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The SNCC stands for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. This organization was one of the major civil rights organizations during the Civil Rights movement.
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The Flintstones was a television show. The Flintstones are a modern stone age family.
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The Democrat candidate, John F. Kennedy, was elected on the 1960 elections and he won against the Republican candidate, Richard Nixon.
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This debate was between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon. The majority of people who watched the debate on television believed Kennedy won because of his looks; however, the majority of people who listened on the radio believed Nixon won.
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The Russians sent Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut, aboard Vostok 1. Yuri Gagarin was the first man to enter space and the first man to orbit the earth.
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The Berlin Wall was to separate East Berlin and West Berlin and people who tried to cross over the wall would be shot.
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Roger Maris broke the single season home run record in 1961 which was previously held by Babe Ruth since 1927. Maris hit over 60 home runs in a single season.
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The SDS is the Students for a Democratic Society which is an American student activist movement. The Port Huron Statement is the organization's manifesto.
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Marilyn Monroe was an actress, singer, and model. Monroe died of an overdose.
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James Meredith was the first African American student that was admitted to the University of Mississippi.
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This was a tense 13 day confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union which started because the US discovered the Soviet Union had missiles in Cuba.
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James Bond is a fictional agent for MI6, also known as Agent 007. In this movie James Bond fights against Dr. No
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This speech was a public speech delivered during the March on Washington where Dr. King called for the civil and economic equality and end of racism.
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President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
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The Beatles were an English rock band that formed in Liverpool in 1960.The members were John Lennon Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.
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The Beatles appearance on the Ed Sullivan show was the first American televised performance by the Beatles.
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The New York World's Fair was held in Queens, NY. The fair is noted as a showcase of mid 20th century American culture and technology.
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This incident was a confrontation on the sea with the US and the Vietnamese and led to greater involvement from the US in the Vietnamese War. The destroyer USS Maddox and three North Vietnamese torpedo boats fought; there were no US casualties.
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In the 1964 Presidential elections the two main candidates were Lyndon B Johnson (D), the incumbent) and Barry Goldwater (R). Lyndon B Johnson beat Barry Goldwater and remained the president.
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Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was very prominent and influential during the Civil Rights movement.
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These riots took place in the Watts neighborhood in LA and lasted for 6 days
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LSD stands for lysergic acid diethylamide and is a hallucinogenic drug. LSD was first declared illegal in Nevada and California and the rest of the states followed later.
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Star Trek is a tv show set in the future and follows a crew of a starship.
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The Summer of 1967 is considered the Summer of Love because about 100,000 people, mostly hippies, went to San Francisco's neighborhood Haight-Ashbury.
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The two teams that faced off in the Super Bowl were the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs. It was held in the Los Angeles Coliseum and is the only Super Bowl that didn't sell out.
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Muhammed Ali was a boxer, activist, and philanthropist. He refused to be drafted to the Vietnam War because of his religious belief.
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the Beatles. It spent 15 weeks at number one in the US.
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This music festival was an international pop music festival held in California. This was a three day concert.
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Thurgood Marshall was the first African American to Supreme Court justice. He served as a justice from 1967 to 1991.
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The Tet Offensive was a series of surprise attacks done by the Vietcong against the South Vietnamese.
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Martin Luther Kin Jr. was a Baptist minister as well as the leader and spokesman for the Civil Rights Movement. He was known for his nonviolent and civil disobedience tactics during the Civil Rights movement.
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Robert Kennedy was a senator from New York and a presidential candidate in the 1968 elections. The shooter was 24 year old Sirhan Sirhan and was sentenced to death originally but was then changed to life in prison.
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The Democratic National Convention of 1968 was held in Chicago, Illinois. Protesters gathered to protest the Vietnam War and the political status quo.
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The former Vice President, Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee Hurbert Humphrey.
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The Stonewall riots were a series of violent demonstration by members of the gay community.against a police raid.
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The astronauts, Michael Collins, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin, launched to the moon aboard the Apollo 11 on July 16, 1969 and four days later they landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two people to walk on the moon.
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The Manson Family was a cut lead by Charles Manson. The actress, Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Manson Family.
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Woodstock was a 3 day long musical festival in NY. It is regarded as a pivotal movement in popular music history and the counterculture movement.
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The Altamont Music Festival was a counterculture rock concert in northern California.This event is best known for the violence and deaths that occurred during it.
