| 1961 | Freedom rides Twenty-third Amendment gives District of Columbia the right to vote for President Berlin crisis Peace Corps Bay of Pigs 16,000 in Vietnam |
| 1962 | University of Mississippi integrated Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1963 | Civil Rights march on Washington JFK assassinated Feminine Mystique |
| 1964 | Free speech movement at Berkeley Beatles Twenty-fourth Amendment outlaws the poll tax War on poverty Gulf of Tonkin |
| 1965 | Great Society Operation Rolling Thunder in Vietnam Malcolm X assassinated |
| 1966 | Black Power France withdraws from NATO N. O. W. formed |
| 1967 | Detroit Riot Peace movement in the U. S. |
| 1968 | Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther Kin murdered Tet Offensive Johnson won't seek re-election Richard Nixon elected President |
| 1969 | Vietnamization First man on the moon Nixon proposed New Federalism |
| 1970 | Massacre at Kent State EPA established Cambodian invasion creates anti-war turbulence SALT talks begin |
