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Harry truman
Truman oversaw the Berlin Airlift and Marshall Plan in 1948 -
Red China
Communist controlled China. -
Joe McCarthy
known for alleging that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government -
Rosenbergs
Executed after being found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage. -
Campanella
American baseball player, a professional National League catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers, whose career was cut short as a result of an automobile accident -
England's got a new queen
Elizabeth was crowned Queen Elizabeth II -
Panmunjom
It was the location of the truce conference -
Rock Around the Clock
Bill Haley and His Comets recorded “(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock.” -
Dien Bien Phu falls
The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War. It was fought between the French Union's French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist revolutionaries -
Disneyland
Walt Disney’s metropolis of nostalgia, fantasy and futurism, opens on July 17, 1955. -
Alabama
The Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama was a crucial event in the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement -
Trouble In The Suez
The Suez Crisis, or the Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. -
California baseball
The 1957 California Golden Bears baseball team represented the University of California in the 1957 NCAA University Division baseball season. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit from Baikonur , Kazakhstan, on October 4, 1957, making it the first successful artificial satellite and marking the start of the Space Race. -
U2
Dwight D. Eisenhower requested permission from the prime minister of Pakistan, Feroze Khan Noon, for the United States to establish a secret intelligence facility in Western Bloc-allied Pakistan, where the Lockheed U-2 spy plane would be stationed and launched from. -
Little Rock
Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine On May 25, 1958, Ernest Green, the only senior among the Little Rock Nine, became the first African American graduate of Central High School. -
space monkey
He was launched on December 4, 1959, housed in a cylindrical capsule within the Mercury spacecraft atop a Little Joe rocket in order to test the launch -
Birth control
Birth control has advanced women’s economic opportunities and empowerment. Access to birth control has been the top economic driver for women in the last 85 years. Research indicates that one-third of the wage gains that women have made since the 1960s is the direct result of access to the birth control pill. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. -
Ole Miss
13 Ole Miss 1961-63 Final two SEC games of 1961 through fifth SEC game of 1963 Listing includes regular season games only NOTE: Georgia Tech was a member of the Southeastern Conference from 1933-63. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X's formal break with the Nation of Islam came in a series of events that followed the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy -
Hula hoops
The Hula Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958 -
Woodstock
Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock -
Ayatollah's in Iran
the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. -
Crack
The "crack epidemic" in the United States was a surge of crack cocaine use in major cities across the United States between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. -
Sally Ride
Ride became the first American woman in space as a crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger for STS-7. -
China's under martial law
China's Under Martial Law Martial law is the system of rules that takes effect when the military takes control of the normal administration of justice