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The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern Bloc states of Central and Eastern Europe.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba.
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Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech before a crowd of 200,000 during the civil rights march on Washington, DC.
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President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Tex. He is succeeded in office by his vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson.
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The North Vietnamese torpedo boats allegedly attack U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam.
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The Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which authorizes President Johnson to take any means necessary to defend U.S. forces and prevent further aggression.
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This was Lyndon B. Johnson's second inauguration.
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Richard Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th president.
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Nixon resigns and is succeeded in office by his vice president, Gerald Ford.