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- Brooklyn Dodgers
- 1st baseball team to sing on a black player- jackie robinson
- jack kerouac
- was the author of the best-selling book On the Road, which epitomized the Beat Generation of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
- James Dean
- was a two-time Oscar-nominated American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause
- Dein Bein Phu
- french union forces vs. vietnamese viet minh communist ;culminated in a massive French defeat that effectively ended the war.
- Nikita Kruschev
- emerged as a leader in the Soviet Union after the death of dictator Josef Stalin. In 1956, he advocated reform and indirectly criticized Stalin and his methods. He became the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1974.
- Women's Liberation Movement
- is a series of campaigns on issues such as reproductive rights (including abortion), domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, sexual harassment, and sexual violence
- Mussolini
- was an Italian who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism.
- mickey mantel
- was a great baseball player for the New York Yankee team. He batted both left- and right-handed, hit at a leading batting average, as well as led the league in home runs.
- Davy Crockettt
- The 1955 song "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" was introduced in the television series; died at the alamo
- Suez Canal
- After Britain and the USA withdrew their financial support for the Egyptian Aswan dam project, General Nasser nationalized the important Suez Canal. Egypt was then invaded by British, French and Israeli forces. Under pressure from the United States the invaders left Egypt and a UN emergency force was sent to Egypt.
- Disneyland
- Disneyland opened in 1955 in Anaheim, California. It was a theme park, developed by Walt Disney and based around his cartoon characters. It was designated as a place for family entertainment.
- Joseph Stalin
- dictator of the Soviet Union; allied himself with castro-- cuban missile crisis; communist sphere of influence
- Little Rock
- Governor Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, because he believed black and whites should be segregated, despite Federal laws on integration. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division to keep them safe
- Francisco Franco
- communist spanish leader; His rule was known for a focus on Spanish nationalism, traditional values and a disregard of human rights.
- Civil rights Movement
- (1955-1968) refers to the reform movements in the United States aimed at abolishing racial discrimination against African Americans and restoring suffrage in Southern states
- Albert Einstein
- received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics; was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass-energy equivalence, E = mc2
- Sit-ins
- In 1960 a group of Black students decided to go and
- Peter Pan
- was a top Broadway play starring Mary Martin, who flew through the air as Peter Pan. 1955
- Rock Around the Clock
- is a 12-bar-blues-based song from 1952, written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers; considered by many to be the song that put rock and roll on the map in America and around the world
- Chou-en-Lai
- was the Premier and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China; Zhou was largely responsible for the re-establishment of contacts with the West during the Nixon presidency.