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# 1960s

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Decades

1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 20th century

The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change in the United States and other parts of the world.

Many of the trends of the 1960s were due to the demographic? changes brought about by the [baby boom]? generation.

Events/trends:

- [Bay of Pigs]?
- [Civil rights movement]?
- [Cuban Missile Crisis]?
- LBJ?'s [Great Society]? program
- Hippies?
- Increase in crime
- Rise of the [baby boom]? generation to adulthood
- The [sexual revolution]?
- The rise of [radical feminism]?
- Growing popularity of religions other than Christianity, and of atheism
- The [Vietnam War]? and protests
- The growing hegemony of ultra-liberalism in universities and other institutions
- The rise of political correctness and the bashing of the Western canon
- The rise of the [drug culture]?
- Rock and roll develops, diversifies, and becomes very hip
- Sweden abandons driving on the left side.

A fascinating page, but it should be renamed somehow; I'd rather not do it myself, but perhaps [1960s in the United States]?. Of course, many of the same events were occurring in Europe at the same time. Would be interesting to learn what the European experience at that time was.

Perhaps the different continents should just have subpages off of each decades page. Then have the main page highlight the more global events such as the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution etc..

Year in Review, 1960?, 1961?, 1962?, 1963?, 1964, 1965?, 1966?, 1967?, 1968?, 1969,

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