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Charles de Gaulle
led the free French forces forces in resisting capitulation to Germany in World War II -
Belgian's in the Congo
The Belgian Congo became a colony of the Belgian Kingdom,. -
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Joseph Stalin
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England got a new queen; Elizabeth II
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X was a civil rights movement leader and supporter of Black nationalism. -
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Truman Presidency
The years he was president. -
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Syngman rhee
A south Korean politician who served as the first president of South Korea from 1948 to 1960 -
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Eisenhower
Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of World War II -
the catcher in the rye
book that encourages individuals to toughen up and adapt to the rising. -
H-bomb
Ulam, and other American scientists developed the first hydrogen bomb, which was tested at Eniwetok atoll. -
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Children of Thalidomide
Some babies were still born or died very soon after birth, as many as 100,000 babies were affected by the drug in total. -
Bridge on the River
the two ends of the Burma-Thailand railway were joined at Konkoita in Thailand. Within 16 months the bridge was completed. -
Sputnik
Space program that sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc batteries became depleted. -
Elvis Presley goes into war
Elvis was stationed in Germany and served in battlelines in Korea. -
space monkey
a rocket blasted off carrying a monkey named Miss Able and another named Miss Baker. -
Birth control
Many states started to legalize drugs and devices including "the pill" which was approved by the Food and Drug Administration of 1960. -
Woodstock
Took place during the Vietnam War; many people wanted to spread the message of peace with the help of music. -
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Bay of pigs
A failed attempt by Cuban exiles to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. -
Moonshot
Kennedy gathered people at Rice University to speak of the Development of NASA in the space race against thee soviet union. -
Listen beats patterson
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Watergate scandal
A break-in happened in the DNC in the Watergate complex, and got caught planting listening devices and going through files. -
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Rock and roller cola wars
The cola wars are the long-time rivalry between soft drink producers. -
AIDS
Aids virus seemed to emerge and there was no cure and its origins were a mystery. -
Ayatollah in Iran
Khomeini arrived in Tehran in triumph on Feb. 1st, 1979, and was acclaimed as the leader of the Iranian Revolution. -
Russians invade Afghanistan
The soviets sought to prop up the country's communist government in the battle with Muslims. -
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Ronald Reagan Presidency
introduced heavily in the cold war with he policy of containment and rollback with regards to communist regimes. -
Highjack of flight 847
Flight 847 was highjacked by terrorists from a route flight of Athens to Rome.