John Fitzgerald Kennedy

By Daniel56
  • Birth

    Birth

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy also know as JFK has a birthday on May 29 1917
  • Moving

    Moving

    Kennedy family moves to Riverdale, New York
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    Stock market crashes and that triggers the Great Depression
  • Highschool

    Highschool

    JFK enrolls in Choate
  • Graduation

    Graduation

    JFK graduates from Choate, ranked 64th in a class of 112
  • Collage

    Collage

    JFK attends Harvard University
  • WWII

    WWII

    Outbreak of WWII in Europe
  • Military Service

    Military Service

    JFK enters the U.S. Armed Forces
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, compelling the U.S. to enter World War II.
  • Commanding

    Commanding

    JFK serves on, and then commands, a Motor Torpedo Boat, or PT Boat, in the South Pacific.
  • Naval Hospital

    Naval Hospital

    JFK enters Boston's Chelsea Naval Hospital with a lower back condition.
  • Dad's Death

    Dad's Death

    Joseph Kennedy, Jr. is killed while flying a mission over Europe.
  • Discharged

    Discharged

    JFK is discharged from the Navy.
  • House of representatives election

    House of representatives election

    JFK is elected to the House of Representatives.
  • Winning the Democratic primary for Mass.

    Winning the Democratic primary for Mass.

    JFK wins the Democratic primary for Massachusetts' Eleventh Congressional District.
  • McCarthyism

    McCarthyism

    Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy claims to have a list of Communists employed in the State Department. The era of "McCarthyism" begins.
  • Marriage

    Marriage

    JFK marries Jacqueline Bouvier.
  • Daughter of JFK

    Daughter of JFK

    Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, JFK's daughter, is born.
  • Democratic nomination

    Democratic nomination

    JFK wins the Democratic nomination for president and picks Lyndon Johnson as his running mate.
  • JFK becomes President

    JFK becomes President

    JFK defeats Nixon and becomes president.
  • JFK has a son

    JFK has a son

    Birth of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
  • Bay of Pigs

    Bay of Pigs

    Attempted U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba ends in disaster at the Bay of Pigs.
  • JFK is sworn as President

    JFK is sworn as President

    John F. Kennedy is sworn in as President of the United States.
  • Quarantine of Cuba

    Quarantine of Cuba

    JFK announces naval quarantine of Cuba.
  • Agreement of the Soviet Union

    Agreement of the Soviet Union

    Soviet Union agrees to remove its missiles from Cuba.
  • Moral crisis

    Moral crisis

    JFK calls civil rights struggle a "moral crisis" for America.
  • Military dictatorship

    Military dictatorship

    U.S.-backed coup overthrows the government of South Vietnam, replaces it with a military dictatorship.
  • Nuclear test-ban treaty

    Nuclear test-ban treaty

    U.S. and Soviet Union agree to a nuclear test-ban treaty.
  • JFK is assassinated

    JFK is assassinated

    JFK is assassinated while riding through the streets of Dallas, Texas
  • New President

    New President

    Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President after JFK assassination