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 |