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The formation of NATO in 1949 helped unify many European nations in a strong military alliance with the United States and Canada.
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in 1954 the U.S Supreme Court ruled in brown v board of education.that the segregation of public schools had to end.
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In 1957 six European nations founded the European Economic Community, also known as The Common Market.
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In the 1960's the counterculture a rebellion of teenagers and young adults against mainstream american society.
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This movement featured a growing nationalism among french-speaking residents of Quebec as well as a seperation of Quebec from Canada.
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In 1964 the U.S congress passed the Civil Rights Act , and the following year the Voting Rights Act.
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In 1980 Polish electrician Lech Walesa led hundreds of thousands of workers in an anti-government protest movement known as solidarity.
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In Czechoslovakia the Velvet Revolution so called it because it was peaceful, pushed the communists out of power.
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The 1989 fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of soviet-backed regimes in eastern europe showed the dramatic crumbling of soviet power.
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Twelve of the republics eventually united in a loose conferderation known as the common wealth of the independent states
