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March 3 – Elvis Presley returns home from Germany to the United States, after being away on military duty for 2 years. March 5 – Elvis Presley receives his honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. March 6 – Vietnam War: The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers will be sent to Vietnam.
The history of the United States from 1964 to 1980 includes the climax and end of the Civil Rights Movement; the escalation and ending of the Vietnam War; the drama of a generational revolt with its sexual freedoms and use of drugs; and the continuation of the Cold War, with its Space Race to put a man on the Moon.
1960s in the United States by state or territory (62 C) 1960s disestablishments in the United States (66 C, 4 P) 1960s establishments in the United States (68 C, 12 P)
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.
In the first half of the decade, "the economy was just fabulous during the 1960s, and nobody really talked about it," said Terry Anderson, a history professor and author of a textbook on the era.
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 ...
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.
Books on the history of the United States: A History of Money and Banking in the United States; A Monetary History of the United States; A Patriot's History of the United States; A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States