1960's

By Jansencole

  • worlds first nuclear powered ship

    worlds first nuclear powered ship
    worlds first nuclear powered ship

  • jfk is president

    jfk is president
    John F. Kennedy becomes the youngest man to be elected president of the United States.

  • first man in space

    first man in space
    Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was first man in space

  • Berlin wall was built

    Berlin wall was built
    East German authorities begin building a wall to permanently close off access to the West.

  • cuban missle crisis

    cuban missle crisis
    13-day political standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba

  • Jfk assassinated

    Jfk assassinated
    John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas.

  • Us sends troops to Vietnam

    Us sends troops to Vietnam
    President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he has ordered an increase in U.S. military forces in Vietnam.

  • H bomb created

    H bomb created
    June 17, 1967, China successfully exploded its first hydrogen bomb in western China

  • Martan luther King dies

    Martan luther King dies
    Shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He died at the age of 39

  • Neil Armstrong first man on Moon

    Neil Armstrong first man on Moon
    Neil Armstrong walks on the moon