Series
Summary
"Middle school readers will find out about the important world, national, and cultural developments of the decade 1960-1969"--Provided by publisher. Full description
- Welcome to the 1960s
- U.S. spy plane shot down
- JFK is elected president
- First human in space
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- U.S. troops go to Vietnam
- The "Rat Pack" entertains America
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- JFK is assassinated
- President's assassin is murdered
- The British invasion of rock music
- Civil Rights Movement succeeds
- Tragedy in the space race
- Six-day war rocks the Middle East
- Boxing champ fights controversy
- The Tet Offensive shocks Americans
- Famous leaders assassinated
- Soviet tanks crush the Prague Spring
- Here come the hippies
- Humans set foot on the moon
- Looking ahead.