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JKF
Establuishes Peace Corps. -
Bay of Pigs
US backed Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Cubans. -
Kennedy
Forces US Steel to roll back price. -
John H. Glenn Jr
Astronaut became first american to orbit the earth. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
takes world to brink of nuclear war. -
US
The US, great britain, and the USSR sign Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. -
JFK
Assasinated. Lyndon B Johnson is sworn in as president. -
Johnson
Declares war on poverty -
Gulf Of Tonkin
Congress overwhelmingly passes GOT Resolution. -
Presidential election
Johnson wins in a landslide. -
LBJ
Commits fifty thousand American troops to combat in Vietnam. -
Congress
Enacts Medicare and Medicaid. -
NOW
National Organization for Women formed. -
Six Day War
Isreal wins six day war in the middle east. -
Riots in Detroit
Riots kill 43, injur 2,000, and leave 5,000 homeless. -
Vietcong
Launch offensive. -
Election..
Johnson announces he will not run for re-election. -
MLK
assasinated in memphis. -
Robert Kennedy
Assasinated in Las Angeles.
