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Kennedy was in a competition against Richard M. Nixon it was a very close election. Kennedy was age 43 which was the youngest president, he was also the first catholic.
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The bay of pigs invasion begins when a CIA- financed trained group of the cuban refugees lands in cuba and they also attemo to topple the communist government to Fidel Castro.
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FIfty years ago the United States and the soviet union stood closer to Armageddon than at any other moment in history.
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JFk was assinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, only to be fatally gunned down by Jack Ruby a couple days later.
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The beatles came to the U.S. to peform for there first time. They came from the U.K. which there they were already stars.
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IT was a joint resolution that the united states congress passed on August 10, 1964 because of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin n vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by the north virtnamese forces.
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ABout 70,000 north vetnaese and viet cong forces launched the tet offensice which was named the lunar new year holiday called tet.
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Richard Nixon, Hubert Hunphrey, Geroge LeMay all three of these men ran for the election in 1968. Richard nixon was the winner of the election.
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He arrived in china Febuary 21, 1972. They went there seeking to improve there relationship with them in the cold war.
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It was a major political scandal that occured in the United States in the 1970's as a result of the june 17, 1972.
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Nixon anounce the end of U.S. involvement which was on January 23, 1973.
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He said that he would resign the next day to begin.
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There were four people in the election. Jimmy carter became president in 1976.
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The camp was Accerded in 1978 it was big event.
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The event lasted from Novermber 4, 1979 - January 20, 1981.
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He lost the election in 1968 and in 1976, but he won the elction in 1980.