Meaghan Crandall and Chris Brunscheen

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1961-1970 Meaghan Crandall and Chris Brunscheen
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Thesis Statement
The 1960's was very much a time of social
revolution. Although the political and economic
changes of the 1960's created various opinions
throughout America, the social changes, affected
by a combination of both politics and the
economy, had a greater lasting impact.
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Political Change
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Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that
  America ever came to a nuclear war, due to the
  fear and probability that The Soviet Union would
  launch the missiles that we're being assembled,
  at the U.S. from Cuba.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

• Martin Luther King Jr. is the most
  recognizable public figure for the support of the
  African American Civil Rights Movement due to his
  effective ideas such as The Montgomery Bus
  Boycott, The March on Washington, and his
  notorious I have a dream speech.

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Civil Rights

• The 1960's was a decade of a well past due
  wave of change considering civil rights, which
  were changed by the passing of The Civil Rights
  Act of 1964 and The National Voting Rights Act of
  1965.

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John F. Kennedy

• John F. Kennedy was known as one of the first
  presidents who paid incredible amounts of
  attention to minorities and their hardships like
  supporting the Civil Rights Movement and creating
  the Peace Corps.

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JFK Assasination

• On November 22, 1963, President JFK was
  assassinated by a sniper which traumatized the
  nation, yet the more intriguing aspect of the
  event is the conspiracy about the shooter.

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24th Amendment

• On January 23, 1964, the 24th Amendment
  provided an opportunity for many many Americans
  to vote because they no longer had to pay a fee.

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Domino Effect/Containment

• Theory of President Eisenhower that if certain
  nations fell to communism then others would
  follow and the United States tried to contain it
  by stopping it in Vietnam.

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Tet Offensive

• Major turning point in the highly criticized
  Vietnam War where the Vietcong carried out a
  frenzy of sneak attacks on the United States
  which were supported by communist North Vietnam.

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Berlin Wall

• Berlin Wall divided the eastern communist
  Berlin from the western Democratic Berlin which
  caused much controversy and not only split up
  Berlin, but was somewhat seen as the dividing
  line of communism in the world.

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Economic Change
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Medicare and Medicaid

• Though Medicare was run by Social Security at
  first and Medicaid by Social and Rehabilitation
  Service, they both provided medical expense
  assistance to people over the age of 65 and
  people with disabilities under the age of 65.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

• This was a huge step forward in the American
  workplace because now workers could not be denied
  jobs for ethnic reasons, along with many other
  areas that promote equality basically job
  competition will increase and be primarily based
  on working ability/skill.

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Social Change
Social
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Counterculture

• Many young people, known as hippies pulled away
  from American ways of conservatism, the
  conformity of the 1950's, and the intervention in
  Vietnam, to create an eclectic social revolution.
  

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Anti-war movement

• Not only was the Vietnam war a war fought by the
  military overseas, but it was also a war at
  home on the grounds of college campuses where
  the youth of America took advantage of their
  right of free speech, questioning its morality.

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Women's Liberation

• Not only was the Feminist Movement a fight
  against political and economic inequality between
  women and men, but it was a fight to gain rights
  for their bodies, which concerned child care,
  birth control, abortion, and rape treatment
  centers.

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The Olympic Games

• There were six Olympic games held in the 1960's,
  of which began the IOC's prohibition of
  performance enhancing drugs used by athletes in
  1967, followed by the beginning of routine
  testing of the competitors in 1968.

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Woodstock '69
Mark Hosenball, of Newsweek, stated that it
turned from a chaotic mud-fest into an epic
pageant of peace and love..

• Woodstock was one of the most well known displays
  of a combination of what was being seen in the
  social revolution not only was it a 3-day
  festival containing the best of RockRoll, but it
  was the trailing morality and disposition of the
  summer of love, the disapproval of the Vietnam
  war, and the fight for feminists.

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Concluding Statement

The 1960's was a decade full of tension with
other countries, and changes in the lives of the
minorities and of our own. The social revolution
of the 1960's overall had the greatest impact on
the country as a whole. Although the political
and economic changes of the sixties left a
lasting impact, both combined fueled the fire of
the social revolution.
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