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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.
Timelines of United States history by period (time span) — of pre−nationhood and national U.S. history. Pages in category "Timelines of United States history by period" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
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.
Timeline of United States history (1950–1969) ... Events from the year 1950 in the United States. Incumbents ... Walt Disney releases his twelfth animated feature ...
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Timeline of women in warfare in the United States before 1900; Timeline of women in warfare in the United States from 1900 to 1949; Timeline of women in warfare in the United States from 1950 to 1999; Timeline of women in warfare and the military in the United States, 2000–2010; Timeline of women lawyers in the United States; Timeline of ...
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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.