Timeline #10

  • American combat troops sent to Vietnam

  • Malcolm X assasinated

  • Immigration Reform Act passed

  • Voting Rights Act passed

  • Race riots in Watts, Los Angeles

  • NATIONAL organization for Woman formed

  • King led Chicago campaign

  • Race Riots broke out in Detroit

  • Anti-War protesters march on the Pentagon

  • Viet Cong launched Tet Offensive

  • Martin Luther king Jr assasinated

    Martin Luther king Jr assasinated
  • Medicaid and Medicare enacted

  • Robert F. Kennedy assasinated

  • American Indian Movement formed

  • Demonstrators clash with police at the Democratic National Convention

  • "Stonewall" Riot in NYC launched gay liberation movement

  • Americans land on the moon

    Americans land on the moon
  • 400,000 people attended a rock concert in Woodstock, NY

    400,000 people attended a rock concert in Woodstock, NY
  • Anti-War movement staged Vietnam moratorium

  • Students killed at Kent State and Jackson State Universities

    Students killed at Kent State and Jackson State Universities
  • Pentagon papers published

  • Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade

  • Paris accords produced a cease fire in Vietnam

  • Arab oil embargo produced 1st American energy crisis

  • Nixon visits China

    Nixon visits China
  • Impeachment proceedings started against Nixon

  • Nixon resignated

  • Ford pardoned Nixon

  • SALT 1 signed

  • AIM demostrated at Wounded Knee

  • South Vietnam fell to North Vietnam