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This was Kennedys proposal to fix and improve the economy, help the poor, and speed up the space programs.
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Kennedy beat his opponent, Nixon for presidency but only by a thin line.
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Thirteen black and white riders departed from Washington D.C to support segregation on the interstate, with little encounters until they were further south.
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Alan Shepard was the first from the United States to make a 15 minute flight that reached altidudes of 115 miles.
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An airstrike failed to destory Cubas air force, which led to an embarassing defeat.
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UFW first targeted the grape growers of California, and Cesar Chavez organised a successful nationwide consumer boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms
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U.S spy planes saw the Soviets were building milliles on Cuban soil, which id only 90 miles off of Flordia
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This would prevent any Soviet ships bringing in more missiles to Cuba
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Help start off the second wave of the Womens Movement, and was written by feminist Betty Friedan.
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Martin Luther King Jr. joined many others to help foward the civil rights bill.
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United States, Soviet Union and Great Britain all agreed to ban above ground nuclear testing as a result of The Cuban missile Crisis.
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JFK and his wife were in Texas to get supporters for the next election, but Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed him.
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At 2:35 on Air Force One Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn into presidency after Kennedy was pronounced dead.
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President Johnson put together the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of Kennedy.
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The Great Society, like The New Frontier, wanted to help povery, education, healthcare, voting rights, conservation, and beautification projects.
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The Tonkins Resolution gave Jonhson the power to do what ever in the Vietnam War.
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The Daisy commercial became the most famous in history, and made it clear that in the hands of Barry Goldwater we would be in nuclear war
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Thousands of irate students took over the university asministration building and 700+ students where arrested and even some of the faculty memebers joined in on the protest
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One of the most violent riots left 34 people killed and 1000 injured all because a police office hit a 21 year old for drunk driving, which outraged the growd.
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NOW was founded out of frustration of how women werent being taken seriously.
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A new militan political party was formed by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton and the Panters wanted blacks to lead their own communities.
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The Viet Cong attack most major cities in Sounth Vietnam signifing that America might not win this war.
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My Lai was sheltering 250 Viet Cong memebers but instead Williams L. Calley took it out on the older people, women, and children of the village.
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The pressures of the Vietnam war basically pushed Johnson to not run again for President.
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James Earl Ray shot and killed Martin Luther King jr. in Memphis, Tennessee while he was standing on his motel balcony.
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While RFK was as a campaign victory celebration, Sirhan Sirhan shot and killed him.
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Nixon wins against Hubert H. Humphrey and takes back the white house from the Democrats.
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The Apollo program completed its mission, and Neil Armstrong became the first to ever set foot on the moon.
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Woodstock was the pop culture music event of the decade and arguably to this day the single most profound event in the history of music.
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After Woodstock came another rock concert where the Rolling Stones performed under the protection of Hells Angels and one guy was beaten to death.
