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John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in the Presidential Election, first catholic president
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JFK announces the establishment of Peace Corps, helping people in different countries.
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Attempted U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba ends in disaster at the Bay of Pigs
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President JFK decides he wants U.S. to have a stronger presence in South Vietnam, big impact with the United States involvement in Vietnam.
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First combat operation by the Americans.
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the Beginning of the Environmental Movement
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James Meredith, an African American Air Force veteran wanted to enroll at "Ole Miss", an all-white University in Mississippi. With the NAACP's help, he won a court case that ordered the university to desegregate.
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JFK announces a naval quarantine of Cuba
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Over two hundred thousand protesters met in Washington D.C. The main events took place at the Lincoln Memorial where speakers addressed the crowd.
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A bombing occurred at the Sixteenth Street BaptistChurch in Birmingham. The church had been the SCLC's headquarters earlier that spring. Four African American girls were killed.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson became the 36th President of the United States following the assassination of John F. Kennedy
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One thousand white and black volunteers traveled to Mississippi to educate African Americans and help them to become registered voters.They also formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party(MFDP).
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Gave President LBJ freedom to handle all situations of Vietnam without Congress
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U.S. bombing operation in Vietnam that had great effects. This date was when President Johnson accepted the operation.
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Operation Rolling Thunders first bombs were used, physical beginning of war.
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President Johnson realized the need for significant voting rights legislation,
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Big moment of the Vietnam war because there was an actual attempt to resolve the conflict.
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Sent troops to Dominican Republic after a military coup.
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Banned literacy test and gave the federal government power to oversee voter registrations and elections in states that had descriminated against minorities.
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by Ralph Nader, published in 1965, is a book detailing resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety.
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The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the "second wave" of American feminism in the twentieth century.
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SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael was the first to use the term "Black power". While he had meant that blacks should use their economic and political power to gain equality, many whites saw it as a call for violence.
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The largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members. (National Organization for Women)
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A series of strikes, mass pickets, boycotts, and secondary boycotts which began August 23, 1970, and led to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history.
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Nominated by President Johnson, Thurgood Marshall was appointed as the first African American Supreme Court Justice.
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President LBJ decides not to run for reelection because of the pressures from Vietnam and the bad public image.
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King was shot while standing on his motel balcony. He died shortly later at the hospital. He was thirty-nine years old. James Earl Ray was , a white ex-convict was charged with his murder.
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After three and a half years the U.S. ends Operation Rolling Thunder, this showed that the war was coming to an end. This operation caused a ton of death and destruction on both American and Vietnam soldiers and outsiders.
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President Nixon announces the United States will be withdrawling 25,000 troops from Vietnam immediately,
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Music festival during Era of Activism "3 days of peace and music"
