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Open Stax: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s: The Kennedy Promise eBookOpen Stax: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s: The Kennedy Promise eBook
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OpenStax
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11th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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eBooks
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Lexile Measures
1280L
eBook

Open Stax: Contesting Futures: America in the 1960s: The Kennedy Promise

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Discusses Kennedy's rise to power and the challenges he faced from within the government, his focus on foreign policy, the conflict with Cuba, American involvement in Vietnam, support for racial equality and civil rights, and Kennedy's assassination.

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Concepts

segregation, fidel castro, john f. kennedy

Additional Tags

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Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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