Personally Meaningful Social and Historical Events

Great Depression

Peace movement

World War II

Martin Luther King, Jr.

McCarthyism

Black power

Hiroshima

1968 Democratic Convention

Cold War

Nixon presidency

Korean War

First man on the moon

Eisenhower presidency

Woodstock

Kennedy presidency

Kent State/Jackson State

Peace Corps/VISTA

Women's movement

Cuban missile crisis

Sexual revolution

Civil rights movement

Watergate

Vietnam war

Oil crisis

War on poverty

Three Mile Island

  Regents of the University of Michigan   This list details American historical events to which different generations have formed personally meaningful attachments.

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