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1960s political conferences (17 P) ... Pages in category "1960s political events" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
1960 – U-2 incident, wherein a CIA U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet Union airspace 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins, sparked by four African American college students refusing to move from a segregated lunch counter, and the Nashville sit-ins, spur similar actions and increases sentiment in the Civil Rights Movement.
The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1]While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting Earth, perform spacewalk and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western ...
1960s political events (4 C, 6 P) F. 1960s political films (5 C, 9 P) I. 1960s in international relations (11 C, 4 P) P. ... Pages in category "1960s in politics"
In Africa the 1960s was a period of radical political change as 32 countries gained independence from their European colonial rulers. Some commentators have seen in this era a classical Jungian nightmare cycle, where a rigid culture, unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom , broke free of the social constraints of the ...
World map of alliances in 1970 The 1975 Apollo-Soyuz space rendez-vous, one of the attempts at cooperation between the US and the USSR during the détenteThe Cold War (1962–1979) refers to the phase within the Cold War that spanned the period between the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in late October 1962, through the détente period beginning in 1969, to the end of détente in the ...
Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. February 11 – The airship ZPG-3W is destroyed in a storm in Massachusetts. February 13 – Nashville sit-ins begin. February 18 – The 1960 Winter Olympics open in Squaw Valley, Placer County, California. February 29 – The first Playboy Club opens in Chicago.
The SLATE student political party, which resembles what later came to be termed the "New Left," is formed at the University of California, Berkeley. [45] [46] Eisenhower is the first U.S. president to ask a joint session of Congress to pass the long-debated Equal Rights Amendment. [47]