History 450
Tygiel
|
Year |
United States |
California |
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1961 |
John F Kennedy inaugurated as President of the United States |
School of Anti-Communism holds mass rally in Orange County Magnolia School District Recalls liberal school board trustees |
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1962 |
Cuban Missile Crisis |
Pat Brown re-elected Governor over Richard Nixon |
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1963 |
March on Washington Kennedy Assassination |
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1964 |
Mississippi Summer Tonkin Gulf Resolution leads to escalation of War in Vietnam Passage of Civil Rights Act Lyndon Johnson Defeats Barry Goldwater |
Berkeley Free Speech Movement Proposition 14 |
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1965 |
U.S. begins bombing of North Vietnam Passage of Voting Rights Act |
Watts Riots Delano Farmworkers’ Strike Begins |
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1966 |
Emergence of Black Power Movement Whites Expelled from SNCC |
Farmworker Victory at Delano Election of Ronald Reagan as Governor |
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1967 |
Detroit and Newark Race Riots Anti-War March on the Pentagon |
Beginning of Grape Boycott Stop the Draft Week Rise of the Black Panthers Summer of Love |
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1968 |
Tet Offensive Lyndon Johnson announces he won’t run for re-election Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy Columbia Strike Riots at Democratic Convention Richard Nixon Elected President |
San Francisco State Strike Reverend Chuck Smitrh launches “Jesus Movement” |
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1969 |
Woodstock |
San Francisco State Strike Ends People’s Park Riots in Berkeley |
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1970 |
U.S. invasion of Cambodia |
Reagan re-elected Robert Schuller launches Hour of Power TV Show |