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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.
The book depicts American history throughout the 1960s. The book's title refers to a fragile but stable social fabric that was present in the United States in the 1950s, held together by racial segregation, an expanding military industrial complex and repression of sexual rights; a social order that would be shattered in the 1960s.
The Fifties (1993) is a history book by David Halberstam centered on the decade of the 1950s in the United States.Rather than using a straightforward linear narrative, Halberstam separately profiles many of the notable trends and people of the post-war era, starting with Harry S. Truman's stunning presidential victory in 1948 against Thomas E. Dewey.
By the mid-1960s, the majority of American workers enjoyed the highest wage levels in the world, [51] and by the late-1960s, the great majority of Americans were richer than people in other countries, except Sweden, Switzerland, and Canada. Educational outlays were also greater than in other countries while a higher proportion of young people ...
[99] [100] The student movement and women's movement in the United States called into question not just needed educational reforms and social imbalances, but led to the realization that the political system and the structures of power were authoritarian and coercive and needed restructuring.
1950s–1960s North American drought; 1960 in the United States; 1961 in the United States; 1962 in the United States; 1963 in the United States; 1964 in the United States; 1965 in the United States; 1966 in the United States; 1967 in the United States; 1968 in the United States; 1969 in the United States
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 ...
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; See also: History of the United States (1945–1964) Timeline of United States history (1950–1969) ... Al Milgrom, comic book writer;