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Fidel Castro--- successful in ousting Batista (Cubans and US not happy)
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Bay of Pigs—tried to train ex-Cuban nationals; very unsuccessful (1961)
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Communists put of Berlin Wall
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Civil rights movement:
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13
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amendment: no more slavery in the US
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14
th
amendment:
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all persons in US are citizens of the US and their state
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no American citizen can be deprived of their civil rights without due process of
law
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1866
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15
th
amendment:
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1869
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color or race can not revoke voting rights
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Brown vs. board of education (1955)
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Reasons for segregation:
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Jim Crow Laws (in South)
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Plessey vs. Ferguson
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Reasons why segregation happened:
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Brown vs. board of education
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1955—Emmett Till death
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1955—Rosa Parks initiates the Montgomery Alabama bus boycott (Martin
Luther King)
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What was happening in the 1950s that made civil rights movement successful?
