Study
Tool: Chronological Events of the 1960-1968 Era
|
Does not include issues on social history covered
separately.
Date |
Pres. … Event |
Beyond
|
Foreign Policy |
Government Institutions |
US Eco. Dev. |
Issue/Org. Dev. |
Political Party Dev. |
1955-02 |
|
S. Vietnam: 1st |
|
|
|
|
|
1960-02 |
|
|
|
|
|
Greenboro,
NC, sit-in |
|
1960-11 |
“[M]easured approach”[2] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1961-03 |
Executive order: Peace Corps est. |
|
23rd
Amendment[3] |
|
|
|
|
1961-04 |
|
USSR: Yuri Gagarin orbits[4] |
CIA covert action: Bay of Pigs in Cuba |
|
|
|
|
1961-05 |
|
|
|
|
|
Congress of Racial Equality[5]
freedom riders |
|
1961-06 |
|
|
Khruschev, Kennedy meeting |
|
|
|
|
1961-08 |
|
USSR: Berlin Wall est. |
|
|
|
|
|
1961-09 |
|
|
|
Ban segregated terminals for interstate carriers |
|
|
|
1962 |
|
|
|
|
|
Michael
Harrington, The Other America; Rachel Carson, Silent Spring |
|
1962-04 |
|
|
|
|
Steel industry price rise, then retreat |
|
|
1962-09 |
|
|
|
|
|
James Meredith, Ole Miss |
|
1962-10 |
Troops, federalized State Guard |
|
US: Cuba blockade |
|
|
|
|
1963 |
|
|
|
|
|
Betty
Friedan, The Feminine Mystique; James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time |
|
1963-04 |
|
S. Vietnam: Buddhist protests |
|
|
|
Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers est. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bull Conner – Birmingham, Alabama |
|
|
1963-07 |
|
US/USSR: hotline est. |
|
|
|
|
|
1963-08 |
|
|
Test Ban Treaty |
|
|
March on Washington; King’s “I Have a Dream” |
|
1963-09 |
Vietnam = “their war”[6] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1963-11 |
Assassination; LBJ president |
S. Vietnam: coups; Diem dead |
|
|
|
|
|
1964-02 |
|
|
|
|
Tax cut and budget cut |
|
|
1964-06 |
|
|
|
|
|
KKK/police murder of civil rights workers[7] |
|
1964-07 |
|
|
|
Civil Rights Act[8] |
|
Racial disturbances: Harlem, Rochester (NY);
Philadelphia (PA), Paterson (NJ) |
Divisive Republican convention |
1964-08 |
|
|
|
|
Economic Opportunity Act[9] |
|
|
1964-08 |
1st, bombing of N. Vietnam |
|
2nd, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
|
|
|
Fannie Lou Hamer,
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party |
1964-11 |
Barry Goldwater vs. Lyndon Baines
Johnson |
|
|
24th Amendment[10] |
|
|
Great Society; War on Poverty begins |
1965-03 |
|
|
|
|
|
Selma March; deputies/state police attack |
|
1965-08 |
|
|
|
Voting Rights Act |
|
|
|
1965-08-11-16 |
|
|
|
|
|
Watts (Los Angeles) riot[11] |
|
1965-08 |
|
|
|
Medicare/Medicaid est. |
|
|
|
1965-10 |
|
|
|
Immigration law – no “national origins” quota[12] |
|
|
|
1966 |
|
|
|
|
|
National Organization for Women |
|
1966-10 |
|
|
|
Department of Transportation est. |
|
|
|
1967-06 |
|
Six Day War |
|
|
|
|
|
1968-01 |
|
Tet offensive |
|
|
|
Hair[13] |
|
1968-03-12 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
E. McCarthy primary in NH |
1968-03-31 |
Withdrew candidacy |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1968-04 |
|
|
|
|
|
Assassination of Martin Luther King |
|
1968-06 |
|
|
|
|
|
Assassination of Robert Kennedy |
|
1968-08 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Divisive Democratic convention, Chicago, televised
|
1968-11 |
Richard M. Nixon
vs. Hubert Humphrey vs. George Wallace (American Independent) |
|
|
|
|
|
campaign to the “silent majority” |
Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2014 |
WCJC Department: |
History – Dr. Bibus |
Contact Information: |
281.239.1577 or cjb_classes@yahoo.com |
Last Updated: |
2014 |
WCJC Home: |
[1] US-backed Ngo Dinh Diem rejects Geneva Accords over election to reunify North and South Vietnam, declares S. Vietnam a republic. US advisors increase in #s.
[2] To quote the Ayers text,
Kennedy made moderate changes because he lacked the huge mandate given to FDR
or Ike in their 1st terms:
34,227,096 Kennedy
34,108,546 Nixon
[3] District of Columbia voting rights
[4] US commitment to manned moon landing - US: Alan Shepherd, suborbital flight; John Glenn orbits.
[5] Est. 1942
[6] Televised interview Sept 02 with President Kennedy; refers to the Vietnamese conflict as “their war.”
[7] Mississippi voter registration attempts; white mobs; firebombing; murder of James Chaney, Andrew Goldman, Michael Schwerner (last 2 from North and white).
[8] Equal Employment Opportunities Commission est.; Title VII – race, creed, sex, and national origin.
[9] Job Corps, Neighborhood Youth Corps, VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America); food stamps, Head Start.
[10] Poll tax banned
[11] Later riots include 1966-07 Chicago (IL); 1967-07 Newark (NJ), Detroit (MI). Black power events include new militancy of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); rise of Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, later assassinated by that group (1965); Black Panthers in CA.
[12] Shift in immigration from traditional areas to coming from Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexico; India, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan.
[13] The counterculture movement is converted to a popular Broadway play.