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MEDICARE
Medicare started -
WILLIAM LEVITT
He was born in this year -
RACHEL CARSON
She was born in this year -
PUERTO RICANS
They became U.S citizens -
TRUMAN ELECTION
Truman became president and didn't achieve very much -
WW 2
World War 2 ended -
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BABY BOOM
Increase of population during the 1900s -
TAFT HARLEY ACT
Congress passed the Taft Harley Act -
N.A.T.O
The U.S,Canada and ten nations of Western Europe set up N.A.T.O -
GI BILL OF RIGHTS
congress passed the GI Bill Of Rights -
Soviet Union
They exploded their first nuclear weapon -
FIDEL CASTRO
Fidel Castro seized power in cuba -
SPACE AGE
Eisenhower moved the nation into space age -
EXPLORER 1
The U.S launched the Explorer 1 -
CUBAN EXILES
Castro killed and captured 1500 cuban exiles -
BERLIN WALL
Nikita Khrushchev put up the Berlin Wall -
MARCH
A quarter million people marched the streets of washington -
JFK
JFK became president -
WAR
The president declared unconditional war on poverty -
CONGRESS
Congress allows the president to go to war -
VOTING
African Americans got the right to vote -
ASSASSINATION
Martin Luther King JR was assassinated -
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WOODSTOCK
Woodstock Festival sarted -
DESTROYED BERLIN WALL
The Berlin Wall got destroyed
