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The Election of 1960
Kennedy and his running mate, Lyndon Johnson won the election by an extraordinarily close margin -
JFK took office
Determined to prevent the spread of communism at all costs -
Kennedy's Domestic Programs
Kennedy said that the nation was poised at the edge of a "New Frontier." The name stuck, it referred to Kennedy's proposals to improve the economy, assist the poor, and speed up the space program. -
Freedom Rides
Designed to test whether southern states would obey the Surpreme Court ruling and allow African Americans to excersise the rights newly granted to them. -
Freedom Rides
13 freedom riders, both African Americans and white Americans, boarded two interstate buses heading South. -
Space Program
The United States made its own first attempt to send a person into space. Astronaut Alan Shepard made a 15 minute flight that reached an altitude of 115 miles. -
Mainstream Media
The sexual revolution in the counterculture led to more open disscussion. The 1962 book by Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, became a bestseller. -
Enviromental Movement
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring launches the enviromental movement -
Integration at Ole Miss
A black student was rejected to Ole Miss which was an all white school. Meredith got legal help from the NAACP, due to a turn down on racial grounds. -
Moving Toward Feminism
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan inspires the women's movement -
Clash in Birmingham
Civil rights leaders looked for chances to protest segregation nonviolently, King called it "the most segregated city in America." -
Tax Cut
To help the economic slump, Kennedy proposed a large tax cut over 3 years -
The March on Washington
More than 200,000 people came from all over the country to call for "jobs and freedom," the offical slogan of the march. -
Kennedy is assassinated
Riding through downtown Dallas in a motorcade suddenly shots range out. Kennedy was shot and slumped over on his wife. -
LBJ'S speech to Congress
Johnson began the recovery process with a speech to Congress -
Warren Commission
President Johnson appointed The President's commission on the Assassination of president John F. Kennedy. -
Johnson's Great Society Speech
Great Society described Johnson's goals for his presidency, The Great Society programs included major poverty relief, education aid, healthcare, voting rights, conversation and beautifulication projects, urban renewal, and economic development in depressed areas. -
Freedom Summer
Leaders of the major civil rights groups organized a voter registration drive in Mississippi -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Johnson let Congress know that he would accept no compromise on civil rights, then the House of Representives proceeded to pass the bill. -
Gulf of Tonkin
Johnson announces United States ships attacked by North Vietnam/ Congress then passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. (Full control over events in Vietnam) -
Nobel Peace Prize
King won the nobel peace prize due to his key role in almost every major civil rights event. -
The Immigration Act of 1965
Replaced the varying quotas with a limit of 20,000 immigrants per year from any one country outside the Western Hemisphere -
Consumer Movement
Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed is published, initating the consumer protection movement -
National Organization for Women (NOW)
The goal of NOW was "to take action to bring American women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now." -
The Black Panthers
A new militant political party, the Black Panthers, was formed by activists Bobby Seale and Huey Newton -
Latinos boycott
Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers organize a nationwide boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms -
Tet Offensive begins
Surprise attacks on major cities and towns and American military bases throughout South Vietnam. (Turning point in the war) -
Latinos Fight for Change
In March 1968, 10,000 Mexican American students walked out of five such Los Angeles high schools to protest their unequal treatment. -
My Lai Massacre
Where thousands of women and children were rounded up and killed -
King is assassinated
King Spoke, referring to threats made against his life, then the next day as King stood on the balcony of his motel, a bullet fired from a high-powered rifle and tore right into him. An hour later, King was dead. -
The Democratic Convention
Massive riots held because everyone was fed up with the war/ sided with police -
1968 Election
Nixon won 43.4 percent of the popular vote, the war influenced the election -
American Indian Movement (AIM)
Two Chippewa activists, set out the goals of a new activist organization, for better conditions and opportunites. -
Vietnamization
A new policy that involved removing American forces and replacing them with South Vietnemese soldiers -
Space Program
Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon -
Confronting the government
More than 75 Native American protesters landed on Alcatraz Island to claim the 13-acre rock which allowed male Native Americans to file homestead claims on federal lands. -
Woodstock
Music and Art fair where the counterculture all came together in peace -
Woodstock
Festival that celebrates rock music and the counterculture -
Nixon's law and order policy
Violence rises, Nixon does not like any protest against the war, so therefore those who dissagreed with protesters were nickednamed "The Silent Majority." -
Altamont
Rock festival in California, during the era of "peace and love." Recreation of Woodstock.
