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Period: to
1960s-70s
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John F. Kennedy elected president
John F. Keninedy was elected president -
U.S. involvement in Vietnam War begins
In late January, 1968, during the lunar new year (or “Tet”) holiday, North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam. -
Bay of Pigs invasion
When a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. It was not succsesful -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Oct. 14-28th leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. -
John F. Kennedy Assassinated
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in his car. -
The Beatles perform in U.S. for the first time
Their American debut on the Ed Sullivan show 1964 -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed
In early August 1964, two U.S. destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin in Vietnam radioed that they had been fired upon by North Vietnamese forces. -
Tet Offensive
On January 31, 1968, some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. -
Election of 1968
Won by Richard M. Nixon angainst Hubert H. Humphrey, and George C. Wallace.