In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, but the new law had no immediate effect on living conditions for blacks. A few days after the act became law, a riot broke out in the ...
On December 10, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the youngest man to receive the award; he was 35 years of age.Boycott of New Orleans by American Football League pl ...
A. Philip Randolph had planned a march on Washington, D.C. in 1941 to support demands for elimination of employment discrimination in defense industries; he called off the march when the Roosevelt adm ...
Following the American Civil War, three constitutional amendments were passed, including the 13th Amendment that ended slavery; the 14th Amendment that gave African Americans citizenship, adding their ...
As a result of the Sino-Soviet split, tensions along the Chinese–Soviet border reached their peak in 1969, and United States President Richard Nixon decided to use the conflict to shift the balance o ...
Continuing to seek ways to oust Castro following the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Kennedy and his administration experimented with various ways of covertly facilitating the overthrow of the Cuban government. ...
Khrushchev, Eisenhower and De-StalinizationIn 1953, changes in political leadership on both sides shifted the dynamic of the Cold War. Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated president that January. Duri ...
At the end of World War II, English author and journalist George Orwell used cold war, as a general term, in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb", published October 19, 1945, in the British newspaper T ...
Alternative sports, using the flying disc, began in the mid-sixties. As numbers of young people became alienated from social norms, they resisted and looked for alternatives. They would form what woul ...
A second wave of feminism in the United States and around the world gained momentum in the early 1960s. While the first wave of the early 20th century was centered on gaining suffrage and overturning ...
The transformation of Africa from colonialism to independence in what is known as the decolonisation of Africa dramatically accelerated during the decade, with 32 countries gaining independence betwee ...
The Cold War:The Vietnam War (1955–1975)1961 – Substantial (approximately 700) American advisory forces first arrive in Vietnam.1962 – By mid-1962, the number of U.S. military advisers in South Vie ...
President Iskander Mirza (Pakistan)President Ayub Khan (Pakistan)General Secretary Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)General Secretary Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet Union)Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (U ...
The United States was the most influential economic power in the world after WWII under the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.Inflation was moderate during the decade of the 1950s. The first few mont ...
