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New Frontier
Kennedy's proposals to improve the economy, education, healthcare, and civil rights
Kennedy hoped to jump start the space program -
Bays of invansion
CIA led force of cuban exiles attacked cuba equipped forces landed at the site with no protective cover
Cuban exile leader José Miró Cardona, president of the U.S.-based National Revolutionary Council, blamed the failure on the CIA and the refusal of Kennedy to authorize air cover for the invasion force, but perhaps more crucial was the fact that the uprising the exiles hoped and needed to spark did not happened. -
Construction of Berlin wall
it became a visible symbol of the realiy of two Germanys and gulf between the communist east and democratic west
kennedy responded by sending 1500 US troops to west berlin
Russian and american tanks moved within sight of each other
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Cuban missile crisis
US intelligence discovered that the soviets were building nuclear missile sites in cuba
Kennedy and Khrushchev establish a hot line telephone system to keep communications open
US and USSR avoid nuclear war -
assassination of kennedy
Newspapers had been Americans' primary source of news for over 200 years. That all changed upon Kennedy's assassination, which was the longest uninterrupted news event in TV history until the 9/11 attacks. America tuned in to watch Walter Cronkite report on the developments of the president's assassination as it was breaking, the hunt for the killer afterwards, and the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald at the gun of Jack Ruby on live TV.
US military engaged in vietnam war
greay society in US develop
