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Cold War Begins
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Winston Churchill gives “Iron Curtain” speech
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Marshall Plan enacted, providing American aid in rebuilding western and southern Europe
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China becomes communist
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Korean War Begins
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Supreme Court declares segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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East Germans raise Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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Martin Luther King takes civil rights movement to the North
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Assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis, Tennessee
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Brutal beatings of protestors at Democratic National Convention in Chicago
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Richard Nixon wins presidency behind power of white backlash
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Americans land on moon
