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Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th president of the United -
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The Soviet Union announces the death of Josef Stalin
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All price controls officially ended by the Office of Price Stabilization
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The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare is created by a joint congressional action
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Eisenhower delivers his "Chance for Peace" speech, also known as the "Cross of Iron" of Newspaper Editors, speaking against the increase of military spending
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The Army-McCarthy hearings begin to resolve the conflict between the U.S. Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy concerning McCarthy’s pressuring of the Army to make certain appointments and McCarthy’s aggressive anticommunism; these continue for two months.
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Eisenhower signs the Submerged Lands, Act allowing states to submerge navigable land waterways such as rivers.
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Eisenhower addresses the American public and announces an armistice in Korea.
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Eisenhower proposes broadening the provisions of the Social Security Act to cover Americans
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Eisenhower signs the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, admitting 214,00 more immigrants that permitting under existence immigration quotas.
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Iranians, with the backing of the CA, overthrow the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, ensuring Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi's hold on Power.
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Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin resigns, in large part to protest the failure of the Eisenhower administration to propose amendments to the Taft-Harley Act.
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Eisenhower appoints Earl Warren Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Eisenhower announces that the Soviet Union has tested a hydrogen bomb.
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Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, addressing the international awareness of and potential peaceful uses for atomic energy.
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Eisenhower sends a special message to congress asking for changes in the Taft-Hartley labor laws
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The United States and Japan sign a mutual defense agreement that provides for the gradual and partial rearmament of Japan
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France Surrenders its garrison at Dien Bien Phu to the Vietminh.
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Brown v. Topeka Board of Education The Supreme Court announces a decision in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, ruling that racial segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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The United States and seven other nations sign the SEATO(South East Asian organization) pact aimed at preventing communism in South East Asia.
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The first “White Citizens Council” is organized in Indianola, Mississippi to oppose the integration of schools and other public spaces and to promote white supremacy.
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Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks, at 42, is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in compliance with segregation laws. Her actions and subsequent arrest spark a bus boycott in Montgomery which lasts for more than a year.
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Eisenhower signs the Social Security Act 1956, permitting women to retire at age sixty-two and disabled workers at age fifty.
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After a successful year of bus boycotts against segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, a three-judge district court rules in Browder v. Gayle that bus segregation in Montgomery is unconstitutional.
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Eisenhower defeats Stevenson by nine million votes to win a second term. Congress remains in the hands of the Democratic Party.
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Eisenhower finally meets with civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Lester Granger, who have been critical of Eisenhower’s slow pace of progress and lack of strong support for Civil Rights legislation.
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Hawaii becomes the 50th US state
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