The 1960

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The 1960s

• An Overview of the Decade

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Interesting Facts

• Population 177,830,000
• Unemployment 5.5
• Minimum Wage 1.00
• Life Expectancy M-66.6, F-73.1
• Average Salary 4,743
• Gas 0.31

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Whats Going On?

• Begins full of promise, but ends in confusion,
  anger, and despair
• The Camelot Era
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Assassinations
• Vietnam War
• Campus Radicals
• Civil Rights Movement
• Black Power
• Womens Liberation

4
Lifestyle Fashion

• Hippie Lifestyle
• Long Hair
• Mini skirt
• First lady/Celebrity Fashion
• Barbie Dolls

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Entertainment

• Summertime/Beach
• Folk Music
• Beatlemania!
• Soul/Motown
• Pop Art
• Confusion of Life portrayed in Movies
• The TV Generation

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Sports Leisure

• Baseball
• Shattered Records
• 1969 year for the Underdogs
• Ali fights against the war

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Science Technology

• Space Race
• Organ Transplants
• Telstar (AT T)