1960s Political Movements & Stuff

By Keaton Mallicoat

  • Student Democratic Society is founded

    The first SDS society meets in Ann Arbour, Michigan

  • Protests across the country follow the Greensboro Sit-ins

    After the Greensboro Sit-in protests in North Carolina, a bunch of protests spark across the country

  • President Kennedy is elected

    John Franklin Kennedy is elected in a very close election between himself, Richard Nixon, and the not very close Harry Byrd

  • The Peace Corps is created

    Kennedy signs an executive order creating the Peace Corps.

  • Bay of Pigs failure

    The secret CIA operation fails and stuff.

  • United States launch Operation Chopper

    U.S. forces participate in major combat in Vietnam for the first time.

  • Marilyn Monroe dies

    The actress dies of a barbituate overdose and she predates the explosion of many similair overdoses

  • The Cuban Missle Crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis brings the world to the brink of nuclear war.

  • Birmingham Campaign

    Between the periods of April-May a bunch of Civil Rights Activitists are arrested across periods of time throughout the Southern United States

  • Assassination of JFK

    President Kennedy is assassinated in an open motor-cade parade in Dallas, Texas