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In 1961, the CIA-sponsored invasion of at the Bay of Pigs was a complete failure and serious embarrassment to President Kennedy.
From the time of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 until his assassination in 1968, , head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, led the nonviolent civil- rights movement in America.
In the early 1960s, Black Muslims Elijah Muhammad and urged blacks to reject white American society and pursue a policy of black separatism.
The 1964 Act outlawed discrimination against blacks and women and banned all formal racial segregation.
President Johnson labeled his domestic welfare program that included a "war" on poverty the .
The 1965 Immigration Act did away with the system of admitting immigrants on the basis of their and replaced it with a system based on each immigrant's skills and need for political asylum.
South Vietnamese President received the backing of the United States government from 1954 until his assassination in 1963.
In the 1964 Resolution, Congress gave President Johnson a virtual blank check to wage war in Vietnam.
In 1968, Minnesota Senator challenged President Johnson for the presidential nomination of the Democratic party.
The Vietcong's in January-February 1968 caught the United States and South Vietnam by surprise and was a key turning point in the Vietnam War.
In 1968, then former Alabama Governor ran for the presidency on the conservative American Independent party ticket.
On March 16, 1968, American troops massacred defenseless villagers in the Vietnamese hamlet of .
During his presidency, Richard Nixon relied heavily on the judgment of his chief foreign-policy advisor, .
Pursuing a policy of , President Nixon tried to relax tensions in U.S. relations with both the Soviet Union and China in the early 1970s.
In the 1972 presidential election, President Nixon easily defeated the Democratic nominee, .
