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This was a Vietnam war between communist forces of North Vietnam (backed by China and the USSR) and the non-communist forces of South Vietnam (backed by the United States).
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Black students decide to attend an unsegregated school in Little Rock Arkansas. Their president sends troops to inforce intergration.
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Cuban refuggees land in Cuba and attempt to topple the communist government.
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Preople travel on bus to protest segregation.
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In Washington DC, Martin L. King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech before a crowd of 200,000 called the Civil Rights March.
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The popular Malcolm X; a black leader, islam religion was assassinated. He was killed by muslims in New York.
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Leader MLK was assassinated in Memphis Tenn.
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Richard Nixon, a republican running for president at that time.
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This was called the Landmark Supreme Court Decision, which legalizes aborrtion in first trimester.
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Soliders were sent back home and they expanded the G.I Bill which was passed to help out the soliders with good forms of education and government help.
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This was an island "power plant" in the U.S which had a nuclear meltdown. This released radioactive gases and iodine into the envirnment.
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This was an election between former governer Ronald Regan and Jimmy Carter
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The Berlin wall was a constructed by the German Democratic Republic. Cut off West Berlin and East Germany. Used to prevent emigration.
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Democratic party. Only served as president for two of the four years.
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A 5,000-pound bomb, hidden inside a Ryder truck, exploded just outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
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Bill Clinton was impeached because of two charges which were perjury and obstruction of juctice. He also was accused for the abuse of power.
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George Bush was a republican former govener of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush.
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Airplanes crashed into twin towers of World Trade Center; mentioned as the worst terriost attack on the U.S. a third hijacked plane flies into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashes in rural Pennsylvania. More than 3,000 people died in the attacks
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Following the Sep. 11 attacks, there were letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others.
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There was something called the Enron scandal in that October which led to the bankruptcy of the Enron Corperations.
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Hurricane Katrina caused damage on Mississippi and Louisiana; 80% of New Orleans was flooded.
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Barack Obama and John McCain go against each other as the run for president. Obama wins!
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A terriost who was responsable for the 9.11 attcks was killed by U.S forces after years of searching.
