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Harry Truman
Was elected the 33rd president of the United States. -
Red China
Communist controlled China. -
Rosenbergs
A couple convicted with espionage, feeding information to the Soviet Union about bombs. -
Panmunjom
The talks of peace in the the Korean War -
England's New Queen
Queen Elizabeth II -
Joe McCarthy
Senator who conducts investigations looking for communist that had infiltrated the United States. -
Campanella
The first black Major League Baseball pitcher -
Rock Around the Clock
The first rock song. -
Dien Bien Phu falls
Ho Chi Minh troops drove French troops out of Vietnam. -
Disneyland
First Walt Disney amusement park -
Alabama
Bus boycotts sparked by Rosa Parks -
Trouble in the Suez
The Second Arab–Israeli war, also called the Tripartite Aggression -
Little Rock
Troops have to walk the blacks to school to protect them. -
Sputnik
The first satellite launched by the Soviet Union. -
California Baseball
When the New York Giants baseball team switched their team state form New York to Los Angles and became the LA Dodgers -
Space Monkey
The U.S. sent monkeys to space and returned them back to make sure that it was okay for humans to go to space -
Hula Hoops
A plastic hoop made to go round and round the waist -
U2
U2 was a spy place to gather about the Soviet Union -
Birth Control
A pill to prevent a women form getting pregnant -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
A failed invasion sent by John F. Kennedy meant to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro out of power -
Ole Miss
A black football player wanted to go there but the school did want any blacks to go to school -
Malcolm X
An African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism -
Woodstock
The biggest music festival held in 1969 -
Ayatollah's in Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile -
Crack
Also known simply as crack or rock, is a free base form of cocaine that can be smoked -
Sally Ride
The first American woman in space -
China's under martial law
A protest that forced China to go to martial law