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John F. Kennedy is the youngest person to be inaugurated, he was the 35th president
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He fulfilled his campaign pledge and created the Peace Corps
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The U.S.-sponsored invasion at the Bay of the Pigs failed and JFK takes responsibility for the disaster.
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The group Congress of Racial Equality or CORE set out on their journey of freedom rides to fight against segregated transportation.
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President Kennedy pledges to support the space program and help the program raise money so the US could land man on the moon (even though he didn’t live long enough to see Armstrong land in July of 1969).
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The United States, United Kingdom and the Soviet Union met for the Geneva conference to reach an agreement banning the testing of nuclear weapons.
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The U.S. equals the Soviet Union in scientific accomplishments when Astronaut John Glenn orbits the Earth.
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Segregation in transportation facilities ruled unconstitutional.
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President Kennedys approach to civil rights changed when he had to intervene in a deadly riot that took place at the University of Mississippi. People were outraged that the college would be integrated.
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Announcement of the Cuban Missile Crisis- President Kennedy attended a televised address to inform citizens of the missiles discovered in the Soviet Union.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis is resolved, JFK pledges not to invade Cuba and secretly agrees to remove missiles in Turkey.
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President Kennedy gave a commencement address at American University to talk about the relations between the US and the Soviet Union including the nuclear ban test treaty.
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The March on Washington brought 250,000 people to support the civil rights movement.
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JFK signs a limited nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom.
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John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald during a motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
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A man named Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald just days after the President's death.
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President John Kennedy was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
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"John F. Kennedy Library and Museum." JFK Library. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Apr. 2016. http://www.jfklibrary.org/
Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia. “John F. Kennedy.” Accessed May 1, 2016. http://www.millercenter.org/president/kennedy
Schmidt, Steffen W., Mack C. Shelley, II, and Barbara A. Bardes. American Government and Politics Today: Brief Edition. 2014-2015 ed. N.p.: Cengage Learning, n.d. Print.
