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JFK gives his New frontier speech, electrifying the nation and reasurred people across the nation.
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JFK Speaks at Houston Ministers' Conference
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John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th presidant of the United States of America
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Kennedy holds his first regular live televised press conference in the State Department Auditorium.
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Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union address.
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air strikeAn air strike had failed toknock out the Cuban air force, although the CIA reported that it had succeeded. A small advance group sent to dis- tract Castro’s forces never reached shore. When the main commando unit landed, it faced 25,000 Cuban troops backed up by Soviet tanks and jet aircraft. Some of theinvading exiles were killed, others imprisoned.
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Freedom riders were civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia
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Berlin wall begins construction in 1961 and was later torn down in the 1980's.
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during th summer of 1962, cuban forces increased their firepower
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photographs taken by American planes revealed Soviet missile bases in Cuba—and some contained missiles ready to launch. They could reach U.S. cities in minutes.
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JFK informed an anxious nation of the existence of Soviet missile sites in Cuba and of his plans to remove them.
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Kennedy implements a naval are approximate. “quarantine” of Cuba, blocking Soviet ships from reaching theisland.
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Soviet ships approaching Cuba come to a halt.
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Khrushchev announces plan to remove missiles from Cuba.
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Cuba banns all flights to and from miami
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Kennedy Addresses the Nation about Civil Rights in a speech
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JFK gives this speech to the people of Berlin. "I am a Berliner"
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John F. Kennedy is assinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while touring in Dallas, Texas.
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Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in while aboard Air Force one.
