HIST 10613 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Operation Rolling Thunder, Cuban Missile Crisis, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill

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Viet Cong Emerges - coalition of communists an insurgents in South Vietnam
US declares that they will fire back to defend themselves in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin- USS Maddox is attacked along with another ship and congress passes resolution allowing
war waged against North Vietnam w/o formal declaration of war
Operation Rolling Thunder- Johnson apporoves limited bombing in North Vietnam to deter support for
vietcong; goes on for three years
1960- Birth control pill is born
MLK Speech- I have a dream, steps of linolcn memorial
April 16-25, 1961 Bay of Pigs- failed invasion of cuba in attempt to remove Fidel Castro from power
1962- Cuban Missile crisis- kennedy orders naval blockade of cuba to prevent delivery of more missiles,
Russia ends up agreeing to remove the missiles
Kennedy Assasinated- Nov 22nd 1963
1964- Civil rights act- Voting rights act ends discrimination
Nixon wins presidency
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