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Kennan's Long Telegram lays out Containment Policy
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Truman Desegregates military
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USSR gets atomic bomb, Chinese Communists Win; NATO formed
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The Korean War Begins
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I Love Lucy Airs; First Color TV
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US Tests H-Bomb
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Korean War Armistice
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Brown Vs Board of Education ends school segregation
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Rosa Parks arrested; Emmett Till murdered
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Bus Boycott successful; Interstate Highways Built; Elvis becomes popular
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Soviets First in Space with Sputnik 1
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NASA formed
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JFK Elected; Greensboro sit-ins; SNCC founded
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Failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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March on Washington "I Have a Dream Speech"; JFK Assassinated
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The Civil Rights Bill Passed; LBJ Elected
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Malcom X Assassinated; Selma Marches; The Voting Rights Bill Passed
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Black Panther Party formed; NOW founded
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Summer of Love, San Francisco
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Nixon Elected; Tet Offensive in Vietnam; MLK Jr. Assassinated
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Woodstock Concert; Stonewall Riots; Man on the Moon
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Kent State Shootings
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Nixon Re-elected; Nixon visits China; Watergate scandal begins; Title IX prohibits sex discrimination in schools
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Roe vs. Wade legalizes abortion; US withdraws from Vietnam; Arab Oil Embargo cause gas prices to soar in US
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Nixon faced with Impeachment, Resigns, Ford becomes president and pardons Nixon
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Vietnam War Ends
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Carter Elected
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Harvey Milk Assassinated
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Iran Hostage Crisis
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Reagan Elected; Beginning of HIV epidemic in US
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Reagan Re-Elected
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Scandal of Iran Contra Affair breaks
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Bush Sr. Elected
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End of the Cold War, Fall of Soviet Union