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John F. Kennedy goes against Richard Nixon; Kennedy wins by a slim margin most likely because of his outstanding television presentation.
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Essentially, the United States sent in the FBI to try and take out the dictator of Cuba because the United States thought Cuba was going to turn communist.
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The SCLC wanted to challenge the bus desgregation by going on city busses. At one city, whites fire bombed the busses.
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The leader of Germany did not like East Berlin people going to the capitalist West Berlin, therefore the leader put up a wall so East Berlin could not cross over,
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During the Civil Rights Movement, MLK Jr. and his group SCLC and SNCC went to the city of Albany to stop segregation all around. In the end, nothing was changed in the city except many blacks going to jail.
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One black male wanted to go to an all white college, the college denied his application (although he had the standards to go there) because he was black. Kennedy got the male into the school, yet many riots broke out. Kennedy had to send in the national guard to protect the male all year.
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Cuba was working with the Soviets and the Soviets had missiles being built in Cuba to be launched to every major city in the United States. This event lasted about 13 days.
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SCLC and SNCC went to Birmingham city to boycott and try to stop segregation. When one protest went wrong because the fire department sprayed the protesters with a fire hose and the fire dogs attacked the students. This was on national television.
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Because Kennedy annoucned he was going to put in a law for the African American's to have equal rights, over 20,000 people showed up at the White House to show support.
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EIther by a conspiracy or a lone gun man, someone was involved with the shooting of John F. Kennedy, killing him instantly with a shot to the head.
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After Kennedy's assassination, Johnson (the vice president to Kennedy) was sworn into office on the plane taking Kennedy back to the White House.
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Now that the blacks got the law passed for equality, their next goal was to get restrictions on voting eliminated. This summer it did not work but later on it will.
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During the Freedom Summer, two white boys and one black boy were traveling to protest when suddenly they were kidnapped and killed in the middle of no where. This most likely got so much pubblicity because there were two white boys involved.
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Johnson, honoring Kennedy's request, put in the act of equality for all African American citizens.
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This incident involved a North Vietnam ship hitting one of the United States ships.
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This act by Congress allowed President Johnson to take any measures necessary to protect the United States.
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Students who had time on their hands at college wanted to speak out against war.
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The first Selma march that occured (by the SNCC) was a 54 mile walk but was stopped when the police beat the marchers and gassed them. With this being televised and the country being appauled the president sent out the national guard to protect the marchers from harm.
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Finally, Johnson passed the Voting Act of 1965 eliminating all restrictions on voting for the African Americans.
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The Latino Migrant workers wanted better pay for all the time they put in on the farms; therefore they boycotted grapes and lettuce to get what they wanted.
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These students were against the war and formed this group to try and change the major issues in society. There was no specific date but it grew rapidly in the mid 1960s.
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The Consumer Movement also passed the National Traffic Act and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 to ensure safety on the roads.
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Many people apart of the Consumer Movement believed the meats the United States ate was unsanitary; therefore this act was passed to ensure clean meat.
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The Environmental Movement passed this act to ensure no DDT was in the air and to keep our planet clean.
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This surprise attack was considered the turning point of the Vietnam War. The North Vietnam simultanously bombed every major city during the Tet holiday. This attack continued until March.
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United States troops went to the city of My Lai to get a body count. The way they got a body count was by raping innocent women and killing any men, women, children, or baby in site.
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President Johnson's mental ability was drained from the war; therefore he withdrew from the election.
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During the civil rights movement, the leader MLK Jr. was assassinated in a building. This loss faith and hope in the movement.
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Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey battle in the 1968 election. The outcome by a slim maragin was Nixon.
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During Kennedy's presidency, one of his goals were to have a man walk on the moon. This eventually happened with Neil Armstrong being the man.
