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Exploring the 1960's
 

 

 

 

General Areas of Interest pertaining to the 1960's
Culture Economic Concerns Education Science/Technology
  • Fashion

  • Careers

  • Decade of Hippies

  • Gangs

  • Child Abuse

  • Statistics: wages & salaries, home costs, food, cars, population

 
  • Space Race

  • Man on the Moon

Art & Entertainment People of the 1960's Events International Relations
  • 1960's Music
  • Beatlemania

 

  • Martin Luther King
  • J.F. Kennedy
  • Malcolm X
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Dream Match
  • Kennedy Assassination
  • Race Riots
  • Olympics
  • Viet Nam
 

Use Encyclopedia.com to look for background information on terms
(poverty, gangs, peer groups,  homelessness, child abuse

S. E. Hinton
http://www.sehinton.com/  |  http://www.carr.org/mae/hinton/hint-web.htm

 

   
Culture
Cars from Yesterday
Fashion
Hippies

About.com: 1960
Urban Decay of the 1960's

Gang History
A Brief History - Gangs
Gang Violence in America

General Information not necessarily the 1960's:
History of Child Abuse

Child Maltreatment
Peer Acceptance

More Peer Acceptance

Homeless in America (book exerpts)

http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10001665/sp--B/1960_Corvette.htm

Picture Credit:  Google Images

   

ECONOMICS IN THE 1960s   

The People's History: 1960

   
EDUCATION

American Cultural History
America 1960-1969: Education

EVENTS
 
General 1960's Information
Olympics-Winter   Olympics-Summer
Woodstock
Freedom Rides
Race Riots
The Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Timeline
   
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

First Man on the Moon
NASA

Picture Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/missions/past/index.html

   
ART & ENTERTAINMENT

1960's Music
Music in the 1960s
Beatles
I
mpact of the Beatles
 

PEOPLE OF THE 1930s

John F. Kennedy
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
 

   
International Relationships

Viet Nam War
Cold War


 

Vietnam War - Combat Chronicles, Photographs of the Vietnam War Part 1 - Operation Wahiawa, At left, UH-1D helicopters airlift members of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry from a rubber plantation during Operation Wahiawa, a search-and-destroy mission by the 25th Infantry Division northeast of Cu Chi, Vietnam, in May 1966.

Photo Credit:  http://www.vietnamwar.com/combatchronicles1.htm