Alle afleveringen

The Cuban Missile Crisis; The Seattle World's Fair

The Suez Crisis; Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign; The Ten Commandments.

Invasion of Cambodia; Kent State shootings; Student Strike; Apollo 13; COINTELPRO; release of the films M*A*S*H and Patton; development of the first microprocessors

Jonas Salk and his polio vaccine; The Army-McCarthy Hearings; The first hydrogen bomb; Brown v. Board of Education

The home front; The Detroit race riot of 1943.

The Yom Kippur War; The OPEC oil embargo; Women's rights movement; The Riggs-King tennis match

School desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas; Sputnik; American Bandstand; Althea Gibson wins Wimbledon and the US Open; West Side Story

Patty Hearst; assassination attempts on Gerald Ford by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sarah Jane Moore; Ali/Frazier III; Disco.

The election of Dwight D. Eisenhower; the Red Scare; the McCarran-Walter Act.

The New York World's Fair; The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind; "God Bless America".[

Gone With The Wind

The Berlin Wall; Mickey Mantle's and Roger Maris' pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record; the Baby Boom; Newton Minow's Wasteland Speech; the Freedom Rides; folk music

Francis Gary Powers; Student protests at Berkeley; Elvis Presley leaves the Army

Soldiers return home from Europe following World War II; the G.I. Bill; sweeping Republican victories in both the House and Senate

John F. Kennedy's Ich bin ein Berliner speech in West Berlin; Kennedy vs. George Wallace over desegregating the University of Alabama

The Soviet Union competes at its first Olympics

April 12, 1961; Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth.