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End of WWII
the day that japan unconditionally surrender -
Brown V. Board Of Education
desegrated all schools in the United States -
rosa parks
refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger -
Period: to
bus boycott
intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system -
little rock nine
group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957 -
sputnik launched
the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite -
u-2 incident
when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace -
bay of pigs
when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace -
Period: to
cuban missle crisis
when the world was about to go into a nuclear war and the cuban government was about to launch their nuclear wepons on the United States -
March on Washington
when Martin L. King delivered a his most famous speech I Have A Dream
