National Debt 286.3 Billion
Minimum Wage $1.00
Life Expectancy: Males 66.6 years
               Females 73.1 years




                   1960s
        This was the most
        dangerous decade.

     Fasten your seatbelts!
    It’s going to be a bumpy
The U-2 Incident
     May 1,
     1960
Aftermat
    h
Aftermat
    h
Effects of the U2 incident
1. The Paris meeting collapsed, and
there was no Test Ban Treaty.
2. There was no discussion of the
problem of Berlin - which led ultimately
to the Berlin Wall.
3. The incident was seen as a defeat
for the US - so they elected John F
Kennedy as President because he
promised to get much tougher on the
Russians.
The Cuban
Revolution
   Castro!
China




China breaks relations off with
      the Soviet Union!
            1960
first
nuclear
 bomb
 called
"59-6",
China's first intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM)
Kennedy elected
   president!

      1961
Bay of Pigs
April 17,
1961
President Kennedy receives the Brigade 2506 flag in Miami in Dec. 29, 1962
and declares: "I promise to return this flag in a free Havana."
The Berlin
  Wall
Yuri Gagarin
First man in space
Nuclear Test Ban
    August 5, 1963
Assassination of
      JFK
  November 22, 1963
Johnson being sworn in
as president.            Lee Harvey Oswald
Brezhnev
  1964
U.S.S. Pueblo
 January 23, 1968
Prague Spring
January 5 – August 20, 1968
The 1960s
The 1960s

The 1960s