| 1961 | 1973 |
| – Building of Berlin Wall suggests permanence of the East Bloc | – OPEC oil embargo |
| 1962–1965 | 1975 |
| – Second Vatican Council | – Helsinki Accords |
| 1963 | 1979 |
| – Wolf publishes Divided Heaven; Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique | – Margaret Thatcher becomes British prime minister; founding of West German Green Party; Soviet invasion of Afghanistan |
| 1964 | 1985 |
| – Civil Rights Act in the United States | – Mikhail Gorbachev named Soviet premier |
| 1964–1973 | 1987 |
| – Peak of U.S. involvement in Vietnam War | – United States and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treaty |
| 1966 | 1989 |
| – Formation of National Organization for Women (NOW) | – Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan |
| 1968 | 1989–1991 |
| – Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia; “May Events” protests in France | – Fall of communism in eastern Europe |
| 1971 | December 1991 |
| – Founding of Greenpeace | – Dissolution of the Soviet Union |