1. 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

2. The U-2 Incident
May 1,
1960

8. Aftermat
h

9. Aftermat
h

11. 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.

12. The Cuban
Revolution
Castro!

18. China
China breaks relations off with
the Soviet Union!
1960

19. first
nuclear
bomb
called
"59-6",

20. China's first intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM)

22. Kennedy elected
president!
1961

23. Bay of Pigs

24. April 17,
1961

25. 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."

27. The Berlin
Wall

32. Yuri Gagarin
First man in space

34. Nuclear Test Ban
August 5, 1963

35. Assassination of
JFK
November 22, 1963

37. Johnson being sworn in
as president. Lee Harvey Oswald

38. Brezhnev
1964

40. U.S.S. Pueblo
January 23, 1968

43. Prague Spring
January 5 – August 20, 1968