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  • Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in North Vietnam (1954)

    Ho Chi Minh Established Communist Rule in North Vietnam (1954)
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    Vietnam War (1955- 1975)

  • Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate (1960)

    Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate (1960)
  • Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)

    Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
    A Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba
  • Peace Corps Formed (1961)

    Peace Corps Formed (1961)
    John F. Kennedy signed into law the Peace Corps Act, making good on a promise to seek Americans “
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    John F. Kennedy (1961- 1963)

    He signed the first nuclear weapons treaty
  • Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

    Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
    the Missile Scare, was a 1 month, 4 day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union
  • Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas (1963)

    Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas (1963)
    His killer was a former marine
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    Lyndon B. Johnson (1963- 1969)

    He was a American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969
  • The Great Society (1964)

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)

    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
  • Tet Offensive (1968)

    Tet Offensive (1968)
    North Vietnamese and communist Viet Cong forces launched a coordinated attack against a number of targets in South Vietnam.
  • My Lai Massacre (1968)

    My Lai Massacre (1968)
  • Vietnamization (1969)

    Vietnamization (1969)
    a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces
  • Woodstock Music Festival (1969)

    Woodstock Music Festival (1969)
    Woodstock was a music festival
  • Draft Lottery (1969)

  • Manson Family Murders (1969)

  • Apollo 11 (1969)

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    Richard Nixon (1969- 1974)

  • Invasion of Cambodia (1970)

    Invasion of Cambodia (1970)
    military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia
  • Kent State Shootings (1970)

  • Pentagon Papers (1971)

    Pentagon Papers (1971)
  • 26th Amendment (1971)

  • War Powers Resolution (1973)

    War Powers Resolution (1973)
  • Fall of Saigon (1975)

    Fall of Saigon (1975)
    known as the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon