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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.
Music history of the United States (1900–1940) Music history of the United States in the 1950s; Music history of the United States in the 1960s; Music history of the United States in the 1970s; Music history of the United States in the 1980s; History of people in the United States African-American history; History of Asian Americans
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 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.
United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. Batman premieres on ABC television. January 13 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
The Oxford History of the United States book series originated in the 1950s with a plan laid out by historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter for a multivolume history of the United States published by Oxford University Press, modeled on the Oxford History of England, that would provide a summary of the political, social, and cultural history of the United States for a general ...
After 1800 cotton comprised the chief export of the United States . Confederates thought (mistakenly) that European need for cotton would require intervention to help the South, for “Cotton is King.” [ 154 ] [ 155 ] Southerners calculated their need for international markets called for aggressive internationalist foreign policies.
1950s; 1960s; 1970s; See also: History of the United States (1945–1964) ... Timeline of United States history (1950–1969) ... Events from the year 1950 in the ...