The Troubles (TRIH eps 697-700)
1968–1972 · Resource
A four-part series on how the Troubles began: a murder in Belfast, the brink of civil war in 1969, the return of the IRA, and Bloody Sunday in Derry in January 1972 — with the fall of Stormont that followed.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1968
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- The Beatles (1960)