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Source (Whitehouse Website) Campaigning on the promise of an end to the Korean War and slogans such as "I like Ike," former general Dwight D. Eisenhower wins a sweeping victory in the 1952 presidential election.
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 As per his campaign pledge, Dwight D. Eisenhower personally took a plane to Korea to discuss a cease fire to end the bloody, unpopular conflict. While the armistice was signed soon after Eisenhower threatened to use atomic weapons, this was not the reason the Chinese agreed to the peace. -
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Source Rosa Parks' arrest on a bus in the segregated town of Montgomery started the Monthomery Bus Boycott, in which Martin Luther King, Jr. rose to prominence.
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 Eisenhower supported the Interstate Highway Act, which created a national highway with a production cost higher than the cost of all of the New Deal programs combined. -
Source (biography.com) John F. Kennedy barely beats Vice President Richard Nixon in the presidential race, due in large part to a televised national debate--the first of its kind in United States history--that showed Kennedy's youth and vitality opposed to Nixon's aged, unattractive physique.
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 The Cuban Missile Crisis started when the Soviet Union began installing nuclear missiles in its ally Cuba, which was in range to destroy most of the United States' missile systems before they could be brought online. Nuclear war nearly occured before peace negotiations came about. -
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Decription source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 In response to police brutality to civil rights protestors, John F Kennedy delivered a televised speech in which he called the situation a "moral issue" that demanded a solution, which he committed to find. -
Source The March on Washington protest, during which Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, influenced Kennedy to give his full support to the cause of civil rights.
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Source John F Kennedy authorizes a coup that would replace Diem, not knowing that Diem would also be killed. This change in power left South Vietnam vulnerable to communist forces that invaded soon afterword.
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Source (White House Website) After the assassination of president John F, Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn into office as the thirty sixth president of the United States.
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 Johnson believed that a step-by-step "escalation" of American force would defeat the enemy with minimal losses. He later turned out to be wrong. -
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 Following Johnson's inauguration, Johnson strongly urged Congress to pass the Civil Rights bill that Kennedy had called for the creation of in his 1963 speech. -
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 During his presidency, Lyndon B Johnson passed numerous reforms including Medicaid and educational aid, similar to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program. -
Source Malcom X, after a trip to Mecca that put him on the path of an ideological transformation that could have reshaped the Civil Rights Movement, was murdered by the Nation of Islam because he left them.
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 The Voting Rights Act passes, eliminating literacy tests and other methods of restricting votes to white people. -
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 The Viet Cong suprise attacked twenty seven key South Vietnamize military installations. While the Viet Cong lost this battle, it demoralized the American homefront and was the beginning of the end of the Vietnam War. -
Source Martin Luther King, Jr., the most influential leader of the nonviolent civil rights movement, was shot to death by James Earl Ray.
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 In 1969, Nixon implemented his Philadelphia plan, which required construction-trade unions to establish "goals and timetables" fot eht hiring of black apprentices. -
Source (White House Website) After Lyndon Johnson publicly announces that he will not be running for reelection, the Democratic party is considerably weaker in the 1968 election. So much so that Richard Nixon, after already having lost to John F Kennedy in the previous presidential election, manages to defeat both Democratic nominee Humphrey and third party canidate George C. Wallace.
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 In response to growing concerns about the environment, Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, one of the legacies of his time as president. -
Description Sourcepicture source Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment, which would offer gender equality under the law, for the states to ratify. Though not enough states ratified the amendment, this was an important gain in the feminist movement nonetheless.
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 Title IX of the Education Amendments prohibited sex discrimination in any federally assisted educational program or activivty. -
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 The Supreme Court decided in Roe v. Wade that a woman's decision to terminate a pregnancy was protected by the constitutional right of privacy. -
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 Due to a secret Cambodian bombing mission, Congress passes the War Powers Act over Nixon's veto. The Act requires the president to report to Congress after committing troops to a foreign country. -
Source (White House Website) After the conclusion of the Watergate scandel, vice president Gerald R. Ford became the first vice president to advance to the office of the presidency as a result of a president's resignation.
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Description SourcePicture Source President Ford announced a controversial program for returning Vietnam draft evaders and deserters.
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Description Source: Kennedy, David., et al. The American Pageant. Thirteenth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006 Americans evacuate as many South Vietnamese civilians as they can as the last United States military forces leave Vietnam for the last time.
