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| 1965–66 |
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| The drug culture. Drugs became a prominent part of student culture in the late 1960s, and marijuana seemed to be the students' drug of choice. Others began experimenting with drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). | 1 |
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| 1966 |
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| After 1965, the antiwar movement and draft protests increased in intensity. The most explosive expressions of unrest came in 1970 after Pres. Richard Nixon ordered American troops to invade Cambodia. | 2 |
| Betty Friedan and 27 other professional women started the National Organization for Women (NOW). Formed by women radicalized by civil rights and student protests, the women's liberation movement soon gained momentum. | 3 |
| Black power movement. Stokely Carmichael, head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), helped to usher in a new African-American movement when he proclaimed the need for “black power.” The Black Panther Party was only one of the many black power organizations that soon emerged. Building upon the legacy of Malcolm X, the Panthers urged African Americans to take pride in their blackness and to take up arms and defend themselves “by any means necessary.” | 4 |
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| May 5 |
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| Sen. J. W. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, began to attack the administration's Vietnam policy. | 5 |
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| June 5–26 |
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| African Americans marched on the capitol at Jackson, Miss., in a drive to induce African Americans to register to vote. | 6 |
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| July |
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| Race riots occurred in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland, and in other cities. | 7 |
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| July 1–4 |
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| At the convention of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) at Baltimore, the organization endorsed the objective of black power, rejected the doctrine of nonviolence, demanded the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Vietnam, and supported resistance to the draft. | 8 |
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| July 4–9 |
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| The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) convened in Los Angeles and rejected black power as a separatist movement. | 9 |
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| Oct. 15 |
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| The Department of Transportation was created to exercise control over air, rail, and highway transportation. | 10 |
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| Oct. 19–Nov. 2 |
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| Pres. Johnson visited New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, South Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and South Korea. At a conference in Manila (Oct. 24–25) leaders of the allied nations pledged support for the war in Vietnam. | 11 |
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