The African American Civil Rights Movement covers social movements in the United States between 1955 and 1968, whose goal was to end racial segregation and discrimination against black Americans. The movement was characterized by large campaigns of resistance and civil disobedience, boycotts, and ot
In the first years of the Vietnam War, the US Army was totally convinced of the necessity of that war and was united and disciplined. As the war dragged on, morale and discipline deteriorated. The same thing happened among the American civilian population that contemplated the horrors of the first w
The so-called Missile Crisis in Cuba was a conflict between the United States, the Soviet Union and Cuba in October 1962, generated as a result of the discovery by the United States of Soviet nuclear missile bases in Cuban territory. For 4 days, Kennedy secretly met with his advisers to make a decis
On December 21, 1968, he took off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral the Apollo 8 , the first manned mission to leave Earth orbit, reach and orbit the Moon (without landing on it), and finally return to Earth. The astronauts Frank Borman , James Lovell and Bill Anders they would