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John F. Kennedy established the peace corps.
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The U.S. backed Cuban exile Bay of Pigs invasion was crushed by the Cubans.
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Astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the earth.
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President Kennedy forces U.S. Steel to roll back high prices.
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The Cuban missile crisis takes the world to the brink of nuclear war.
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The United States, Great Britain, and the USSR signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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JFK was assissinated and Lydon B. Johnson was sworn in as president.
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President Johnson declares war on poverty.
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The North Vietnamese fired at U.S. ships.
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Congress overwhelimingly passes the Gulf of Tonk Resolution.
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Johnson wins this election by a landslide.
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Congress enacts Medicare and Medicaid.
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LBJ committed fifty thousand American troops to combat in Vietnam.
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The National Organization for Women was formed.
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Israel wins the Six Day War in the Middle East.
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Riots in Detroit kill forty-three, injure two thousand and leave five thousand homeless.
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The Vietcong launched the Tet Offensive.
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Johnson announces he will not seek re-election.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis.
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Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles.
