Chapter 27 Timeline Exercise

correct incorrect Feb Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter, Greensboro, NC

correct incorrect Nov John F. Kennedy elected president over Richard M. Nixon

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Dec Creation of National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam (the Viet Cong)

correct incorrect May First freedom rider buses leave Washington, DC, heading across the South

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbits Earth

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr 17 Bay of Pigs invasion fails

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jun Kennedy meets Khrushchev in Vienna

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Aug Construction of Berlin Wall begins

correct incorrect Feb U.S. astronaut John Glenn orbits Earth

correct incorrect Jun 15 Publication of Students for a Democratic Society's "Port Huron Statement"

correct incorrect Jun Supreme Court ruling of Engel v. Vitale banning prayer in public schools

correct incorrect Sep Publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

correct incorrect Oct James Meredith successfully integrates University of Mississippi

correct incorrect Oct 14–26 Cuban missile crisis

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Soviets install missiles in Cuba

correct incorrect Feb Publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

correct incorrect Mar Supreme Court ruling of Gideon v. Wainwright

correct incorrect Aug March on Washington

correct incorrect Sep 16th Street Baptist Church bombed in Birmingham, AL

correct incorrect Nov Assassination of John F. Kennedy

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May–Jun Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jun Kennedy gives "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in Berlin

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Nov 1–2 Military coup deposes President Ngo Dinh Diem

correct incorrect Jan Surgeon General says smoking causes lung cancer, beginning a decades-long antismoking movement

correct incorrect Mar Supreme Court ruling of New York Times v. Sullivan

correct incorrect Jun–Aug Mississippi Freedom Summer

correct incorrect Jul Civil Rights Act bans racial discrimination on public accommodations

correct incorrect Oct–Dec Free Speech movement at University of California, Berkeley

correct incorrect Nov Lyndon Johnson elected president over Barry Goldwater

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Feb Beatles land at JFK International Airport, launching "British Invasion"

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr Malcolm X travels to Middle East and Mecca

correct incorrect Feb–Mar Civil rights demonstration at Selma,AL

correct incorrect Feb Murder of Malcolm X

correct incorrect Jun 7 Supreme Court ruling on Griswold v. Connecticut

correct incorrect Jul Passage of Medicare

correct incorrect Aug Passage of Voting Rights Act

correct incorrect Aug Watts racial uprising

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Apr U.S. invasion and occupation of Dominican Republic

correct incorrect Jun Supreme Court decides Miranda v. Arizona

correct incorrect Jun Robert F. Kennedy visits South Africa

correct incorrect Jun Founding of NOW

correct incorrect Oct Creation of Black Panthers

correct incorrect Oct SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael calls for Black Power

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution begins in China

correct incorrect Jun Release of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

correct incorrect Jun–Aug Summer of Love in San Francisco

correct incorrect Jun Reies Tijerina leads raid on federal courthouse in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

correct incorrect Jul Detroit racial uprising increases racial divide

correct incorrect Aug Thurgood Marshall becomes first African American justice of Supreme Court

correct incorrect Sep Formation of Brown Berets

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Jean-Paul Sartre organizes International War Crime tribunal to judge U.S. conduct in Vietnam

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Jun Six-Day War between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Publication of Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber's The American Challenge

correct incorrect Apr Passage of Fair Housing Act

correct incorrect Aug Woodstock Music Festival

correct incorrect Nov Indian activists begin occupation of Alcatraz

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Aug Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in response to Prague uprisings

correct incorrect THE WORLD: May Student uprising in Paris leads to crippling nationwide general strike

correct incorrect THE WORLD: Oct Mexican troops kill hundreds of young people protesting the Olympic Games in Mexico City