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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.
President Harry S. Truman sends United States military advisors to Vietnam to aid French forces. The first TV remote control , Zenith Radio 's Lazy Bones , is marketed. Summer: An epidemic of polio breaks out on Wythe County, Virginia . 189 cases are reported, with 17 fatalities.
1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen, reaching a nadir in early 1933. 1930 – The Motion Picture Production Code becomes set of industry censorship guidelines governing production of the vast majority of United States motion pictures released by major studios; is effective for 38 years
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.
The 1950s mark the peak of union membership as a percentage of the total US workforce, with labor membership peaking at 35 percent of the nonagricultural workforce by mid-decade. [93] The United Auto Workers (UAW) was founded in 1935 and helped play a major role in reshaping the automotive industry after World War II.
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