The 1960s

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The 1960s

• Counterculture- In opposition to mainstream
  culture

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The 1960s

• The 1960s is often described as the Swinging
  Sixties a time when lots of people had fun!
• A time of significant social change

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Music

• Pop music became truly popular in the 1960s
• New bands
• New issues in songs
• Inspired new fashions and new hairstyles.

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The British Invasion

• The Beatles
• The Rolling Stones
• The Who
• The Kinks
• The Animals
• The Hollies
• The Zombies
• The Troggs

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From clean cut to Hippies
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Fashion
Miniskirts brightly coloured dresses
knee-high Boots Not like Mom Dad
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Hippies different clothes, different hair,
different lifestyle!

• Rejecting traditional values and lifestyles
• Long hair
• Drugs
• Communes

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Black Americans in the 1960s

• Civil Rights Movement
• Equal rights for Black Americans
• Laws changed
• Attitudes?

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Civil Rights Martin Luther King

• Assassinated on March 29th, 1968
• Shot by escaped-convict James
• Earl Ray, who was captured in London, England,
  two months later,
• trying to travel on a fake Canadian passport to
  Rhodesia
• His death sparked riots in more than 100 cities
  nationwide
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPalIIpfhw_g (216)
  Martin Luther King Assination
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vC7IJ7npTYrU
  (748) Malcolm X on Front Page Challenge, 1965
  CBC Archives

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John F. Kennedy

• -US President from 1961-63
• -Youngest elected to the office at 43
• -Only Catholic President
• -First Irish American president
• -Won the Pulitzer Prize
• -Assassinated on November 22, 1963
• Liberal views on social issues

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v6DbhTwahqPg (644)
JFKs 10 best speeches
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The Pill
-Released in 1957 -Prevents the Egg from being
fertilized by the sperm -An injection of hormones
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Sex marriage childrenWomen started having
more freedomCanadian population decreases
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Women in the 1960s

• Increase enrollment in Universities
• Increase women with careers.
• A womens protest movement began in the 1960s
  asking for equal rights for women.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vcYbs_O_iMfU Aretha
  Frankin- Respect (222)

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Problems for the Swinging Sixties

• Generational tension around DRUGS, SEX ROCK N
  ROLL

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War and discovery

• Two others issues that dominated the USA (
  influenced Canada) during the 1960s were the
  Vietnam war and Space race.

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vRMINSD7MmT4
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-French withdraw-North establishes Communist
gov.-USA scared supports South
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Draft Dodgers
-20 000 30 000 Draft Dodgers came to
Canada -Accepted as immigrants
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1963- Out with Diefenbaker, in with Pearson- A
left shift
And in Canada
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Lester B Pearson

• His minority government introduced
• universal health care
• student loans
• Canada Pension Plan
• The new Canadian flag
• The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and
  Biculturalism

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He also brought in Trudeau, Turner and Chretien
as cabinet ministers