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Approval of the birth control pill
The invention of the birth control pill spurred the sexual revolution, however it also slowed the baby boom across the country. The invention of the birth control pills gave women a new opportunity to get educated and get careers. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Conflicts between USSR and US were planted in Cuba when the USSR put nuclear missiles in Cuba and promised to remove them if the US promised to invade Cuba. This gave Kennedy a huge decision to make.It is an important period to remember because it was when the US and the USSR came close to a nuclear war. -
Assassination of JFK
Shot by Lee Harvey Oswald with a sniper's bullet, Kennedy was assassinated, leaving the country in shock. As a consequence, Oswald was murdered just before the trial. Kennedy's death left the country in an unsure state during the 60's, just before Johnson took office, nearly changing history forever. -
Civil Rights ACt of 1964
The Civil Right Act of 1964 ended segregation and discrimination against African-Americans in public areas.After the civil rights act, African-Americans were rewarded voting rights as well. These acts during the 60s finally gave African-Americans the long-awaited right to stroll through America with more freedom. -
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This resolution gave Americans the permission to enter the war in Vietnam and congressional approval for expansion in the war. Because Lyndon B. Johnson was afraid of entering war, there was a lot of controversy whether the army should expand in war. -
Death of Civil Rights Leaders
Civil Rights leaders, Malcolm X (in 1965) and Martin Luther King Jr.(in 1968), were assassinated. This created a gap in the civil rights movement, putting everyone into a shock. The civil rights movement was left unorganized and unsure. -
Tet Offensive
The North Vietnamese launched a Tet Offensive against South Vietnam, consisting of a series of fierce attacks. This event caused President Johnson to call for negotiations to end the war. -
Democratic National Convention
The convention consists of anti-war democrats and the counterculture who gathered up. The younger generation, the counterculture, consisted of many liberal students who were against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War. -
Landing on the moon
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 takes the first landing on the moon. This is important because it gave Americans the hope for expansion into space. It also proved American culture and how we always want to achieve the impossible. Men who first stepped on the moon were: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins. -
Woodstock festival
The Woodstock Festival lasted three days in a park in New York. The people who came combined together their liberal ideas of communal living. This includes the act of drugs and expression, all without government interference.
