Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1958 Kingston Trio popularizes folk music

1960 Kennedy-Nixon debates: Kennedy’s skillful use of television important in winning the election

Greensboro sit-ins: college students push civil rights

Kennedy elected president: first Roman Catholic to win the office

1961 Alliance for Progress: Kennedy program for Latin America

Peace Corps begun: sets idealistic tone

Alan Shepard, Jr. first American in space: U.S. tries to catch the Soviet Union in the Space Race

Bay of Pigs invasion: American-aided Cuban rebels fail to overthrow Castro

Kennedy steps up U.S. role in Vietnam: concerned over falling Asian dominoes

Vienna Summit: Kennedy worries that he left a weak impression on Kruschev

Berlin Wall built: Kruschev tires to push advantage gained at the Vienna Summit

Area Redevelopment Act: modest bill to alleviate rural and urban poverty

CORE freedom rides begin: Farmer hopes to expose conditions of segregation to the nation

1962 Michael Harrington's The Other America published: book reveals the depths of American poverty

Cuban missile crisis: to the brink of nuclear war

James Meredith desegregates University of Mississippi: opposed by the governor of the state but enforced by federal marshalls

Engel v. Vitale: school prayer case

Baker v. Carr: court mandates one person, one vote

SDS Port Huron Statement: students condemn bureaucratic society and calls for participatory democracy

1963 Diem assassinated in Vietnam: South Vietnamese leader deposed with tacit approval of U.S.

Nuclear test ban treaty: Cuban Missile Crisis results in U.S.-U.S.S.R. treaty

University of Alabama desegregation crisis: Gov. Wallace defies court order

Kennedy introduces Civil Rights Bill:

March on Washington: crowds hear Martin Luther King support civil rights

Gideon v. Wainwright: all citizens have a right to legal counsel

Kennedy assassinated: Lyndon Johnson becomes president

1964 Escobedo v. Illinois: critical criminal rights case

Griswold v. Connecticut: Court permits sale of and medical advice about contraceptives

Civil Rights Act passed: most important rights bill since Civil War era passed

SNCC Freedom Summer: campaign for voting rights meets with violence

Harlem and Rochester race riots: first of the decade's urban unrest

Johnson enacts Kennedy tax cuts: key economic reform

Economic Opportunity Act: cornerstone of Great Society

VISTA established: Peace Corps equivalent to work in America

Wilderness Preservation System Act: major environmental reform

Johnson defeats Goldwater: elected president

Berkeley Free Speech Movement: inspires student unrest

Beatles introduce British rock: major change in pop culture

1965 Johnson launches Great Society: legislative blitz produces major legislation

King’s Selma protest: leads voting rights march

Voting Rights Act: second major civil rights bill

Watts riots: Los Angeles in flames

Malcolm X assassinated: Black Muslim leader killed

Medicare and Medicaid Acts: major health care reforms

Elementary and Secondary Education Act: federal aid to education

Omnibus Housing Act: federal aid for housing

Immigration Act: ends quota system

Escalation in Vietnam: U.S. sends thousands of military advisors

1966 Miranda v. Arizona: citizens must be informed of their rights when arrested by police

Stokely Carmichael of SNCC coins "Black Power" slogan: group urges blacks to assert and take their rights

Model Cities Act: federal aid to cities

Minimum wages raised

1967 Black Panthers battle Oakland, California Police: militant tactics urged

First "be-in": counterculture flourishes

1968 Fair Housing Act: last major Great Society bill

1969 Woodstock Music Festival: celebration of counterculture

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