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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., urged his followers to adhere to the philosophy of

Nonviolence

The Montgomery bus boycott began in 1955 when

Rosa Parks refused to surrender a seat to a white person

A series of Earth-orbiting spacecrafts launched by the Soviet Union,which inaugurated the space age.

Sputnik

Little Rock Nine"

The Little Rock Nine was a group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, and then attended after the intervention of President Eisenhower, is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. On their first day of school, troops from the Arkansas National Guard would not let them enter the school and they were followed by mobs making threats to lynch.

Peace Corps

The Peace Corps is an American volunteer program run by the United States Government, as well as a government agency of the same name. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes: (1) providing technical assistance; (2)helping people outside the United States to understand US culture; and (3) helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. The work is generally related to social and economic development. The program was established by Executive Order 10924, issued by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961, announced on March 2, 1961, and authorized by Congress on September 22, 1961, with passage of the Peace Corps Act (Public Law 87-293). The act declares the program's purpose as follows: "To promote world peace and friendship through a Peace Corps, which shall make available to interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified for service abroad and willing to serve, under conditions of hardship if necessary, to help the peoples of such countries and areas in meeting their needs for trained manpower."

George Bush paid a heavy political price when in 1991 he agreed to

a combination of spending cuts and the largest tax increase in history

The so-called Pentagon Papers were

a set of documents on the conduct of the Vietnam War that the Pentagon deliberately leaked to the media in order to blame military failures on the White House.

In 1963, a book by Betty Friedan

argued that suburban housewives were victimized by a cult of domesticity

In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court ruled against segregated schools on the grounds that they

denied black children equal protection of the laws

The development which first focused the attention of the United States on the danger of communism in Vietnam was

the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954

the November rule destruction of the Berlin wall was

the end of Communist rule in central Europe" and was the end of the Cold War.

The Civil Right Act 1964

which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.

Malcolm X

took a more internationalist and less anti-white approach to the black liberation struggle after making a pilgrimage to Mecca and touring Africa in 1964 moderated his anti-white views after a power struggle with Elijah Muhammad, the founder of the Nation of Islam.

After World War II, the U.S. government opposed Vietnam's war for independence from France because it

was led by the Communist Ho Chi Minh