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1954 – 1955★★★★★

Operation Passage to Freedom

During the 300-day free-movement period after the Geneva Accords, roughly 800,000 to one million people, many of them Catholics, move from North to South Vietnam.

Politics· Vietnam, United States, France
November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975★★★★★

Vietnam War

A conflict between North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on one side and South Vietnam, backed by the United States and its allies, on the other; it ends with the fall of Saigon in 1975.

War· Vietnam, United States, Laos, Cambodia
December 1, 1955 – December 1956★★★★★

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott

Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger, sparking a year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Politics· United States
September 8, 1951★★★★★

Treaty of San Francisco

Japan signs a peace treaty with the Allied powers, ending the occupation when it takes effect in 1952.

Treaty· Japan, United States
June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953★★★★★

Korean War

North Korean forces cross the 38th parallel; the war, drawing in US-led UN forces and China, ends in an armistice in 1953.

War· South Korea, North Korea, China, United States