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Term | Definition |
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1947 | Truman Doctrine promises to aid countries threatened by communism |
1950 | Korean War Begins |
1954 | Supreme Court strikes down compulsory school segregation |
1961 | Alan Shepard becomes first American in space |
1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis leads to standoff with the Soviet Union |
1963 | President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas |
1964 | Civil Rights Act passed |
1965 | American troops sent to Vietnam |
1968 | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr assassinated in Memphis, TN |
1969 | Neil Armstrong first person on moon |
1974 | President Nixon resigns because of Watergate scandal |
1977 | Apple Computer Co produces first affordable personal computer |
1991 | Persian Gulf War fought |
1993 | Bush and Russian president Yeltsin sign treaty limiting nuclear arms |
2001 | World Trade Center in New York is destroyed |
2003 | War in Iraq begins |