* 1960 – Cold War: in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.

Dr. Strangelove ( 1964 ) was a satirical comedy about Cold War paranoia, while The Apartment ( 1960 ), Alfie ( 1966 ) and The Graduate ( 1967 ) featured sexual themes in a way that would have been impossible only a few years previously.

Lengthy Cold War-associated civil conflicts that ground to a halt include the wars of Guatemala ( 1960 – 1996 ), El Salvador ( 1979 – 1991 ) and Nicaragua ( 1970 – 1990 ).

* 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

* 1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe

The 1960 symposium at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory laid the groundwork for the field of chronobiology.

* In High Places ( 1960 ) – Cold War Era politics in North America

His latter three-term presidency ( August 1948 to April 1960 ) remains controversial, affected by Cold War tensions on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere.

In 1960, as Cold War tensions were near their peak following the Sputnik crisis and amidst talk of a widening " missile gap " between the U. S. and the Soviets, Kahn published On Thermonuclear War, the title of which clearly alluded to the classic 19th-century treatise on military strategy, On War, by German military strategist Carl von Clausewitz.

Mitford wrote sequels to the novel, Love in a Cold Climate ( 1949 ) and Don't Tell Alfred ( 1960 ).

* 1960: The Blues-Hot and Cold ( Verve MG V-8385 )

The 1960 U-2 incident occurred during the Cold War on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and during the leadership of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down over the airspace of the Soviet Union.

The Sino-Soviet split ( 1960 – 1989 ) was the worsening of political and ideological relations between the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ( USSR ) during the Cold War.

He was a nephew of novelist E. L. Voynich ( 1864 – 1960 ), whose 1897 book The Gadfly sold over a million copies and became the number one American bestseller in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

* Father Cornelius O ' Keeffe ( 1929-) The Later Days are Cold ( 1960 )

His outstanding works as director are Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( 1958 ), Elmer Gantry ( 1960 ) — for which he won an Academy Award for Best Writing ( Adapted Screenplay ) — In Cold Blood ( 1967 ) and Looking for Mr. Goodbar ( 1977 ).

* The film was among those films released at the height of the Cold War, including On the Beach ( 1959 ), Atomic War Bride ( 1960 ), and Panic in Year Zero ( 1962 ).

* 1960: Are You Hungry, Are You Cold

" Ballad of a Soldier overcame the Cold War barrier and premiered in the United States in 1960 at the San Francisco International Film Festival in San Francisco, California.

He was the first American to sing the title role of Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War in 1960.

Lankov, Andrei N., The Demise of Non-Communist Parties in North Korea ( 1945 – 1960 ), published in Journal of Cold War Studies 2001: 1, p. 103-125.

Carter began touring with Charles in 1960, then making a recording of duets with him in 1961, including the R & B-chart-topping " Baby, It's Cold Outside ," which brought her a measure of popular recognition.

Between 1950 and 1960, van Vogt produced collections, notable fixups such as: The Mixed Men ( 1952 ) and The War Against the Rull ( 1959 ), and the two " Clane " novels, Empire of the Atom ( 1957 ) and The Wizard of Linn ( 1962 ), which were inspired ( like Asimov's Foundation series ) by the fall of the Roman Empire, specifically Claudius.

The first major meetings of the national left-wing campus group Students for a Democratic Society took place in Ann Arbor in 1960 ; in 1965, the city was home to the first U. S. teach-in against the Vietnam War.

* 1960 – Henri Guisan, Swiss army officer, General of the Swiss Army during World War II ( b. 1874 )

After the end of the Second World War, the British Army was significantly reduced in size, although National Service continued until 1960.

Lynn Montross, writing on that topic in War Through the Ages ( 1960 ), said ; " This outcome ... may be explained by the fact that Jomini produced a system of war, Clausewitz a philosophy.

American service personnel in their teens or early twenties during the Second World War would be in prime car-buying age by 1960, if only to find an economical small second car for their growing family needs.

The Guatemalan Civil War ( 1960 – 96 ) involved the government, right-wing paramilitary organizations, and left-wing insurgents.

* 1960 – Algerian War: Some units of European volunteers in Algiers stage an insurrection known as the " barricades week ", during which they seize government buildings and clash with local police.

* 5 April 1960 – Oberländer resigns as Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims.

* 27 October 1960 – Hans-Joachim von Merkatz ( CDU ) becomes Minister of Displaced Persons, Refugees, and War Victims.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

After World War II, Mauritania, along with the rest of French West Africa, was involved in a series of reforms of the French colonial system, culminating in independence in 1960.

After achieving independence in 1960 the Faidem's ( Force Aerienne Islamique de Mauritanie ) was supplied equipment by France, such as C-47s and MH. 1521 Broussards, which was later replaced by the Britten-Norman BN-2A Defender between 1976 – 78 and had operated as a transport and observation squadron in the Western Sahara War.

The narrative tone of television espionage ranged from the drama of Danger Man ( 1960 – 68 ) to the sardonicism of The Man from U. N. C. L. E ( 1964 – 68 ) and the flippancy of I Spy ( 1965 – 68 ) until the exaggeration, akin to that of William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim before the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), degenerated to the parody of Get Smart ( 1965 – 70 ).

Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War ( 1960 ), Pulitzer prize ; the standard history.

After World War II, a small number of technically able sopranos, the most notable of whom were first Maria Callas ( with performances from 1952 and especially those at La Scala and Berlin in 1954 / 55 under Herbert von Karajan ) and then Dame Joan Sutherland ( with her 1959 performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1959, which were repeated in 1960 ), revived the opera in all of its original tragic glory.

In his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War he advocated a more reasoned approach to nuclear warfare and was misunderstood by some of his critics to be a nuclear war hawk.

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, well known for their generational theory, define the social generation of Boomers as the cohorts born from 1943 to 1960, who were too young to have any personal memory of World War II, but old enough to remember the postwar American High.

Erich Johann Albert Raeder ( 24 April 1876 – 6 November 1960 ) was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II.