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Promoted the "Atoms for Peace" at the United Nations General Assembly during the Cold War.
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overwhelmed the French and ended French colonial rule in asia.
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Asserted that a Middle Eastern country could request American economic assistance and or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from military state controlled by international communism.
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The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite.
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Published by Harvard economist and public intellectual John Galbraith The Affluent Society examined America's new post WWII consumer economy and political culture.
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President John F. Kennedy also referred to JFK was the youngest and only U.S. President to receive the Purple Heart. Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
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Perhaps the biggest failure of the United States in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. The United States government planned an invasion that ended with decreased trust in the U.S. government and killed all Cuban American relations.
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Built to keep East Berliners from escaping
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The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a dangerous confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, when then U.S. Intelligence discovered evidence of general soviet arms build up in Cuba.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson also referred to as LBJ took office after the assassination of JFK and championed programs such as Medicare, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act.
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An act that abolished voting discrimination in Federal, State, and local elections.
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Considered to be among the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in American history. The comprehensive act barred segregation in public accommodations and outlawed discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, national or religious origin.
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Department of Housing and Urban Development. Provided aid to cities to rebuild blighted area.
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The National Highway Safety Program addressed public concern over rising number of traffic fatalities.
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Remembered as the only President ever to resign from office after his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
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The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) between the U.S. and the USSR, froze the total number of inter-continental Ballistic missiles but allowed the replacement of old missiles with new ones.
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Ford became the first UN-Elected President in the nation's history after the resignation of President Nixon from the Watergate Scandal.
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