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

Civil Rights Act

Economic Opportunity Act inaugurates War on Poverty

Free Speech Movement at Berkeley

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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

Hippie counterculture’s “Summer of Love”

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

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

Stonewall riots (June)

National Women’s Strike for Equality

Swan v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg approves countywide busing

Nixon visits China (February)

Nixon wins a second term (November 7)

Paris Peace Accords end Vietnam War

Milliken v. Bradley limits busing to school district boundaries

Vietnam reunified under Communist rule