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| Fair Deal Policies (Truman, minimum wage increase, construction increases) |
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| Korean War begins (US enters for containment of communism) |
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| McCarthyism (fear of communism's wide spread) |
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| 22nd Amendment (president can only serve 2 terms or up to 10 years) |
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| Eisenhower elected (will end Korean war) |
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| Rosenbergs executed for treason against US (gave info to Soviet Union) |
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| Fall of Dien Bien Phu (French lose in Vietnam) |
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| Geneva Conference (reduce nukes, divide Vietnam along 17th parallel - elections in a year) |
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| Montgomery bus boycott begins (Rosa Parks) |
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| Warsaw Pact (USSR and Eastern European allies unite to counter NATO) |
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| Suez Crisis (Egyptian prez rationalizes canal) |
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| Interstate Highway Act (build federal roads, movement into rural areas, creation of suburbs) |
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| US puts Diem in power in South Vietnam |
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| Eisenhower Doctrine (extends Truman Doctrine to Middle Earth to help fight Mordor's armies and their communist ways) |
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| Domino Theory (if one country falls to Communism, it will undermine another that will fall) |
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| Civil Rights Act (creates permanent civil rights commission to supervise voting) |
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| Russians launch Sputnik satellite (space race begins) |
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| National Defense Education Act (fund math, science, and language programs) |
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| Cuban Revolution (Castro invades) |
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| U-2 incident (US spy plane goes down in USSR - Covert operation discovered) |
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| Civil Rights Act part deux (federal govt. registers black voters) |
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| Bay of Pigs invasion (attempt to overthrow Castro; fails) |
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| Alliance for Progress (build up Third World nations so the can manage their own affairs) |
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| Berlin wall built (stop citizens from crossing East/West boundary line) |
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| Peace Corps (encourage US citizens to help third world countries) |
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| Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - Arab majority, oil trade, join together to protest; oil prices go up, US fuel shortage |
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