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John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States, narrowly beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon.
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The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure.
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A record setting 73 million people tuned in that evening making it one of the seminal moments in television history.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis, The Missile Scare, or the Caribbean Crisis, was a 13-day confrontation in October 1962.
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He was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas.
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The United States Congress overwhelming approves the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited powers to oppose “communist aggression” in Southeast Asia.
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Nixon, Humphery, and Wallace ran for president but Nixon won the election.
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The Tet Offensive was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam against the forces
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Richard Milhous Nixon was the President of the United States from January 20, 1969 until he resigned on August 9, 1974, the first and only president to do so, as of 2015.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States.
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It was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972.
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On Jan. 23, 1973, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
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He announced his candidacy for president of the United States. He won his party's nomination on the first ballot at the 1976 Democratic National Convention
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As the war continued, the part of the Viet Cong in the fighting decreased as the role of the NVA grew.
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A former actor and California governor, served as the 40th U.S. president from 1981 to 1989. (Don't knoe the official date)
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Agreements between Israel and Egypt signed on September 17, 1978, that led in the following year to a peace treaty between those two countries, the first such treaty between Israel and any of its Arab neighbours.
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The crisis was described by the western media as an entanglement of "vengeance and mutual incomprehension.
