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harry truman
made one of the biggest upsets -
Joseph McCarthy
senator who conducts investigations looking for communists in the american government -
Red china
Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the people republic of china -
Panmunjom
The Korean War the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea. -
Rosenberg
accused of heading a spy ring that passed top-secret information concerning the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union -
England's got a new queen
Queen Elizabeth II was the new queen -
Campanella
the Brooklyn Dodgers -
Rock Around the Clock
The first rock and roll song heard by millions of people worldwide -
dien bien phu falls
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a climactic of the First Indochina War -
disneyland
the opening of Disneyland -
Alabama
the civil rights protest movement -
Trouble in the Suez
The invasion of Egypt -
little rock
African American students enrolling into a Central High School which was a all white school. -
sputnik
the space race -
California baseball
The Dodgers left new York to go to LA to make more money and build a bigger fan base -
hula hoops
A hip swiveling toy that became big all over and cross america -
space monkey
they sent a monkey into space and it was the first animal the ever went to space n came back alive -
u2
a war spy plane that was shoot down -
Bay of Pigs invasion
the invasion on southwestern cuba -
malcolm x
civil rights leader spokesperson for the Nation of Islam before but he went back and study and found out everything they told him was a lie -
ole miss
an African american veteran who wanted to go to all white school -
birth control
it was only used for married couples -
Woodstock
3 days of peace and music -
ayatollah in iran
He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader -
Sally Ride
became the first American woman in space -
crack
a hard core drug sold by drug deals that started it in new York -
China's under martial law
Liberation Army protests