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| Became the 35th president of the United States. He won the election of 1960. He was more confident on television than his opponent (Richard Nixon). With the civi rights movement. |
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| March 1960, President Eisenhower gave the CiA permission to train Cuban exiles. He hoped it would trigger a mass uprising that would overthrow Casto (the supreme leader of Cuba). On April 17th, 1961 1300 to 1500 Cubans exiles supported by the US military landed on the isalnd southern coast to Bahia de Cochinos. It was unsuccessful. |
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| Became a communist party organizer in the 1920's. Within four years of Stalin's death in 1953, Khrushev had consolated his power in the Soviet Union. Took off his show and pounded it on a desk to protst the U-2 incident. |
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| offered economic and technical assistance to latin american countries between 1961 and 1969, the US invested almost 12 billion dollars in latin america in part to deter these countries from picking up Fidel Castro's revolutionary ideas. |
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| investigated and concluded that Oswald had shot the president (kennedy) while acting on his own. Later in 1979, the reinvestigation concluded that Oswald was part of a conspiracy. Investigators also said that two people may have fired at the president. Numerous other people have made investigations. |
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| Johnson (may 1964) summed up his vision for america in a phrase the great society. at U of M, Johnson outlined a legislative program that would end poverty and racial injustice. |
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| In 1963, Ernesto Miranda was arrested at his home in Phoenix Arizona on charges of kidnapping and rape. After two hours of questioning by police, he signed a confession and was later convinced, largely based on the confession. Miranda appealed he claimed that his confession was invalid because it was forced because the police never advised him of his rights to an attorney. 1966. |
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| Doing something other than using nuclear threats. |
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