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  2. 1960s - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. History of the United States (1964–1980) - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, Republicans were generally united on a hawkish and intense American nationalism, strong opposition to Communism, support for promoting democracy and human rights, and strong support for Israel. [3] Memories of the mid-late 1960s and early 1970s shaped the political landscape for the next half-century.

  4. Timeline of the history of the United States (1950–1969)

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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.

  5. List of timelines - Wikipedia

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    ChronoZoom is a timeline for Big History being developed for the International Big History Association by Microsoft Research and University of California, Berkeley Asian Studies online: a timeline of major developments

  6. Greensboro sit-ins - Wikipedia

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    The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, [1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. [2]

  7. Portal:1960s - Wikipedia

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    In Africa the 1960s was a period of radical political change as 32 countries gained independence from their European colonial rulers. Some commentators have seen in this era a classical Jungian nightmare cycle, where a rigid culture, unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom , broke free of the social constraints of the ...

  8. Category:1960s in the United States - Wikipedia

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    CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties; Civil rights movement; Civil rights movements; Committee on Appeal for Human Rights; List of covers of Time magazine (1960s) Cuban Missile Crisis; Culinary Revolution

  9. 1960 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) steams under Golden Gate Bridge, 16 November 1960. November 8 – 1960 United States presidential election: In a close race, Democratic U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is elected over Republican U.S. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, becoming (at 43) the youngest man elected president.