Category
page 11960 in international relations
1960 U-2 incident spy aircraft
aviation incident
Year of Africa
1960, year of the independence of 17 African countries
shoe-banging incident
claimed October 1960 incident where Nikita Khrushchev was said to have banged his shoe into the desk in the United Nations General Assembly
Soviet–Albanian split
diplomatic event between the Soviet Union and Albania
Operation Chrome Dome
military operation
Wind of Change
speech by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Independence Day
public holiday in Cyprus commemorating the independence from Britain since 1960
Cold War (1953–1962)
phase of the Cold War
Martin and Mitchell defection
Defection from America to the Soviet Union