Major Events of Presidency:
- Greensboro sit-ins
- War resumes in Vietnam
- Freedom rides
- Failed Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna
- Berlin Wall erected
- Peace Corps founded
- Alliance for Progress Founded
- Representatives from 67 tribes draft the Declaration of Indian Purpose
- Students for a Democratic Society formed
- Supreme Court rules in Baker v. Carr
- The Other America published
- Steel price increase provokes controversy
- Kennedy proposes tax cut to stimulate economy
- Desegregation crisis at University of Mississippi
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Martin Luther King Jr. begins Birmingham campaign
- Desegregation crisis at University of Alabama
- Kennedy proposes civil rights bill
- "I Have a Dream" speech given
- Test ban treaty signed
- Buddhist crisis in Vietnam; President Diem overthrown by coup
- The Feminine Mystique published
- Kennedy assassinated