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Kennedy and Johnson: Key Events of the 1960s by Brandon Maher is a document available to read on EtoBox.

John F. Kennedy pursued an internationalist foreign policy through the creation of organizations like the Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress. His presidency saw the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and the tense Cuban Missile Crisis that was resolved through diplomacy. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon B. Johnson escalated American involvement in Vietnam following the Gulf of Tonkin Incident where the US destroyer Maddox was allegedly attacked by North Vietnam, leading Congress

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Brandon Maher

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