Chronology: The 1960s

1960	Kennedy-Nixon Debates John F. Kennedy elected president Greensboro lunch counter sitins
1961	Freedom rides Bay of Pigs invasion fails Kennedy meets Khruschev in Vienna Berlin Wall built Peace Corps established Alliance for Progress established
1962	First black student (James Meredith) attends University of Mississippi Cuban Missile Crisis SDS Port Huron Statement
1963	Martin Luther King, Jr. begins Birmingham desegregation crusade Desegregation crisis at University of Alabama Civil Rights March on Washington President Diem toppled by U.S.-supported coup in South Vietnam Kennedy assassinated in Dallas
1964	President Johnson announces war on poverty Freedom summer vote registration campaign in Mississippi Civil Rights Act passed VISTA established Berkeley Free Speech Movement Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed U.S. begins bombing of North Vietnam Johnson elected president
1965	Medicare funding begins Race riots in Watts Malcolm X assassinated American combat troops sent to Vietnam
1968	Race riots in Newark and Detroit Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive Johnson withdraws from presidential race Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated Robert Kennedy assassinated Protests at Chicago Democratic Convention Nixon elected president
1969	Neil Armstrong walks on the moon Woodstock Music Festival

Feldmeth, Greg D. "U.S. History Resources"
http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/USHistory.html (31 March 1998).

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