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18. Kennedy/Nixon Debates
It was a major turning point in the 1960 presidential race
-first debate to be on television
-Kennedy won
19. moon landing
America was the first to send people to the moon
-was live on TV
-the first lunar landing
20. Martin Luther King Jr.
Leader in the civil rights movement
-was assasinated
-gave the “I have a dream speech”
21. Letter from a Birmingham Jail
defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism
-letter written by Martin Luther King Jr
-written on April 16, 1963
22. I Have a Dream Speech
a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr
-calls for an end to racism
-called for civil and economic rights.
23. Cesar Chavez
civil rights activist

- co-founded the National Farm Workers Association
- Originally a Mexican American farm worker
24. 1968
Nixon was president
-Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated
-was a leap year
25. assassination of MLK
shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee
- rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, but died later
-Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated by James Earl Ray
26. assassination of RFK
Shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
-He had just won the California presidential primaries
-killed by Sirhan Sirhan
27. Tet Offensive
largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War
-caught the American and South Vietnamese allies completely by surprise.
-Allied victory