1960: The Eastern World

In the Eastern World, Rome was certainly coming to it's own. It was the first televised Olympics, and after dictators such as Mussolini, Rome was ready for the games.

Television, drugs, and sponsorship money were just breaking onto the scene, as well as the cold war was well underway. Although Germany competed as a unified team, the Berlin Wall was erected in the months following the Games.







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Soviet tanks thunder into Prague in August 1968 to crush the short-lived Prague spring of fledgling democracy in Czechoslovakia. With over 600 000 troops occupying the country, the Czechs and Slovaks are powerless. One student, Jan Palach, burns himself to death in protest.

The Dutch government takes the initiative of submitting a draft paper advocating the revision of the Treaties of Rome and Paris through a convention setting up a single Council for the Communities and a European High Commission (fusion of the executives). The European Parliament and the two Commissions are consulted on this draft. The merger of the executives is not proceeded with at this point because of divergences between Member States on the scope of the reform.

source: http://europa.eu/about-eu/eu-history/1960-1969/index_en.htm