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Chapter 30
JFK and his presidency
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History
10th Grade
06/13/2006

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Bay of Pigs
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Rebals invading Communisty Cuba, no commotion and the Cubans took over within 3 days
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Cuba had missiles aimed at the US, US ships stopped going to cuba

got very close to a nuclear war but nothing happend
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Election of 1960
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The first presidential debates were held on TV in what year?

People on the Radio thought Nixon won

People watching TV thought FDT won
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Warren Commission
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President Johnson sent Warren to investigate the assasination of JFK. After 10 months it was concluded that Oswald and Ruby were individual in crime
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John F Kennedy
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youngest president ever elected, shot and killed in a motorcade
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Richard Nixon
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Eisenhower's VP, Republican candidate
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Lee Harvey Oswalkd
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assasinated JFK in Dallas in 1963
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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JFK's vice president and successor after the assassination
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Jack Ruby
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Killed Oswald while being moved from one jail to another
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