| A | B |
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| Charles de Gaulle | returns to power as leader of France |
| California baseball | Brooklyn Dodgers move to LA and NY Giants move to San Francisco |
| Starkweather homicide | "thriller killer" on the lose and kills 11-15 people |
| Children of Thalidomide | pregnant women taking a medicine to help with morning sickness give birth to children with deformities |
| Buddy Holly | popular singer of songs like Peggy Sue |
| Ben Hur | movie starring Chalrton Heston, won 11 Oscars |
| Space Monkey | U.S. sends monkey into space as a precursor to man going into space |
| Mafia | As attorney general, RFK cracks down on the mafia |
| Hula Hoops | becomes a national fad to spin it around your waist |
| Fidel Castro | comes to power in Cuba when he overthrows Batista |
| Edsel is a no-go | Ford makes a new car and it is not successful |
| U2 | U.S. spy plane flying over the Soviet Union that is shot down. |
| Syngman Rhee | President of South Korea |
| Payola | scandal where disc jockeys were exposed for taking bribes to play certain music |
| Kennedy | JFK is elected president in 1960, defeating Richard Nixon |
| Chubby Checker | singer of The Twist and Limbo Rock |
| Psycho | thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Memorable shower scene where woman is stabbed to death. |
| Belgians in the Congo | Belgian Congo gains independence from Belgium |
| Ernest Hemingway | famous author commits suicide |
| Adolf Eichmann | former Nazi leader is tried, convicted, and executed for war crimes. |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Award-winning science fiction book by Robert Heinlein. |
| Bob Dylan | folk-singer/songwriter that captured the spirit of the times. |
| Berlin | The Soviets erected the Berlin Wall dividing the city of Berlin into a Russian controlled part and a U.S./British/French controlled part |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | 1500 Cuban exiles attacked Bay of Pigs to overthrow Castro |
| Lawrence of Arabia | Movie about World War I in Middle East. Won 7 Academy Awards. |
| British Beatlemania | British rock group the Beatles took over the music scene with hit records. |
| Ole Miss | U.S. Marshals escorted the first black man to enroll in the University of Mississippi, James Meredith. |
| John Glenn | In 1962, he wa the first American to orbit the Earth. |
| Liston beath Patterson | Sonny Liston defeated Heavyweight Champion, Floyd Patterson to gain the title. |
| Pope Paul | Leader of the Catholic Church from 1963-1978. Succeeded Pope John. |
| Malcom X | Black Muslim leader. Influential in the Civil Rights movement. Assasinated in 1965. |
| British Politician Sex | Married, British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo had an affair with a showgirl. |
| JFK Blown Away | President that was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas. |
| Birth Control | The Pill was widely used for the first time. |
| Ho Chi-Minh | Leader of the Communist North Vietnamese |
| Richard Nixon back again | President elected in 1968 |
| Moon Shot | Neil Armstrong is the first man to land on the moon in 1969 |
| Woodstock | Rock concert in which 600,000 people were in attendance |
| Watergate | Scandal under the Nixon administration. Resulted in Nixon's resignation. |
| Punk Rock | The Ramone and The Sex Pistols were the first groups to come out of this music genre. |
| Begin | Prime Minister of Israel |
| Reagan | This former actor becomes President of the United States |
| Palestine | The people protested unfair treatment by the Israelis. |
| Terror on the Airlines | Numerous airline hijackings were in the news |
| Ayatolla's in Iran | The Shah of Iran is overthrown. U.S. hostages are taken. |
| Russians in Afghanistan | Invasion of Afghanistan to protect Communist Ideals. The U.S. supported Afghan rebels. |
| Wheel of Fortune | This TV show became popular. |
| Sally Ride | First American woman in space in 1983 |
| Heavy Metal Suicide | Lawsuits against metal groups Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest suggested they encouraged suicides. |
| Foreign Debts | Caused an increase in inflation and a burden on American taxpayers. |
| Homeless Vets | Veterans of Vietnam became homeless because of drug addiction or alcoholism. |
| AIDS | This disease started to spread throughout the world. |
| Crack | Potent form of cocaine rapidly spreads in the U.S. |
| Bernie Goetz | This man shot five black men on a NY Subway because they were mugging him for $5. |
| Hypodermics on the Shore | News reports showed Hypodermic needles washed up on the New Jersey shoreline. |
| China's Under Martial Law | Many were killed and China went under Martial Law after protesters marched on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. |
| Rock and Roller Cola Wars | Pepsi and Coke battle for supremacy in the marketplace, hiring famous spokespeople. |
