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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
1963

  • John F. Kennedy assassinated; Lyndon B. Johnson assumes presidency
1964

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Economic Opportunity Act inaugurates War on Poverty

  • Free Speech Movement at Berkeley

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1965

  • Immigration Act abolishes national quota system

  • Medicare and Medicaid programs established

  • Operation Rolling Thunder escalates bombing campaign (March)

  • First U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam
1967

  • Hippie counterculture’s “Summer of Love”

  • 100,000 march in antiwar protest in Washington, D.C. (October)
1968

  • Tet offensive begins (January)

  • Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated

  • Women’s liberation protest at Miss America pageant

  • Riot at Democratic National Convention in Chicago (August)

  • Richard Nixon elected president
1969

  • Stonewall riots (June)
1970

  • National Women’s Strike for Equality
1971

  • Swan v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg approves countywide busing
1972

  • Nixon visits China (February)

  • Nixon wins a second term (November 7)
1973

  • Paris Peace Accords end Vietnam War
1974

  • Milliken v. Bradley limits busing to school district boundaries
1975

  • Vietnam reunified under Communist rule

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: Which specific developments from this timeline made the years 1964, 1965, and 1968 turning points in politics, foreign policy, and culture and why?