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Elvis Presley dance Invented
Forrest Gump's mother had a bed and breakfast functioning in her home. Elvis Presley was one of her guest and Forest helped him invent his signature dance. -
Desegrated Universities
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963. -
John F. Kennedy assassinated
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Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the longest war in which the United States took part. The Vietnam War began in 1957 and ended in 1975. Vietnam was separated into North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was communist, and they wanted to end U.S. support of South Vietnam.
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Ping pong diplomacy
he U.S. got an invitation to play China at China and these were the first Americans to set foot in China since 1949. -
Ending of the Vietnam War
The united states lost this war and had many fatalities
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Jimmy Carter Iran hostage crisis
52 Americans were held hostage for 444 days, after a group of Islamist students and militants supporting the Iranian Revolution took over the American Embassy in Tehran. -
John Lenon gets shot
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Assassination attempt of Ronald Reagan
It happened 69 days into the presidency of Ronald Reagan. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6CNRlQG0mg](timetoast.com) -
HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS epidemic started between heroin users, homosexual men and hemophiliac
It spread from chimpanzee to human
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Cold war
Reagan's anti-communist position had developed into a stance known as the new Reagan Doctrine which, in addition to containment, formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments. -
Technology advances
The World Wide Web or internet is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet
