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John F. Kennedy is elected president by beating Hubert Humphrey in the election of 1960.
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During this time the U.S helps the South Vietnamese prepare themsleves for the North as they were fighting against communist.
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It was a failed CIA type milityary invasion of Cuba, which was to stop and controll the Cuban Revolution.
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This was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba. This was the closes the Cold War came to having a nuclear war.
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Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, who used a sniper rifle to fatally shoot Kennedy during a presidential motorcade.
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The Beatles makes their debut on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in the U.S and is a huge success.
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It was a joint resolution that was passed by U.S congress to responsed to the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
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This was a suprise attack by the Viet Cong on South Vietnam and there allies, and it was largest military campaigns of the vietnam War.
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The people who ran was Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace, in the end Richard Nixon won the election. He promised to bring back law and order to the nation's cities in the U.S.A.
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This marked the first time a U.S president has visited China, and it also ended 25 years of separation between the two sides.
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This was a major political affair that happened in the United States, which was a break-in at the Democratic National Committee.
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This is the day that U.S was moved out of Vietnam. The Paris Peace Accords ended the U.S direct involvement in Vietnam.
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Having almost been impeached and having lost political support, he resigned from office because of these.
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Jimmy Carter is elected president after Nixton resigned, also he beat Gerald Ford during the election as well.
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Was a secret negotiations over the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, and was signed by Anwar El Sadat and Menachem Begin, and was witnessed by Jimmy Carter.
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This was a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Iran, in which 66 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days.
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Ronald Reagan win the elected against Jimmy Carter and John B. Anderson by 489 electoral votes.
