60s Era Timeline

By TristynNBeaver@scsd2.k12.in.us
  • Newport Jazz Festival

    Newport Jazz Festival

    The first jazz festival
  • Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)

    Nixon-Kennedy Debates (1st on Television)

    It was the first presidential debate on TV
  • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy was assassinated
  • The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show

    The Beatles Appear for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show

    The first appearance of the Beatles
  • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    gave President Lyndon Johnson authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam.
  • Operation Rolling Thunder

    Operation Rolling Thunder

    a bombing campaign against North Vietnam
  • March on the Pentagon

    March on the Pentagon

    a demonstration that was against the Vietnam War
  • Mai Lai Massacre

    Mai Lai Massacre

    a massive killing of unarmed civilians
  • Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention

    Riots at the Chicago Democratic Convention

    protests against Americans in the Vietnam War
  • Woodstock

    Woodstock

    a big art fair
  • Chicago 8 Trial

    Chicago 8 Trial

    trial of eight radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
  • The Beatles Break Up

    The Beatles Break Up

    The band The Beatles went their separate ways
  • Kent State Protest

    Kent State Protest

    It was a protest about the authorization of the US invading Cambodia to fight the Viet Cong there
  • Roe vs. Wade

    Roe vs. Wade

    allowing abortion to be legal