The Swinging Sixties
60s Troubles: Wars and walls
It wasn't all miniskirts and LSD. The sixties had more than its fair share of international crises. The Iron Curtain sprang up, Vietnam sent shockwaves and Fidel Castro didn't half annoy the Americans...
60s Season: Fidel Castro
Born the son of a sugarcane farmer in 1926, Fidel Castro Ruz grew up to become one of the world's most recognisable faces at the helm of communist Cuba....
60s Season: The Berlin Wall
The 60s saw the height of the Cold War, but no where more acutely than in Berlin...
60s Season: Vietnam War
More than 58,000 U.S. soldiers died fighting a war in which their seemingly all-powerful nation suffered a humiliating defeat...
Born the son of a sugarcane farmer in 1926, Fidel Castro Ruz grew up to become one of the world's most recognisable faces at the helm of communist Cuba....
60s Season: The Berlin Wall
The 60s saw the height of the Cold War, but no where more acutely than in Berlin...
60s Season: Vietnam War
More than 58,000 U.S. soldiers died fighting a war in which their seemingly all-powerful nation suffered a humiliating defeat...
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