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First televised debate ending with a democratic Kennedy victory against republican canidate Nixon
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Kennedy wins by a small margin with no mandate
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Failed attempt to assassinate Castro
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The division of communist and non commusist berlin, east and west berlin
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Warren Court decided that police must have specific warrants to make arresrs
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The case led warren comission to result to in state prayer seperation of church and state
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On the verge of nuclear war with USSR as a result of the bay of pigs invasion
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Kennedy goes on television to announce that he had auuthorized a naval quarantine around cuba during the cuban missile crisis
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Warren court decided that voting districts must be based on population
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Book published by Betty Friedan which inspired the womens movement
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King was put in the birmingham jail because he was protesing in a heavily segregated area
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Protest for civil rights where speeches were given, including Martin Luther King's famous "i Have a dream" speech
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Kenndy was assansinated during parade in dallas texas
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After kenndedy is assassinated, johnson takes oath for office
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Oswald was a suspect in the JFK assassination and two days later Jack Ruby assassinates oswald
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Warren court decided that all suspects must have the right to an attorney
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Ended the poll tax
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The act banned the use of different voter registration standards, prohibited discrimination in public acommodations, allowed the withholding of federal funds and banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion or national originality by employers and unions
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US ships were attacked by north vietnam and this gave johnson full control over the events in vietnam
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Warren court decided that all suspects have the right to an attorney during questioning
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students attacked the administration building with violent riots after not allowing them to protest and about 700 students were arrested
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sequence of events to help the american people
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African Americans walk from selma to the state capital, montgomery
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part of johnsons great society to help those who cant afford health care and medical aid
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law aimed at reducing the barrier that prevented african americans from voting in part by increasing the federal governments authority to register
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Ralph Nader published the unsafe at any speed book initiating the consumer protection movement
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The national organizaton for wormen is formed because they were frustrated with the other womens groups who were unwilling to pressure the equal employment opportunity commission to take womes grievances more seriously
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warren court decided that all suspects must be informed of their rights upon arrest
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Turning point in the war; surprise attacks on major cities and towna and american military basis throughout south vietnam
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10,000 Mexican american students walked out of five high schools and protested their unequal treatment
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In order to get a high body count, US troops went into a small village in south vietnam where 250 memebers of the viet cong were being sheltered and the american troops beat killed and rapped anyone who was seen as an enemy
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Johnson decides not to run for a second term because his people bagan to oppose the war
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King is assassinated and a lot of hope was lost for the civil rights movement
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attempted to come up with an agreement to end vietnam war but failed
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Almost all hope was lost after King and Kennedys assasination
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Nixon is elected into office against Humphrey after johnsons withdraw
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three day festival celebrating rock music and the counterculture
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Nixon's appealed to those who quietly supported his policies
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Nixon plans to pull troops from vietnam and replaces them with south vietnam troops
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300,000 people gathered for a rolling stones concert in altamont california and it signaled that peace will not last forever due to the violence that erupted
