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Consumer Movement
Different Food Acts become present -
Latino Movement
Farmers start to fight for certain rights -
Counterculture
People start to have their own trends like hippies -
Environmental Movement
Rachel Carson starts to fight for the environment -
Women's Movement
Women start to fight for freedom -
1960 Election
JFK vs Nixon -
Berlin Crisis
Last major incedent of the Cold War -
Integration of Ole Miss
Meredith was allowed to register for classes and became the first black graduate from the university in August 1963. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The USSR was shipping their missiles to Cuba -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage. -
16th Street Church Bomb
Fire bombs were thrown at churches -
Japanese American Movement
Japan and America start having movements for different things -
Camelot
JFK and Nixon fight for Presidency -
JFK Assassination
JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald -
Clean Air Act
Act to make sure air is clean and fresh -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Congress passed a resolution drafted by the administration authorizing all necessary measures to repel attacks against U.S. forces and all steps necessary for the defense of U.S. allies in Southeast Asia. -
Agent Orange
A US tactic to defeat the VC -
Great Society
This was johnson's idea during his presidency -
Malcom X assassination
Malcom X was also assassinated and was a great leader -
Selma March
Civil rights marchers cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on their way from Selma to Montgomery to demand voting rights. -
Teach-In Movement
The Teach-in movement was a method of non violent protest against the U.S. government's involvement in Vietnam. -
Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces, on scores of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam. -
My Lai Massacre
The united States killed as many as 504 Vietnamese civilians. -
Martin Luther King Jr Assassination
King was killed by what some say a conspirancy -
Johnson Withdraw
Johnson chooses to withdraw as president and not run in the next election -
Election of 1968
Richard Nixon is elected as President -
Lee Harvey Oswald
The man who killed JFK -
Paris Oeace Accord
negotiations start to occur -
kent State Riot
Riots broke out for the escape of vietnam war
