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Senator Joseph McCarthy gains power; "the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques''
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Korean War begins. Reason for the divison of Korea
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Sets a term limit on the president
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Provided American allies with aid
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restricted immigration into the U.S
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Republican Dwight Eisenhower was the landslide winner
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McCarthy was let go
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U.S. increases aid to South Vietnam.
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McDonalds opens up
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mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe (including the USSR)
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political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system
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U.S,A fighting to contain communism
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primarily a voting rights bill, becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction
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stablishing federal inspection of local voter registration polls and penalties for those attempting to obstruct someone's attempt to register to vote or actually vote
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John F Kennedy becomes president
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grants electors to the District of Columbia
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he US placed an embargo on exports to Cuba
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Dies of an overdoese at 36
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closest nuclear confrontation (as of 2010) involving the U.S. and USSR
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President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas
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prohibiting both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax
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whose social reforms were aimed at the elimination of poverty and racial injustice