sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and

technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical

styles, Camelot, civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive

war in Vietnam, the anti-war protest to go along with the war, space

exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and

film and sexual freedom, and of course the great babyboomers. The sixties

also showed Communism coming into the Western hemisphere and thus

coming to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Movements towards the end to poverty,

helping the environment, and the women's rights all came to be in the

sixties. Medical breakthroughs were important in the sixties. This essay

explains the events and people of the sixties from 1960 to 1970.

One thing in the sixties was the years of the American Camelot. In

1960 a president was elected by the slimmest measure of margin since 1884,

"John Fitzgerald Kennedy is elected president by just over 100,000

votes"(Turbulent Years 23). Some say that John's father bought the election,

but the truth is unknown. This election was the first election that was on

movements, the Vietnam War and the anti-war, medical breakthroughs, the

1965. In 1964, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which

Western Hemisphere and the U.S. did not want another country to fall to

needed because of the unfairness and discrimination by sex in the work

protests came from college students. Objections to the military draft led

rebelled against the country and the war. The young people of the 1960s

murder but that verdict was later overturned.

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