This book describes the world, national, and cultural developments of the 1960s.

Includes chronology. Includes glossary.

Welcome to the 1960s - U.S. spy plane shot down - JFK is elected president - First human in space - Bay of Pigs invasion - U.S. troops go to Vietnam - The "Rat Pack" entertains America - The Cuban Missile Crisis - JFK is assassinated - President's assassin is murdered - The British invasion of rock music - Civil rights movement succeeds - Tragedy in the space race - Six-day War rocks the Middle East - Boxing champ fights controversy - The Tet Offensive shocks Americans - Famous leaders assassinated - Soviet tanks crush the Prague Spring - Here come the hippies - Humans set foot on the moon - Looking ahead.