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Vietnam War
a war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was a communist country and South was not. North Vietnam started the war by trying to overthrow South Vietnams government. -
Kennedy versus Nixon TV Debate
In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first televised presidential debates in American history. The Kennedy-Nixon debate had a major impact on the election’s outcome. -
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. -
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
an international crisis in October 1962, the closest approach to nuclear war at any time between the US and the Soviet Union. When the US discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President John F. Kennedy demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; the Soviet leader Khrushchev acceded to the US demands a week later. -
Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
Kennedy was riding with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie when he was fatally shot by former U.S. Marine Lee Harvey Oswald, firing in ambush from a nearby building. Governor Connally was seriously wounded in the attack. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was enacted on August 10, 1964, it was a joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on August 7, 1964, in response to the Gulf of Tonkin incident. -
My Lai Massacre
The Mỹ Lai massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Sơn Tịnh District, South Vietnam, on March 16, 1968. -
Vietnamization
During the Vietnam war, it was US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. -
Draft Lottery
On December 1, 1969, the Selective Service System of the United States conducted two lotteries to determine the order of call to military service in the Vietnam War for men born from January 1, 1944 to December 31, 1950. These lotteries occurred during a period of conscription in the United States that lasted from 1947 to 1973. It was the first time a lottery system had been used to select men for military service since 1942. -
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Richard Nixon (1969- 1974)
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. -
Kent State Shootings
Killings that took place during a peace rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into neutral Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus. -
Pentagon Papers
The Pentagon Papers is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. The papers were released by Daniel Ellsberg; they were first brought to the attention from a 1996 article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated that the Johnson Administration had "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress. -
War Powers Resolution
The War Powers Resolution is a federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. -
Fall of Saigon
The Fall of Saigon, also known as the Liberation of Saigon, was the capture of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, by the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong on 30 April 1975.
