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President Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu are murdered during a coup by dissident generals of the South Vietnamese army
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Kennedy is assassinated and Johnson is sworn in as president
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An international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War
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The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution effectively launched America's full-scale involvement in the Vietnam War
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a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam and it was considered to be a turning point in the Vietnam War
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The leader of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., was murdered by James Early Ray which sent American into shock
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The Attorney General of the United States was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan
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The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey becoming the 37th president
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The shootings of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces
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a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress
