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Germany agreed to pay reparations under the Dawes Plan and the Young Plan but those plans were cancelled in 1932. The treaty negotiated between Janurary and June in Paris and written by the allies.
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Levittown was the first truly mass- roduced suburb and is widely known as the archetype for postwar suburbs throughout the country. Also Leviitown had became a symbol of the american dream and also a symbol of racial segregation.
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University students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of 25,000 of un german books. Right wing students marcned in parades against the un german spirit.
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Cbs began experimental color field tests using film and live cameras which made its first field test of color television. The war production board halted the manufacture of television and radio equipment for civilian use limiting any chances to introduce color television to the general public.
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The Cold War was a period of economic, political and military tension between United Staes and the Soviet Union. The first H bomb test in the Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall Islands created a 25-square-mile fireball that vaporized an island and blew a huge hole in the ocean floor.
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The blacklist is the practice of denying employment to screenwriters, actors, directors, musicans and otherss. The first blacklist was instituted on november the day after ten writers and directors were cited for contempt for congress.
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Alger Hiss was accused of being a soviet spy and convicted of perjury in connection with his charge. Hiss was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment
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The oath proposed was in addition to the oath to support the constitution of the u.s. The oath was an effort to forestall action on the part of california committee to place a constitutional amendment on the state ballot.
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The Korean War began when North Korean tanks and infantry crossed the thirty eight parallel. It was a war against the forces of the international communism itself.
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The Brown vs. Board of education is known as the supreme court decision that declared segregated schools to be inherently unequal. It was appoved that the school segregation violated the equal protection and due process clauses of the 14 amendment.
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Joseph Mccarthy begins hearings investigating the U.S army which he charges with being soft on communism. The rise to fame as the most famous and feared communist hunter.
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The comics magazine association of america was formed in response to a widespread public concern over gory and horrific comic book contents. This code banned graphic pictures of violence and gore in crime and horror comics.
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Two mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentlly dropped over Goldsboro North Carolina. The bombs fell to earth after a b-52 bomber broke up in the mid air, and one of the devices was a nuclear weapon that was designed to act in warfare.
