -
Dien Bien phu falls
the French-held garrison at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam fell after a four month siege led by Vietnamese nationalist Ho Chi Minh. ... After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, the French pulled out of the region. -
Rock around the clock
Rocket 88 or Good Rockin' Tonight or Arthur Crudup's That's All Right Mama to be the first rock'n'roll record, Rock Around the Clock was more important because it was the first rock'n'roll record heard by millions of people worldwide. -
Alabama
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. -
disneyland
Disneyland, Walt Disney's metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens on July 17, 1955. The $17 million theme park was built on 160 acres of former orange groves in Anaheim, California, and soon brought in staggering profits. -
Trouble in suez
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
little rock
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the USSR on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program -
california baseball
The 1958 Major League Baseball season was played from April 14 to October 15. It was the first season of play in California for the Los Angeles Dodgers (formerly of Brooklyn) and the San Francisco Giants (formerly of New York City). -
space monkey
The United States recorded a milestone in May 1959, finally recovering two primates alive after a spaceflight. A rhesus monkey named Able and a squirrel monkey named Baker reached an altitude of 300 miles (483 km) aboard a Jupiter rocket and were retrieved unharmed. -
hula hoops
On May 13, 1959, Arthur Melin applied for a patent for his version of the hula hoop. He received U.S. Patent Number 3,079,728 on March 5, 1963, for a Hoop Toy. Twenty million Wham-O hula hoops sold for $1.98 in the first six months. -
u2
The 1960 U-2 incident occurred on 1 May 1960, when an American U-2 spy plane was shot ... Diplomacy Shot Down: The U-2 Crisis and Eisenhower's Aborted Mission to Moscow, 1959–1960. -
bay of pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. -
ole miss
The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was an incident of mob violence by proponents of racial segregation beginning the night of September 30, 1962. Segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, an African-American veteran, at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi. -
malcom x
On October 11, 1963, Malcolm X gave a speech at the University of California, Berkeley, in which he outlined the philosophy of black nationalism as promoted by the Nation of Islam and declared racial separatism as the best approach to the problems facing black America. -
Birth control
Connecticut, went all the way up to the Supreme Court, which ruled in 1965 that birth control is legal for married women. The case set a precedent for other states and influenced numerous decisions since, including the ruling in Roe v. Wade, which protects women's private medical decisions — including abortion. -
woodstock
In 1969, the country was deep into the controversial Vietnam War, a conflict that many young people vehemently opposed. It was also the era of the civil rights movement, a period of great unrest and protest. Woodstock was an opportunity for people to escape into music and spread a message of unity and peace. -
Ayatollah's in Iran
Ruhollah Khomeini, known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader, philosopher, revolutionary and politician -
sally ride
Sally Kristen Ride was an American astronaut and physicist. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman in space. She was the third woman in space overall, after USSR cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya. -
crack
The initiation of crack cocaine into socially eroded communities took place during President Ronald Reagan's term in office, when there was a structural shift -
chinas under martial law
People's Liberation Army at the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. During the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) played a decisive role in enforcing martial law, suppressing the demonstrations by force and upholding the authority of the Chinese Communist Party.