1957
- Battle of Algiers
- Independence of Ghana
- The Sputnik
1958
- Return of de Gaulle; the Fifth Republic
- European Economic Community (EEC)
1959
- The Cuban Revolution
- Urban renewal in New Haven
1960
- Sino-Soviet split
- First sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C.
- A student sit-in conference at Shaw College, N.C., becomes the start of the Student Noviolent Coordinating Committee
1961
- John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States
- Lumumba, the radical Congolese leader, is murdered
- Invasion of Cuba at Bay of Pigs, a dismal failure
- Generals’ putsch in Algiers (OAS)
- Gagarin becomes the first man in space
- The first Freedom Ride buses (organized by CORE) are burned in Alabama
- Interstate Commerce Commission desgregates bus and train stations
- The Berlin Wall
- Joseph Heller’s Catch 22
1962
- Student for a Democratic Society (SDS): the Port Huron Statement
- Algerian independence
- Pope John XXIII opens Vatican Council II
- The Beatles hit England with Love Me Do
- The Cuban Missle Crisis
- John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth in space
1963
- King’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail
- Assasssination of Medger Evers, NAACP, Miss.
- Massive civil rights March on Washington: “I have a Dream”
- Balck rebellion in Birmingham, Ala., after church bombing
- Fall of Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Lacan is excluded from the French Psychoanalytic Society
1964
- Malcom X leaves the Nation of Islam after a schism
- Free Speech Movement begins at Berkely
- Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man
- Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove
- Freedom Summer in Mississippi
- Gulf of Tonkin “incident”
- Khrushchev falls, enter Kosygin and Brezhnev
- Congress passes the Civil Rights Act
- King receives the Nobel Peace Prize
- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
1965
- First regular US combat troops in Vietnam
- US intervenes with 20,000 troops in the Dominican Republic
- The first teach-ins at the University of Michigan
- Large-scale bombins of North Vietnam
- Anti-war March on Washington
- Riots in the Watts ghetto in Los Angeles
- The Voting Rights Act is signed
- The Great Society Program
- Malcolm X is assassinated
- Bob Dylan goes electric with Bringing it all back home
- Cultural Revolution begins in China
- Sukarno is overthrown in Indonesia; hundreds of thousands of Communists are murdered in the aftermath
1966
- King comes out against the war in Vietnam
- Mao, Quotations of Chairman Mao
- Jefferson Airplane has its first record success
- The National Organization for Women (NOW)
- The Black Panther Party is founded in Oakland, Cal.
- Louis Althusser’s For Marx appears in France
- The Great Coalition (CDU-SPD) in West Germany
1967
- The Shanghai Commune
- Military takes over in Greece
- Black uprisings in the United States, e.g., Detroit
- Six-Day War; Israel occupies the West Bank, Sinai and the Gaza Strip
- de Gaulle visits Quebec
- Psychedelic summer of love in San Francisco
- Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Che Guevara is killed in Bolivia
- Siege of Pentagon
- NOW adopts the Bill of Rights for Women
1968
- The Tet Offensive in Vietnam
- The Prague Spring
- Student uprisings in Warsaw and Mexico City
- Student uprising at Columbia University, New York
- Founding of the March 22 Movement in Paris
- May ’68 in France
- King is assassinated
- Eldridge Clever, Soul On Ice
- Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated
- Democratic Convention in Chicago
- Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
- Nico Pulantzas’ Political Power and Social Classes is published in France
- Tommie Smith and John Carlos make a Black Power solute while receiving their medals at the Mexico City Olympics
1969
- End of Cultural Revolution
- Armed clases along the border of the Soviet Union and China
- Breakup of the SDS
- Woodstock and Altamont music festivals
- Leage of Black Revolutionary Workers founded in Detroit
- The Red Stocking Manifesto, and the Bitch Manifesto
- Repression against the Black Panthers; murder of Fred Hampton et al.
- US puts man on the moon
- Rudi Dutscheke is shot in Berlin
- Days of Rage in Chicago
- Dennis Hopper, Easy Rider
- Willy Brandt and the SPD come to power in West Germany
- Beginning of civil rights movement in Northern Ireland
- Trial of the Chicago Eight
- Richard Nixon
1970
- Kate Millet, Sexual Politics
- Hawaii, Alaska and New York, first states to liberalize abortion laws
- Cambodian invasion; Kent State murders
- Black September in Jordan
- The October Crisis, Quebec
- Strike in Gdansk
- Senate holds ERA-hearings, the first since 1956
1971
- Attica Prison rebellion
- New York Radical Feminists stage Speakout Against Rape
- Fourth World Manifesto by Detroit feminists and Indochinese women
1972
- Common Program, Socialist and Communist Parties in France
- National Conference of Puerto Rican Women founded
- McGovern becomes the Democratic nominee and is defeated by Nixon
- Women make up 40% of Democratic Convention (13% in 1968)
- Judy Chicago, Miriam Shapiro and others open Womanhouse, exhibition at the California Institute of the Arts
1973
- Wounded Knee
- Benjamin Spock denounces his early childcare books as sexist
- Last US troops leave Vietnam
- Allende is overthrown and killed in Chile
- Yom Kippur War; the oil crises
- National Balck Feminist Organization is formed
1974
- Revolution in Portugal
- The Three Marias are freed in Portugal after international feminist campaign
- Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patricia Hearst
1975
- Liberation of Siagon
- Independence of Angola and Mozambique
1976
- Soweto rebellion
- Victory of Partie Quebecois
- Mao dies, and so does Zhao, in Peking