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henry truman
he was the 33rd president of the united states. -
joe mccarthy
he was a repulican us senator from the state of wisconsin -
ethel rosenbergs
were United States citizens convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war -
dwight D. eisenhower
he was first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes. -
joseph stalin
was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953 -
Roy Cohn
Roy Cohn resigns as Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel and enters private practice with the fall of McCarthy. He also worked to prosecute the Rosenbergs, mentioned earlier. -
Albert Einstein
was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Alabama is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ultimately led to the removal of the last race laws in the USA. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr figure prominently -
Little Rock,
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school -
Lebanon
a country in the East Mediterranean. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south. Lebanon's location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland has dictated its rich history and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity. -
buddy holly
dies in a plane crash on February 3 with Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, in a day that had a devastating impact on the country and youth culture. Joel prefaces the lyric with a Holly signature vocal hiccup "uh-huh, uh-huh."
