The 1960s in the USA

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The 1960s in the USA

• How swinging was the sixties?

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The 1960s

• The 1960s is often described as the Swinging
  Sixties a time when lots of people had fun!
• Many changes occurred to the way people lived
  their lives.
• The lives of young people were particularly
  affected.
• Fashion and music changed a lot in the 1960s.
• Peoples behaviour, attitudes, lifestyles and
  rights also began to change.
• Countries like the USA and the UK were greatly
  affected by the changes of the 1960s

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Music

• Pop music became truly popular in the 1960s.
• Many news bands emerged and they sang songs about
  issues that hadnt really been sung about before.
• They are also inspired new fashions and new
  hairstyles.

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Fashion
Clothes and hairstyles changed. Miniskirts,
brightly coloured dresses and knee-high boots
all became popular. For the first time, Young
people didnt have to dress the same way as
their parents.
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Hippies different clothes, different hair,
different lifestyle!
Many young people in the USA became Hippies.
Being a hippie was about rejecting traditional
values and lifestyles. Many hippies (men and
women) had long hair. Many hippies experimented
with drugs and lived communally.
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Black Americans in the 1960s

• Many Black Americans were part of the Civil
  Rights movement during the 1960s.
• They wanted to achieve equal rights for Black
  Americans.
• Many laws were changed to achieve equality
  however in some places in the USA tension between
  the races continued.

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Women in the 1960s

• More and more women in the 1960s were being
  educated at universities and more were beginning
  careers.
• A womens protest movement began in the 1960s
  asking for equal rights for women.

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Problems for the Swinging Sixties

• The 1960s was a period of great changes however
  some of these changes were less positive than
  others. Some people began to experiment more with
  drugs and sex and this made other people in
  society very concerned.

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War and discovery

• Two others issues that dominated the USA during
  the 1960s were the Vietnam war and Space
  exploration.