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Period: to
The !960s
Major Events of the 1960s -
Bay of Pigs
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Kennedy Assainated
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Lyndon Johnson takes over as President
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Civil Rights Acts was signed into law
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Gulf of Tonkin and the Escalation of the Vietnem War
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Voting Rights Act signed into law
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Thurgood Marshall becomes first black Supreme Court Justice
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Dr. Martin Luther King jr Assasinated
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Nixon Elected to President
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United States lands a man on the moon