Most Important Events By Year (1951-1975)

Name the most important event for each year in the mid 1900's!

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Year	Country/Region	Answer
1951	United States	Harry Truman given power in Korean War
1952	United Kingdom	Queen Elizabeth II given power
1953	Korean Peninsula	Korean War armistice
1954	United States	Brown v Board of Education
1955	United States	Arrest of Rosa Parks
1956	Egypt	Suez Canal Crisis
1957	Russia*	Launch of Sputnik Satellite
1958	United States	Founding of NASA
1959	Cuba	Cuban Revolution
1960	United States	First approved contraceptive
1961	Germany	Construction of the Berlin Wall
1962	Cuba	Cuban Missile Crisis
1963	United States	John F. Kennedy Assassinated
1964	United States	Civil Rights Act of 1964
1965	Vietnam	United States deploys ground troops in Vietnam
1966	China	China's Great Leap Forward ends
1967	Bolivia	Che Guevara captured and killed
1968	United States	Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated
1969	United States*	Apollo 11 moon landing
1970	Cambodia	U.S. bombing of Cambodia
1971	United States	Nixon Economic Shocks
1972	United States	Watergate Scandal
1973	Middle East	OPEC Oil Embargo
1974	United States	Richard Nixon Resigns
1975	Vietnam	Fall of Saigon

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