What fasions were in?..music, style, ect.
What was happening politically? Who?
Anything about the 60's that was important.
2007-07-10 09:56:12 · 9 answers · asked by Stony 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Where to begin. LOL
Beatles, Twiggy, hippies, Vietnam, Black Panthers, Hendrix, free speech movement, woodstock, long hair, free love, popularity of recreational drugs, the invention of the birth control pill, discovery that smoking was dangerous to one's health, MLK killed, Bobby Kennedy killed, John Kennedy killed, Cuban missle crisis, Goldwater, the Chicago 7, the Manson family, mini skirts, go-go dancers, first moon landing, black power, Malcolm X, miles davis gets funky, art goes pop and post modern, folk music, dylan, beginning of the culture wars
That's just a teeny bit
2007-07-10 16:37:30 · answer #1 · answered by Shanna S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Profumo Scandal
Abolishment of Censorship in the theatre
Abolishment of Capital Punishment
Mary Quant introduces the Mini-Skirt
Labour Party elected as British Government
Death of Winston Churchill
Civil Right Demonstrations in Northern Ireland leads to IRA terrorism
Te Beatles change popular music for ever
Conflict in Aden
CND Marches
Mods and Rockers clash at Brighton
Arab-Israeli Six days war
War between India and Pakistan
2007-07-10 10:19:10 · answer #2 · answered by Hobilar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Billy Joel will tell you all about it in his song, "We Didn't Start the Fire."
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock...
That's about it.
2007-07-10 10:07:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a loss of innocence would be one way to term it. we were in the Vietnam war, and a lot of my friends and family names are on the wall. there was the age of change from respect for the military to disgust which made me personally furious. there was the Kent State College Riot ( Ohio ) which caused a political uproar. the hippie movement and draft dodgers running off to Canada to save their blank blanks. there was the assassination of President Kennedy and a tremendous explosion in my home town in 1968. after graduation we hoped to make the world a better place but sadly many young men fell in Vietnam and our country lost many intelligent men. there was the civil rights movement and political changes took place because of the integration laws passed. personally dressed the same as I did in the 50's in jeans, black leather jacket and motorcycle boots. a tee shirt with a cigarette pack rolled up in a sleeve. but later in the 60's there were bell bottom style pants, tie dyed shirts, a hippy style hat, etc. many were into experimenting in drugs but was in the mid - west which was not that drug excited. the music changed from the mid -60 era because of the British Invasion and several of the USA popular singers took a back - seat. after the war went to work and got married in 1969 and started taking my place as a normal citizen in the work force, trying to have as normal a life as possible. there are still some who have both medical and mental problems from Agent Orange and other traumatic war experiences. when going back to school there were problems with younger students calling veterans all types of names but we learned to ignore them as if it wasn't for the veterans who did their duty who knows what would have happened ? hope this helps answer some of your questions. for more information suggest you talk with other veterans and local people who grew up then especially on the west and east coast because I never attended Woodstock or any other
" Hippie - type concerts or functions."
2007-07-10 10:41:15 · answer #4 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was born!
The Beatles
London was the center of all that was "happening" then
The first British Invasion of music
The Vietnam war
The Kennedy assasinations
Hippies
Haight-Ashbury
LSD
2007-07-10 10:11:22 · answer #5 · answered by ✿Donna❀ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Vietnam
2007-07-10 10:05:23 · answer #6 · answered by sm 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The civil rights movement - Dr. Martin Luther King
2007-07-10 10:00:26 · answer #7 · answered by the_hilton 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man walked on the Moon
2007-07-10 10:03:41 · answer #8 · answered by l z 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
a lot of good music''''', & people spending time together, yeah,,, times have changed.
2007-07-10 10:03:32 · answer #9 · answered by wildfire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋