Vietnam War 1954-1980

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  • Presidential Election between Nixon and JFK

  • JFK elected president

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Lasted from October 14-28

  • Birmingham Campaign

    Paved the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Campaign went from April 3 to May 10, 1963.

  • MLK "I Have a Dream Speech"

  • JFK assassinated

  • LBJ gives a state of the union War on Poverty address

  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

  • Tet Offensive

  • LBJ drops out of 1968 presidential election

  • MLK assassinated

  • Senator Robert Kennedy assassinated

  • Presidential Election of 1968

  • Watergate Scandal

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