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1960 BCE
Election of Kennedy
Kennedy was a Democratic senator from Massachusetts. He ran against Richard Nixon, Eisenhower's vice president. His youthful energy and confidence helped him win the presidential election. He was the nation's youngest elected president, and he was known for his finest moment of leadership for the Cuban Missile Crisis during the Cold War. -
Period: 1948 BCE to 1952 BCE
Marshall Plan
The United States economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe. The United States gave $13 billion in economic support to help rebuild the Western European economy after the World War II -
Truman Doctrine
Is a policy that promised aid to people struggling to resist threats to democratic freedom. This is important because it was an American policy of providing economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey. This policy's outcome led to formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
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Start of Vietnam War
It started as a civil conflict that pitted the North Vietnamese communist government and south Vietnamese communist rebels, and it was a costly armed war. -
Assassination of Kennedy
Kennedy and his advisers were preparing for his new presidential campaign when Kennedy got shot ridding the motorcade in Dallas, Texas. A bullet struck the president's neck and head. He wasn't able to survive in the hospital, so he died at that same day. Less than an hour earlier the police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald who was known to be the suspect of Kennedy's assassination.
