America 1960-1969: World Events Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 28 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1960-1969.

America 1960-1969: World Events Research Article from American Decades

This Study Guide consists of approximately 28 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of America 1960-1969.
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Pope Paul VI is the first Roman Catholic pontiff to visit Africa.

3 Sept.

North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh dies at age seventy-nine.

17 Oct.

A subsidiary of the Gulf Oil Corporation, the Bolivia Gulf Company, is taken over by the Bolivian government.

31 Oct.

A U.S. Marine hijacks a jet from California to Rome in the first transatlantic hijacking.

3 Nov.

President Richard M. Nixon appeals to "the great silent majority of my fellow Americans" to support his policies on Vietnam and his social policies.

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