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Peace Corps
JFK establishes Peace Corps -
Bay of Pigs
U.S backed Bay of Pigs invasion crushed by Cubans -
Limited Nuclear Test Ban treaty
United States, Great Britain, and the USSR sign the Limited Nuclear Test Ban treaty -
Orbiting the Earth
Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. becomes the first American to orbit the earth -
U.S Steel
President Kennedy forces U.S Steel to roll back pice hike -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis takes world to brink of nuclear war -
Assassination
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president -
War on Poverty
Lyndon B. Johnson declares war on poverty -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress overwhelmingly passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution -
Re-election
Johnson wins presidency in landslide -
Vietnam
LBJ commits fifty thousand American troops to combat in Vietnam -
Medicare and Medicaid
Congress inacts Medicare and Medicaid -
NOW
National Organization for Women formed -
6 day war
Israel wins Sid Day War in Middle East -
Detriot Riots
Riots in Detriot kill forty-three, injure two thousand, and leave five thousand homeless -
Vietcong
Vietcong launch the offensive -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jur. assassinated in Memphis -
Robert Kennedy
Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles -
No re-election
Johnson announces that he will not seek re-election
