1960 - 1969

1961 Berlin Wall

1961 US sponsored invasion of Bay of Pigs in Cuba. CIA trained and equiped Cuba exiles in Guatemala. The attack was approved by President Kennedy. It was decisively defeated by Cuba.

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In return for Kennedy's promise of not to invade Cuba, Khrushchev agreed to remove missiles.

An American U-2 spy plane shot down by Cuba, 1962. Credit: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/10/23/cuban-missile-crisis-u2-pilots/

Soviet freighters carrying missile systems sailed away from Cuba observed by American naval ships. Credit: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cuban-missile-crisis

1960 - 1969 The Swinging Sixties. Bob Dylan. Beatles. John Lennon. Woodstock Music Festival. Miniskirt of British designer Mary Quant became fashion.

1963 Assassination of JFK. The killer was shot when being transferred. The shooter died of pneumonia before his case went to trial. Investigation concludes that the both of them acted alone but could not identify any definitive evidence of consipiracy.

CBS anchorman removed his glassese to inform the nation that President Kennedy had died. Credit: CBS Youtube

1963 The Governor of Alabama blocked the entrance to the University of Alabama in a symbolic act to prevent two black students from enrolling.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963

1965 Passing of the Voting RIghts Act.

1949 Limited voting rights to Aboriginal Australians who had served in the war.

1951 Stolen generation: Aboriginal children were removed from their families and put into white homes. It was not until 1999 that they received an apology from the government.

1967 Aborigines citizenship rights were finally given.

1963 Buddhist Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in potest against the oppressive rule of South Korea.

Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c#:~:text=Th%C3%ADch%20Qu%E1%BA%A3ng%20%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c%20(Vietnamese%3A%20%5B,intersection%20on%2011%20June%201963.

1965 US arrived in South Korea to fight against North Korea.

1972 Nixon in China

1966 - 1976 Cultural Revolution in China

1967 Six-Day War: Egypt and Jordan planned to invade Israel. Israel launched a sudden offensive and captured the Sinai, West Bank, and Golan Heights.

1968 The Year of Protests: protests around world for Vietnam War, authoritarian reginmes and rigid systems of government.

1968 Prague Spring: New Czechoslovakian Communist Party leader introduced free speech and called Prague Spring reform. It was suppressed by Soviet tanks and the leader was arrested.

Prague, 1968. Credit: https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/the-end-of-the-prague-spring/

1957 - 1969 Space race

Valentina Tereshkova (first woman in space), Nikita Khrushchev, Valery Bykovsky (longest solo space flight of 5 days), Moscow, 1963. Credit: https://quotesgram.com/img/s-quotes-valentina-tereshova/11864694/