The 1960s History

Today’s Objectives...  Create a timeline of events of the 1960s  Students will understand music in relation to history and culture in the 1960s.

Timeline  Use a piece of notebook paper  Draw a line down the left margin  Draw 10 lines and label each year from 1960 to 1969

Draw a line down this line.

Look up the following events and place them correctly on your timeline.  Woodstock  Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated  1 st Super Bowl  Vietnam War  Beatles Arrive in the U.S.  Sesame Street Begins  1 st Heart Transplant  Marilyn Monroe Dies  Neil Armstrong Walks on Moon  1 st TV Presidential Debate  Malcolm X Assassinated  1 st Man in Space  JFK Assassinated  Berlin Wall Built  Cuban Missile Crisis  John Glen Orbits the Earth

1960  1 st televised presidential debate  Lasers invented

1961  Berlin Wall built  1 st man in space—Russia

1962  Cuban Missile Crisis  John Glen orbits the earth  Marilyn Monroe dies

1963  John F. Kennedy assassinated  Assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald  Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, “I Have a Dream”

1964  Beatles come to the U.S. (British Invasion)

1965  United States enters Vietnam  Malcolm X assassinated

1966  Massive draft protests

1967  1 st Super Bowl  1 st heart transplant

1968  Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

1969  Woodstock  Sesame Street begins  Neil Armstrong is the 1 st man on the moon

Writing Assessment  Choose one:  What event had the most influence on culture/history today?  What event had the most influence on your life?