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Hace 4 días · Bay of Pigs invasion, abortive invasion of Cuba at the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), or Playa Giron (Giron Beach) to Cubans, on April 17, 1961, by some 1,500 Cuban exiles opposed to Fidel Castro. The invasion was financed and directed by the U.S. government and came at the height of the Cold War.
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Truman Doctrine, pronouncement by U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman...
- Truman Doctrine
8 de may. de 2024 · Freedom Rides, in U.S. history, a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961. Infographic showing the routes and timeline of the Freedom Rides of 1961. In 1946 the U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation in interstate bus travel.
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Hace 1 día · About Historic Speech. Digital Identifier: USG-17. Title: Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961. Date (s) of Materials: 20 January 1961. Description: Motion picture of President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address in Washington, D.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren administers the oath of office to President Kennedy.
6 de may. de 2024 · Having promised in May 1960 to defend Cuba with Soviet arms, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev assumed that the United States would take no steps to prevent the installation of Soviet medium- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba. Such missiles could hit much of the eastern United States within a few minutes if launched from Cuba.
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- The Cuban missile crisis was a major confrontation in 1962 that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of So...
- The Cuban missile crisis took place in October 1962.
- The Cuban missile crisis marked the climax of an acutely antagonistic period in U.S.-Soviet relations. It played an important part in Nikita Khrush...
- Whether the U.S. should maintain its embargo against Cuba that was inflamed by the Cuban Missile Crisis is hotly debated. Some say Cuba has not met...
Hace 5 días · In an address to a Joint Session of Congress on May 25, 1961 to deliver a special message on "urgent national needs," President Kennedy asked for an additional $7 billion to $9 billion over the next five years for the space program, proclaiming that “this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a m...
24 de may. de 2024 · The history of the United States from 1945 to 1964 was a time of high economic growth and general prosperity. It was also a time of confrontation as the capitalist United States and its allies politically opposed the Soviet Union and other communist states; the Cold War had begun.
24 de may. de 2024 · made a summary report to the President on the Council's accomplishments in 1961. The text of that report follows: Nineteen sixty one was a year of decision and progress in the space activi- ties of the United States. space successes through the combination of Presidential leadership, Space
