An Overview of the Decade

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An Overview of the Decade The 1960’s An Overview of the Decade

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

What’s 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 Women’s Liberation

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

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

Sports & Leisure Baseball Shattered Records 1969 = year for the Underdogs Ali fights against the war

Science & Technology Space Race Organ Transplants Telstar (AT & T)

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