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The 1960s Timeline
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JFK gets elected as the United States President
John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in the Presidential Election, first catholic president -
Peace Corps
JFK announces the establishment of Peace Corps, helping people in different countries. -
Bay of Pigs
Attempted U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba ends in disaster at the Bay of Pigs -
U.S. Involvment
President JFK decides he wants U.S. to have a stronger presence in South Vietnam, big impact with the United States involvement in Vietnam. -
Operation Chopper
First combat operation by the Americans. -
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the Beginning of the Environmental Movement
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and the Beginning of the Environmental Movement -
"Ole miss" Desegregates
James Meredith, an African American Air Force veteran wanted to enroll at "Ole Miss", an all-white University in Mississippi. With the NAACP's help, he won a court case that ordered the university to desegregate. -
Blockade- Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK announces a naval quarantine of Cuba -
March on Washington
Over two hundred thousand protesters met in Washington D.C. The main events took place at the Lincoln Memorial where speakers addressed the crowd. -
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
A bombing occurred at the Sixteenth Street BaptistChurch in Birmingham. The church had been the SCLC's headquarters earlier that spring. Four African American girls were killed. -
Lyndon B. Johnson becomes 36th president
Lyndon Baines Johnson became the 36th President of the United States following the assassination of John F. Kennedy -
Freedom Summer
One thousand white and black volunteers traveled to Mississippi to educate African Americans and help them to become registered voters.They also formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party(MFDP). -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gave President LBJ freedom to handle all situations of Vietnam without Congress -
Operation Rolling Thunder
U.S. bombing operation in Vietnam that had great effects. This date was when President Johnson accepted the operation. -
First Bombing of Operation Rolling Thunder
Operation Rolling Thunders first bombs were used, physical beginning of war. -
Johnson Introduces Voting Rights Act
President Johnson realized the need for significant voting rights legislation, -
Peace Offering for Vietnam
Big moment of the Vietnam war because there was an actual attempt to resolve the conflict. -
Lyndon Johnson sends troops to Dominican Republic
Sent troops to Dominican Republic after a military coup. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Banned literacy test and gave the federal government power to oversee voter registrations and elections in states that had descriminated against minorities. -
Unsafe at Any Speed
by Ralph Nader, published in 1965, is a book detailing resistance by car manufacturers to the introduction of safety features, like seat belts, and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety. -
Publication of Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the "second wave" of American feminism in the twentieth century. -
"Black Power"
SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael was the first to use the term "Black power". While he had meant that blacks should use their economic and political power to gain equality, many whites saw it as a call for violence. -
NOW is founded
The largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members. (National Organization for Women) -
UFW’s Nationwide Boycott of grapes picked on nonunion farms
A series of strikes, mass pickets, boycotts, and secondary boycotts which began August 23, 1970, and led to the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history. -
First African American Supreme Court Justice
Nominated by President Johnson, Thurgood Marshall was appointed as the first African American Supreme Court Justice. -
Johnson Announces Decision Not to Seek Reelection
President LBJ decides not to run for reelection because of the pressures from Vietnam and the bad public image. -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination
King was shot while standing on his motel balcony. He died shortly later at the hospital. He was thirty-nine years old. James Earl Ray was , a white ex-convict was charged with his murder. -
End of Operation Rolling Thunder
After three and a half years the U.S. ends Operation Rolling Thunder, this showed that the war was coming to an end. This operation caused a ton of death and destruction on both American and Vietnam soldiers and outsiders. -
U.S. Withdrawal of Troops
President Nixon announces the United States will be withdrawling 25,000 troops from Vietnam immediately, -
Woodstock
Music festival during Era of Activism "3 days of peace and music"
