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| CHAPTER 34 | NEW FRONTIERS: POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE 1960S | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1955–1956 |
Montgomery bus boycott |
| February 1960 |
Sit-in movement began |
| 1960 |
Kennedy elected |
| April 1961 |
Bay of Pigs invasion |
| 1961 |
Freedom rides |
| 1961 |
Berlin Wall erected |
| October 1962 |
Cuban missile crisis |
| 1963 |
Gideon v. Wainwright |
| 1963 |
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” |
| August 1963 |
March on Washington |
| November 1, 1963 |
Ngo Dinh Diem murdered |
| November 22, 1963 |
John F. Kennedy assassinated |
| July 1964 |
Civil Rights Act passed |
| August 1964 |
Tonkin Gulf Resolution |
| 1964 |
Johnson elected |
| April 1965 |
Selma to Montgomery march |
| August 1965 |
Voting Rights Act |
| August 1965 |
Watts riots |
| 1965 |
Immigration Act |
| 1965 |
Miranda v. Arizona |
| January 31, 1968 |
Tet Offensive |
| April 4, 1968 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated |
| June 6, 1968 |
Robert F. Kennedy assassinated |
| November 1968 |
Nixon elected |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Describe Kennedy’s style and compare it to the style of his predecessor and
his successor.
- Evaluate Kennedy’s domestic legislative achievements.
- Assess the Kennedy record in foreign affairs.
- Account for LBJ’s legislative accomplishments.
- Explain why the Vietnam War became a quagmire for the United States and
why LBJ changed his policy there in 1968.
- Trace the transformation of the civil rights movement into the black power
movement.
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