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Period: to
50's-90's
cold war -
Korean War
-Fighting began when north Vietnamese soliders came across the 38th parallel
-5 million soliders and civilians were killed
-Government officials saw it as a war against communism
-The Chinese stepped in to help North Korea
-The war was backed by the idea of containment which was to contain communism -
Elvis Presley sings "Hound Dog"
- Listed as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" -Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in February 2013 -"Hound Dog" has been recorded more than 250 times -Sold about 10 million copies globally
- It was simultaneously No. 1 on the US pop, country, and R&B charts in 1956
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Vietnam War
-Between north Vietnam and south Vietnam
-Napalm was used heavily for the first time
-More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict
-The UH-1 Huey was a big part in the war
-Ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later -
Little Rock Nine
-9 black highschool students
-Registered by the NAACP
-Presedent Dwight Eisenhower accompanied them
-National guard was called in
-White mob gathered in front of school -
Fidel Castro excommunicated by pope John XXIII
-On the basis of a 1949 decree by Pope Pius XII forbidding Catholics from supporting communist governments
-Alleged the reasons were not related to supporting Castro’s support of communism, but to having committed or collaborated in acts of violence against the Catholic hierarchy
-Months prior to the excommunication, Bishop Eduardo Roza Masvidal and 135 priests had been expelled from Cuba
- Castro never received an ad personam excommunication -
University of Alabama is desegragated
-George Wallace said, “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!” When African American students attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama
-Flanked by state troopers Wallace literally blocked the door of the enrollment office
-President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation -
JFK Assassinated
-The 35th president
-Shot by Lee Harvey Oswald
-While in an open top convertable
-Shot 3 times
-Riding next to Jacqualin Kennedy when shot
-Governer Conally was shot as well -
Moon Landing
-Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface
-Armstrong spent about two and a half hours outside the spacecraft
- They collected 47.5 pounds of lunar material for return to Earth
- Apollo 11 was the fifth manned mission of NASA's Apollo program
- They stayed a total of about 21 1⁄2 hours on the lunar surface -
Nixon resigns
-First US president to resign form office
-He was caught up in the big Watergate scandal
-He would have been impeached had he not resigned
-The vice president Gerald Ford succeded him
-Ford gave him a presidential pardon so he would not go to jail -
HIV/AIDs
-Reports of AIDs in the US began in 1981
-The disease is more prominant in minorities
-It was killing many citizens
