1960's...?

Question

I am reading the book bridge to terabithia and we have to do a paer on it does anyone know what was happening in the us in the late 1960's and early-mid 70's

Answer 1

1961
President Kennedy Inaugurated
Peace Corps Founded
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Kennedy Kruschev Summit
Berlin Crisis
1962
First American in Space
Steel Prices Rolled Back
US Commitment of Vietnam deepens
Prayer Unconstitutional in Schools
Environmental Movement Launched
First Black at University of Mississippi
Cuban Missile Crisis
1963
Feminine Mystique Published
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
March on Washington
University of Alabama Integrated
Medgar Evers slain
Kennedy Visits Berlin
President Kennedy Assassinated
1964
Beatles in America
Civil Rights Act of 1964
American troop Intervene in Dominican Republic
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Warren Commission Report
Dr King Receives Nobel Prize
1964 Election
1965
War on Poverty Launched
Violence in Selma
Voting Rights Act of 65
Riots in Watts
Immigration Act of 1965
1966
Miranda Decision
National Organization of Women Founded
1967
Large Scale War Protest Held
Johnson Meets Kosygin
1968
Tet Offensive in Vietnam
McCarthy Wins 40% of new Hampshire Vote
Johnson Will Not Run of Reelection
Martin Luther King Assassinated
Robert Kennedy Killed
Violence Mars Democratic Convention
Nixon Wins Election
1969
Landing on the Moon
Woodstock
1970
Invasion of Cambodia
1973
Gerald Ford Become Vice President
1974
Richard Nixon Resigns

Answer 2

The most important thing that was happening was the Vietnam War. It went through the last part of the 60's and ended in the early 70's.

Answer 3

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade60.html you should take a look at this website.It is about 1960's and after America.
"The Civil Rights movement made great changes in society in the 1960's. The movement began peacefully, with Martin Luther King and Stokely Carmichael leading sit-ins and peaceful protests, joined by whites and Jews. Malcolm X preached about Black Nationalism. After his assassination, the Black Panthers were formed to continue his mission. In 1965, the Watts riots broke out in Los Angeles. The term "blacks" became socially acceptable, replacing "Negroes." The number of Hispanic Americans tripled during the decade and became recognized as an oppressed minority. Cesar Chavez organized Hispanics in the United Farm Workers Association. American Indians, facing unemployment rates of 50% and a life expectancy only two-thirds that of whites, began to assert themselves in the courts and in violent protests. The Presidential Commission of the Status of Women (1963) presented disturbing facts about women's place in our society. Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray and Gloria Steinem, (National Organization of Women) questioned the unequal treatment of women, gave birth to Women's Lib, and disclosed the "glass ceiling." The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended to include gender. The birth control pill became widely available and abortion for cause was legalized in Colorado in 1967. In 1967, both abortion and artificial insemination became legal in some "

You can read the rest of it from the website.

Answer 4

Sure do,I `ve been here since 1955.Mid sixties,civil rights demonstrations that tuned bad.Policemen turning firehoses
on innocent people,black and white.All they wanted were equal rights,an end to odd voting rules in the South,special tests etc.
We pulled out of Vietnam in `75.The scenes at the Embassy in Saigon were surreal.
Three events in two weeks in 1969, summed up the sixties,Woodstock,Landing on the Moon,The "Manson"Murders.
there`s more,lots more,but check these out to start with.

Answer 5

Lot's of pot smoking, Vietnam protesting, acid (LSD) dropping and a vitrtual cultural revolution started by The Beatles.

Answer 6

Let's see... the late sixties... I guess the Disco age was just starting. Hmm, hippies, those type of things were around.

Answer 7

Didn't you have history class too? If you don't know what was going on in the world in that period of time, you must have slept thru class

Answer 8

yes a little thing called the Vietnam conflict.
Women's liberation, Watergate, moon landings, and on and on and on.