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newport jazz festival
4th july weekend brought about 12,000 people that eventually broke out into a violent riot the festival managers had to call in the national guard to try and calm the crown down with force. -
nixon-kennedy debates (1st on television)
created a new era of taking advantage of public image and also media exposure, to gain political success. -
the assassination of john f. kennedy
35th president, riding through the 10-mile motorcade in the back seat with his wife in a convertible, he was shot twice and died -
the beatles appear for the first time on the ed sullivan show
73 million people watched the beatles as they performed, the girls went wild screaming, they became a touchstone event for a entire generation -
the gulf of tonkin resolution
gave the troops a broad congressional approval for expansion of the Vietnam War, by the summer the rebel forces gained control of nearly half of south vietnam, Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president, was criticizing the Johnson administration for not pursuing the war more aggressively. -
operation rolling thunder
U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam, intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam’s Communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S -
march on the pentagon
100,000 gathered together headed towards the pentagon to join the peaceful protest against the vietnam war, which 683 people were arrested for the quiet protesting, -
mai lai massacre
horrific incidents of violence against civilians during the Vietnam War, American soldiers brutally killed the majority of the population of the South Vietnamese hamlet -
riots at the chicago democratic convention
at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters battle police in the streets, -
apollo 11 moon landing
American astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin were the first two to ever step foot on the moon, -
woodstock
music festival attracting an audience of 400,000 people, scheduled over three days on a dairy farm in New York state -
chicago 8 trial
trial for eight antiwar activists charged with the responsibility for the violent demonstrations at the August 1968 Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago -
the beatles break up
John Lennon tells group members that he is leaving the band to pursue other things and later on another group member leave and the beatles decide to put a end to the band -
kent state protest
the U.S invaded Cambodia, they needed to draft more troops ineffort to win this war. made people anger enough to start up groups of protests around school campus which ended in a dispatch of 900 National Guardsmen to the campus -
roe vs. wade
a challenge to a Texas statute that made it a crime to perform an abortion unless a woman's life was at stake, The case had been filed by “Jane Roe,” an unmarried woman who wanted to safely and legally end her pregnancy.
