Review the list of events below. All occurred during the 1960s and 1970s and all helped

shape the future of the United States. Choose the three events that had the greatest long-

term impact on the United States. Explain why you chose each of the three.

Cuban Missile Crisis

Vietnam War

development of the counterculture

assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy

antiwar movement

Watergate

opening of relations with communist China