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JFK establishes Peace Corps
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U.S backed Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Cubans
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United States, Great Britain, and the USSR sign the Limited Nuclear Test Ban treaty
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Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. becomes the first American to orbit the earth
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President Kennedy forces U.S Steel to roll back pice hike
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Cuban Missile Crisis takes world to brink of nuclear war
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President John F. Kennedy was assassinated
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Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president
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Lyndon B. Johnson declares war on poverty
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Congress overwhelmingly passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
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Johnson wins presidency in landslide
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LBJ commits fifty thousand American troops to combat in Vietnam
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Congress inacts Medicare and Medicaid
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National Organization for Women formed
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Israel wins Sid Day War in Middle East
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Riots in Detriot kill forty-three, injure two thousand, and leave five thousand homeless
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Vietcong launch the offensive
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Martin Luther King Jur. assassinated in Memphis
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Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles
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Johnson announces that he will not seek re-election
