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Truman, Stalin, and British divide up Europe
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The first East European Communist government was set up in Albania
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The Truman Doctrine stated that the United States would contain the spread of communism at any cost and stop the Soviet Union.
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The day Poland went Red.
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Apartheid begins after the 1948 general election.
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Truman recognized the State of Israel.
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The Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under allied control, so America started dropping supplies to the areas that needed it.
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President Truman signs Executive Order 9981
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty.
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It took several months for the West Berlin economy to recover and the necessary stockpiles of food, medicine, and fuel to be replenished.
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The last plane–an American C-54–landed in Berlin and unloaded over two tons of coal.
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Communists win Chinese Civil War
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The Bantu Education Act is passed; created a separate education system for blacks and whites
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Dwight Eisenhower ordered the CIA to depose Mohammed Mossadegh, an ardent nationalist who opposed British and American influence in Iran, this tarnished America’s reputation among Iranians.
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Vietnamese forces occuppied the French command post at Dien Bien Phu and the French commander orders his troops to cease fire.
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Brown v. Board:
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. The Bus boycott began.
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Israel, Britain and France attacked Egypt when Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal.
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Allen Ginsberg published a poetry collection titled "Howl and Other Poems" , it delved into the norm of the conservative 50's with its apparent disorganization and graphic imagery.
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Bus boycott ended-The buses finally desegregated.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference is established.
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This case is a display of counterculture because Ginsberg's works were astoundingly different and challenged for being so.
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Separate homelands are created for the major black groups; government does this to stop the blacks from becoming citizens of South Africa
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An Africanist group who broke away from the African National Congress holds its first national meeting
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The party adopts the name Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa; its first Executive Committee is elected
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death oto the Pan African movement's leader Dr Peter Ntsele
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The PAC leads a peaceful anti pass march and local PAC leaders first gathered at Sharpeville police station. The police opened fire on demonstrators killing 69 and injuring 180 others. Known as the Sharpeville Massacre.
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The South African government declares a state of emergency and begins detaining people
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A band that started in Liverpool and ended in 1970.
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The Unlawful Organizations Act is introduced. Bans both the PAC and the ANC and any other organization that propagates their aims
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The Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills.
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The government lifts the State of Emergency decreed on 30 March in the wake of anti pass protests.
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American helicopters arrive at docks in South Vietnam along with 400 U.S. personnel, who will fly and maintain the aircraft.
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helicopters flown by U.S. Army sweep a NLF stronghold near Saigon, marks America's first combat missions against the Vietcong.
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Warhol titles his studio "The Factory" and it became the center for avant-garde activity.
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Andy Warhol got his big break at an exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles with 32 paintings of different flavors of Campbell's soup cans.
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This criticized the lack of individual freedom and the power of bureaucracy in government, universities, and corporations and called for participatory democracy.
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Warhol creates the famous Marilyn Monroe screen prints shortly after the actress's death.
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Betty Friedan published her highly influential book, The Feminine Mystique,which talks about the unsatisfactory lifestyle house wifes have. The book became a best-seller and stimulated the modern women's rights movement.
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March on Washington- about 200,000 people came to the Lincoln memorial and heard the “I have a dream” speech.
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24th amendment abolished poll taxes; allowing blacks the ability to vote.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Malcolm X shot to death
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Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote.
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Fulbright published The Arrogance of Power, in which he attacked the justification of the Vietnam War, Congress's failure to set limits on it, and the impulses which gave rise to it.
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The National Organization for Women founded by a group of feminists
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6 day war, israeli victory
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Created a song about San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair).
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Israel occupied the Gaza Strip, the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank and Syria’s Golan Heights; Israel threatened to go further.
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Executive Order 11375 expanded President Lyndon Johnson's affirmative action policy of 1965 to cover discrimination based on gender.
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California was the first state to adopt a "no fault" divorce law, which allows couples to divorce by mutual consent, every state adopted a similar law by 1985.
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Nasser died of a sudden heart attack, but his successor, Anwar al-Sadat, would go on to call himself "the first man of Islam".
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U.S. Court of Appeals rules that jobs held by men and women need to fall under the protection of the Equal Pay Act.