U.S. History by Year, 1940-1959

Based on the clues, guess these American related things that happened in each year.

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Year	Hint	Answer
1959	This territory is admitted as the 50th and latest state to the union	Hawaii
1958	The U.S. establishes this agency in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik	NASA
1957	This "King of Rock" releases the song Jailhouse Rock	Elvis Presley
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower establishes this highway system	Interstate
1955	This woman is arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person	Rosa Parks
1954	This senator is condemned for his role in persecuting suspected communists	Joseph McCarthy
1953	Hugh Hefner begins publishing this adult magazine	Playboy
1952	This city becomes a popular destination for tourists to watch live atomic bomb tests	Las Vegas
1951	This sitcom starring Lucille Ball debuts on CBS	I Love Lucy
1950	The U.S. along with UN forces go to war in this peninsula against communist forces	Korea
1949	The United States joins this defense organization with 30 other countries	NATO
1948	The U.S. airlifts supplies to this city after the Soviet Union places a land blockade	Berlin
1947	A supposed UFO, reportedly a balloon, crashes near this New Mexico city	Roswell
1946	A riot breaks out in this San Francisco prison as a result of an escape attempt	Alcatraz
1945	This secret project succeeds in creating and detonating the first atomic bomb	Manhattan Project
1944	2,501 Americans die on D-Day while invading this German controlled region of France	Normandy
1943	FDR meets with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin in this Middle Eastern city	Tehran
1942	This general promises to return to the Philippines after its Japanese capture	Douglas MacArthur
1941	The U.S. enters WWII after Japan attacks this naval base	Pearl Harbor
1940	This burger chain opens its first location in San Bernardino, California	McDonald's

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