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A website with information on John F. Kennedy's presidency.Richard Nixon barely loses to John F. Kennedy in the 1960 election for president. John F. Kennedy's vice- president is Lyndon B. Johnson.
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In addition, Kennedy sends more military aid to Indochina and the Peace Corps was created on this day also.
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An invasion of Cuba is executed by the United States under the orders of President Kennedy. The invasion was a failure that made the country look bad.
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The United States decides to start nuclear testing underground.
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President Kennedy advises Americans to prepare by building fallout shelters.
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Soviets are using Cuba's proximity to the United States as a way to point missiles at America. A naval blockade is ordered by President Kennedy.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested during a protest and is put in jail at Birmingham, Alabama.
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The Civil Rights Bill is proposed by JFK.
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Website discussing the controversy of JFK's assassination.President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as president.
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Supposedly, President Johnson increased the United States' involvement in Vietnam War. Also the day of President Kennedy's funeral.
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A website describing the life of Lyndon B. JohnsonPresident Johnson is re elected over Barry Goldwater by a longshot.
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United States starts to bomb North Vietnam on this day.
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The first American troops ever step foot on Vietnam soil and the American combat troops fight the first battle in South Vietnam.
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25,000 American soldiers get orders to Vietnam.
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In Washington D.C. 25,000 walk in the protesting march.
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Burning draft cards as a way of anti-war protest becomes illegal in the United States.
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25,000 American troops are sent to the Cambodian border.
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MLK Jr. starts to speak publicly protesting the Vietanm War.
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The amount of American troops in Vietnam reaches 448,400.
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Deadly riots in Detroit lead to 43 dead.
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This far in the Vietnam War, 15,000 American soldiers have been killed. 60% of those soldiers were killed in 1967.
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A website describing the Vietnamese massacre at My Lai.200-500 Vietnamese civillians are murdered.
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Robert F. Kennedy, JFK's little brother, announces that he will be running for president this year.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is shot, which lead to his death in Memphis on his hotel balcony. He was 39 years old.
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Just like his older brother, Bobby Kennedy is also assassinated. Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed him.
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Richard Nixon is elected president with Spiro T. Agnew beside him as vice president.
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After meeting with South Vietnam's president, President Nixon announces 25,000 American troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam immediately.
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North Vietnam's president, Ho Chi Min, dies.
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A website about the dangerous herbicide that continued to be sprayed even after it was banned in the United States.After being banned in the United States, Agent Orange continues to be sprayed in Vietnam.
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A cease fire is signed between all warring parties in the Vietnam War.
