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Timeline

1950​​-Joesph McCarthy states that over 200 Communists are working in the State Department.
Communist North Korea invades Democratic South Korea.

1951-RosenBurgs are convivted of Espionage

1952-Peace negotiations for North and South Korea persist through out the year

1953-Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President
Joesph Stalin dies

1954-Supreme Court rules on Brown vs Board overturning Plessy vs Ferguson

1955-​Polio vaccine is approved
December 1st Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus setting off the Montgomery  Bus Boycott

1956-Eisenhower is elected for a second term.
Nikita Khrushchev becomes leader of the Soviet Union

1957-Integration at Little Rock, Arkansas
Soviets launch Sputnik

1958-January 31st the US launches Explorer 1

1959-Fidel Castro becomes dictator in Cuba
Alaska and Hawaii become states

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