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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.
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; See also: History of the United States (1945–1964) ... The Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel is formally opened to traffic in New York City. 1950 ...
The United States helped form a strong military alliance in NATO in 1949 including most of the nations of Western Europe, and Canada. In Asia, however, there was much more movement. The United States failed to negotiate a settlement between its ally, nationalist China under Chiang Kai-shek, and the communists under Mao Zedong.
Timeline of pre–United States history; Timeline of the history of the United States (1760–1789) Timeline of the history of the United States (1790–1819) Timeline of the history of the United States (1820–1859) Timeline of the history of the United States (1860–1899) Timeline of the history of the United States (1900–1929)
Timelines of United States history by period (time span) — of pre−nationhood and national U.S. history. Pages in category "Timelines of United States history by period" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in ...
1950 in the United States; 1950s American automobile culture; 1950s House; 1950s–1960s North American drought; 1951 in the United States; 1952 in the United States; 1953 in the United States; 1954 in the United States; 1955 in the United States; 1956 in the United States; 1957 in the United States; 1958 in the United States; 1959 in the ...
Events from the year 1960 in the ... Northwest Airlines Flight 710 crashes near Tell City, ... List of American films of 1960; Timeline of United States history (1950 ...