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The Kennedy-Nixon debates cemented television's position as the essential new medium for American political discourse. ![]()
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev publicly denounced U.S. policies at on several occasions in 1960, and his outbursts at the United Nations attracted notoriety. ![]()
The presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba within striking distance of United States provoked an international crisis which briefly raised the prospect of nuclear war. ![]()
The November assassination of President Kennedy shocked the American public. Vice president Lyndon Johnson was promptly sworn in as president aboard Air Force One. ![]()
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, mandating desegregation in public places. Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. ![]()
President Johnson expanded and promoted Great Society programs, intended to
reduce poverty following initiation of his "War on Poverty" in 1964. ![]()
The Vietnam War was one of the most divisive conflicts in American history.
Political indecisiveness and loss of public support were key contributing
factors to America's eventual withdrawal. ![]()
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American to be appointed to the Supreme Court. ![]()
The presidential candidates debated the merits of the Vietnam War, and the Democratic convention in Chicago became a byword after violent clashes between protestors and police during anti-war riots. |
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