1960sExplores the decade of the 1960s worldwide, discussing such topics as the Bay of Pigs, President Kennedy's assassination, and the cultural revolution in China. |
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Air Force aircraft Alabama Aldrin Alexander Dubcek April Arab army assassinated Bay of Pigs became Berlin Biafra Billie Jean King black power bomb Cassius Clay cease-fire China Civil rights march Colonel Communist Cuba Cuban Czechoslovakia Czechs Dallas earth East Germans Eisenhower elected President fight Gaulle India's Indira Gandhi Israel Israeli J.F. Kennedy John F July June killed Kuwait launched leader Lee Harvey Oswald march on Washington Martin Luther King Middle East missiles moon Moscow murdered Nehru Neil Armstrong Nelson Mandela Nigeria Nikita Khrushchev North Vietnam orbit Paris police Prague President Kennedy presidential prime minister protest Race riots Richard Nixon Robert Kennedy Rome Olympics Russians Sharpeville Six-Day Six-Day War sixties Sonny Liston South Africa Soviet Union Space Center Supreme Court television U.S. spy plane U.S. troops United USSR Verwoerd Vietnamese violence Watts whites Yasser Arafat Yuri Gagarin