A Review of the 1960's by Samantha Page https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz Samantha Page en-us 2017-05-22 02:51:32 UTC 2017-05-22 03:25:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Doubleheart.png 1960 fier_pages https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173043861 (February 1) Four white college students in Greensboro, North Carolina stage a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter to protest it's inequality. Inspired by this, seventy thousand students staged sit-in's across the nation for the next eight months.]]> 2017-05-22 02:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173043861 1960 fier_pages https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173044483 (May 1) An American U-2 reconnaissance plane is shot down by Soviet forces, U.S. pilot Gary Powers is captured, and the Paris summit conference is cancelled. (August 19) Powers is sentenced by the Soviet Union to ten years in prison for espionage. (February 10, 1962) Powers is exchanged for a captured Soviet spy in Berlin.]]> 2017-05-22 03:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173044483 1960 fier_pages https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173044788 (July 4) The fifty star flag of the United States that is used today is debuted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, honoring the admission of Hawaii into the union in 1959.]]> 2017-05-22 03:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173044788 1960 fier_pages https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173044915 (November 8) Senator John F. Kennedy is elected to succeed Eisenhower as the 35th President of the United States. The 1960 campaign for president had seen the first televised debate in US history.

]]> 2017-05-22 03:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173044915 1961 fier_pages https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173045204 (January 3) The U.S. Government severs diplomatic and consular relations with the Cuban government due to disputes over naturalization of US businesses in Cuba.

]]> 2017-05-22 03:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173045204 1961 fier_pages https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173045425 (April 17) The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, an attempt by Cuban exiles under the direction of the United States government to overthrow the regime of Fidel Castro, fails.]]> 2017-05-22 03:13:07 UTC https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173045425 1961 fier_pages https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173045827 (May 5) The first U.S. manned sub-orbital space flight is completed when Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr. is launched 116.5 miles above the earth from Cape Canaveral, Florida inside a Mercury capsule. (May 25) President Kennedy announces his intention to place a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

]]> 2017-05-22 03:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173045827 1961 fier_pages https://padlet.com/fier_pages/s5iedwhmxnuz/wish/173046056 (August 13) Construction of the Berlin Wall by the Soviet bloc begins, segregating Berlin. The wall would last for twenty-eight years until torn down by rebels.

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