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In the election on Nov. 8, 1960, Kennedy defeated the Republican Vice President Richard M. Nixon in a close race. At age 43, Kennedy was the youngest man to be elected President and the first Catholic.
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First part of the plan was to destroy Castro's tiny air force that way it'd be inpossible for his military to avoid the the invaders.
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During the Cuban Mussile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense 13 day political and military standoff in October of 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed soviet missiles on cuba just 90miles from U.S. shores.
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Lee Harvey Oswald is the one who killed our 35th president and wounded Texas Governor Connally. No investigation was ever able to be substantiate that a conspiracy existed or to prove that any other person was definitely involed.
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On Feb. 9, 1964, The Beatles with their Edwardian Suits and Mop Top haircuts, made their first American television appearence Live on the Ed Sullivan Show,
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The U.S. congress overwhelimg approves the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving Presdient Lyndon B. Johnson nearly unlimited power oppose "Communist aggression" in southeast asia. The resoluton marked the beginning of an expanded military role for the U.S. in teh Cold War battlefield of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
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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.
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Richard M. Nixon, repulican. Hubert H. Humphrey, Democratic. George C. Wallace, American Independent.
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January or '68, during the Lunar New Year or "Tet" holiday, north vietnamese and communists viet cong forces launched a coordinate attack against targets in south vietnam.
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They called it the "Week that changed the world".
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It was a major political scandal that occurred in the U.S. in the 70's as a result of the break in at the democratica national committee headquarters in washington.
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On this date, President Richard Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War, In televison speech, Nixon said the Accord would "end the war and bring peace with honor."
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President Richard M. Nixon resigns in the wake of the watergate burglary scandal. he was the first american president to ever resign.
