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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.
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Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the ... Nuclear Age (a.k.a. Atomic Era) (1945/1950–present ... Logarithmic timeline shows all history on one ...
1950: After their defeat in the Chinese Civil War, parts of the Nationalist army retreated south and crossed the border into Burma. [ 17 ] : 65 The United States supported these Nationalist forces because the United States hoped they would harass the People's Republic of China from the southwest , thereby diverting Chinese resources from the ...
Timeline of the history of the United States (1930–1949) Timeline of the history of the United States (1950–1969) Timeline of the history of the United States (1970–1989) Timeline of the history of the United States (1990–2009) Timeline of the history of the United States (2010–present)
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II , aided by the post-World War II economic expansion .
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