THE COLD WAR in the 1960’s * MAD Theory (Mutually Assured Destruction) * The Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) * Why the crisis happened? (Khrushchev‚ Fidel Castro & Cuba) * Was JFK a hawk or a dove? * Impacts of the crisis: flexible response & trend toward détente * Missles out of Cuba * Missles out of Germany * Can’t invade Cuba with force. THE WAR IN VIETNAM * It was America’s longest war * Some numbers: $ 150 billion ($600
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The sixties was the key to the door of success in the television industry. The television industry began to take off in the fifties‚ but never really got to its full potential. Our culture has been changed so much because of television. The 1960s were changed by the genres that made television popular‚ what the people liked about it so much‚ and how Tv became a booming buisness. Tv genres are the deciding choice of if people watch television. Westerns were a big part of the early sixties‚ but did
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the late 1960’s than music prior to this time. Rock and Roll in the 1950’s and early 1960’s was more about the sound of the music and having fun. The emergence of progressive rock changed all of that. Progressive rock was more serious with a message and meaning in its songs and lyrics. The late 1960’s was a difficult and progressive time in American society and progressive rock had a major influence on the values and beliefs of the younger generation. Rock and roll changed because the songs
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LSD and Counterculture of the 1960s LSD‚ lysergic acid diethylamide‚ is commonly regarded as one of the most powerful substances known to mankind. Its name is almost synonymous with the counterculture and the “hippy” movement of the 1960s. Though it is now listed as a Schedule I controlled substance‚ there was a time when LSD widely used and accepted without the harsh social stigma that it carries today (Jenkins). LSD‚ which is known to the younger population as acid‚ Lucy‚ and various other colloquial
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The 1960’s The 1960’s was a decade of radical change in the United States of America in both social and political aspects of life . Starting with the 1960 election of the youngest presidential candidate to take office through the largest gathering of rock n roll concert goers ever to an event called Woodstock. Sandwiched in between these 2 historic events were equally important life changing and world changing events that would make life for the average everyday Americans different from the
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and one for blacks‚ was overturned in the case of Brown v. Board of Education‚ creating integrated schools (894). Although the Supreme Court ruled that official school segregation was unconstitutional‚ blacks still faced many discriminatory laws and attitudes‚ especially in the South. At the beginning of the 1960s‚ the goal of the Civil Rights Movement‚ led by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ was to end legal segregation and to integrate society. His strategy to achieve these goals was non-violent protest
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they faced throughout the state. In the 1960s‚ the Watts Riots broke out sparking violence throughout the city of Los Angeles and Watts neighborhood. African Americans we fed up with the housing discrimination‚ deteriorating and crowded neighborhoods‚ serious unemployment‚ police harassment‚ limited opportunities made worse by an insufficient education system‚ and increased poverty (Textbook‚ 525). As California entered the 1960s‚ the Civil Rights movement was beginning to challenge the status quo
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The 1960s saw unrest‚ antiwar dissents‚ and a social revolution. African American youth challenged taking after triumphs in the courts in regards to social liberties with road dissents driven by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and additionally the NAACP. Dr. King skillfully utilized the media to record examples of ruthlessness against peaceful African American dissidents to pull at the still‚ small voice of people in general. Activism took on effective political change when there were large gatherings
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This was established so an African American could apply for jobs or even be in public without discrimination. The civil rights movement was one of the main factors in gaining equal rights for all people. Until this movement was passed in the 1960’s‚ discrimination of African Americans was suggested. Africans Americans had to fight in wars to defend America. When they came home‚ they were treated poorly. The Civil Rights Movement helped with this problem. Racial Discrimination was not totally
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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 of LSD was an important
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