thoughts and feelings of many but helped shape how they responded to these changes and conflicts. During each decade popular culture played a significant part in motivating large numbers of people to act for and achieve change. Popular culture in the 1960’s‚ e.g. Sex‚ Drugs‚ Rock and Roll‚ helps historians understand how changes reflected and influenced the thoughts of that time. Youths began to think that taking drugs and having sex was a natural and ‘trendy’ thing to carry out. The decade saw major
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I chose to interview my step mother’s grandparents for my 1960s interview paper. I interviewed them Saturday‚ February 13 at their home in Zanesville‚ Ohio. Her grandfather’s name in Andy and her grandmother’s name is Karen. In 1960‚ they were both 19 years old. I chose them for this interview because they were alive and well during the 60s and because I believe the 60s were a very impactful time period for them. The most horrific time of the 60s for them was when Russia was going to bring missiles
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The 1960’s were‚ in my opinion the most influential decade in the history of the world. Some people went from being preppy‚ well-kept human beings to turning into long-haired‚ earth- loving and careless people. When the citizens of today look back at the ‘60s‚ they think of one of the happiest decades their generation has ever seen if not the happiest they’ve ever went through. The “hippies” stressed that everybody be happy‚ calm and find peace through love and tolerance. This means that everybody
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Has the American dream changed from what it used to be in the 1960’s? In the 1960’s the American dream was gaining equal rights for women and people of minority races. During that time Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King jr. gave a speech simply stating that people who have been neglected rights that were clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence saying‚ "that all men are created equal..." The very act of taking away rights from men of color and women in general goes against that declaration
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The 1960’s were years full of change; nations were still recovering from WWII and new national identities were being formed. Canada was no different. Following WWII‚ the country experienced “fifteen years of deceptive calm‚” so the sudden‚ forceful revolution within Québec shocked the country as well as the province itself. The revolution shook the foundations of nationalism‚ and strained the relationship between French Canada and English Canada more than ever before. During this period‚ extremist
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many differences to the present. A few very popular fashion items in the 60’s such as baby doll dresses‚ miniskirts‚ and hippie dresses are still very popular today. There are many fashion items that are not so popular‚ one of these are smocks. The 1960’s put forth the emerge of unisex clothing such as denim jeans‚ which is worn by both male and female and is still very popular today. As we see fashion over time stays the same obviously making some small changes and this trend will probably continue
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The Space Race 1960’s‚ It was an important part of the Cold War.The Soviet Union did whatever it took to tell the U.S. that they were better. They decided to become the first people to step on the moon. The U.S. found out and went to work on it right away‚ but the movie studios? Yep‚ the U.S. was trying to claim that they were the first ones on the moon.The Soviet Union on the other hand was actually trying‚ but failed. They broadcasted the “moon landings” all across the world‚ which made the Soviet
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LSD and Politics in the 1960’s Joseph Archer The 1960’s: A Global Counter Cultural Movement Fall 2014 Lysergic acid diethylamide‚ more commonly known as LSD or acid is a powerful hallucinogenic drug that fascinated a generation of Americans during the 1960’s. LSD was first discovered by Albert Hofmann accidently in 1938 while he was looking for a blood stimulant. In 1943 Hofmann would discover the psychedelic effects of the drug by accidentally consuming some in his lab. While the discovery
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The Stormy Sixties; 1960 – 1968 The Stormy Sixties bean with heightened Cold War tensions that led to the full-scale eruption of the Vietnam War. President Kennedy’s youthful energy brought about a new age of American politics that outlived the assassin’s bullet and into President Johnson’s administration. From bus boycotts and sit-ins to a March on Washington‚ the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum in the 1960s and inspired all of America to fight for equal rights. The major concern
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Four young Englishmen added a word to the worlds vocabulary in the 1960s. A word that became synonymous with the 1960s‚ especially with the music of that time that word was of course the Beatles the Beatles became the most famous popular music group of the twentieth century and have held the loyalty of many fans into the present century The Beatles were popular in Liverpool England and in Hamburg Germany before they came to America on tour and became world famous Liverpool and Hamburg loved the four
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