1. Decades

2. 1950s Consumerism Move to suburbs and white flight Advertising
Cult of domesticity
Birth of rock and roll
Civil Rights
Sputnik!
McCarthyism

9. Polio ends! Jonas Salk

10. 1950s Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower

11. 1960s “High 60s” Cold War (U2 Incident, Cuban Missile Crisis) Vietnam
Counterculture
Continuation of Civil Rights Movement
Women’s Rights movement
British invasion

12. Presidents: JFK, LBJ
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13. Betty Friedan and the women’s movement
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all

14. Apollo 11 Lands

15. I Have a Dream

16. Hippies

17. Woodstock

18. British Invasion

19. American Literature Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

20. 1968! MLK assassinated RFK assassinated Altamont concert
End of the hippies?!?!

21. 1970s
Environmental Crisis
Gas Crisis
Continuation of Vietnam

22. Presidents
Nixon, Ford

23. Watergate

24. Silent Spring- Rachel Carson

25. Energy Crisis