Chapter Review: Timeline of Events

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

1960 Young Americans for Freedom founded; Sharon Statement issued
1961 Kennedy sends military advisers to South Vietnam
Cuban exile invasion force lands at Bay of Pigs
CORE mounts Freedom Rides
Soviets build Berlin Wall
1962 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) issues Port Huron Statement
Cuban missile crisis
1963–1968 U.S. troop levels in Vietnam rise from 16,000 to 536,000
1963 Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique
U.S. and Soviet Union agree to Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald; Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president
1964–1966 Great Society domestic programs enacted
1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed
Freedom Summer project in Mississippi
Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1965 Operation Rolling Thunder begins
Voting Rights Act passed
Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court decision
1966 Black Panther Party formed
National Organization for Women (NOW) formed
1968 American Indian Movement (AIM) founded
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Tet Offensive begins in Vietnam
1969 Gays fight police at Stonewall Tavern
1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision