The soviets shoot down a U.S. spy plane; John Kennedy is elected president; and Chubby Checker introduces the Twist.
1961: The Russians and then the U.S. put a man into space; the Berlin wall goes up.
1962: K-Mart and Wal-Mart open; Russian warheads in Cuba bring the world to the edge of war.
1963: President Kennedy is assassinated; Dr. Martin Luther King declares, "I have a dream."
1964: President Johnson declares a "war on poverty." But he also plans the huge escalation of a much larger war to be fought half-way around the world. The Beatles "invade" the U.S.
1965: Civil disturbances over race and the Vietnam war play in increasingly larger roles in American society. President Johnson unveils his plans for the "Great Society."
1966: The Supreme Court issues its "Miranda" ruling; U.S. troop strength in southeast Asia reaches 400,000.
2007-02-28
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