1. MLK shot, 1968
Watergate scandal,1974
JFK shot, 1963
Kennedy, John F.
Johnson, Lyndon
Nixon, Richard
VIETNAM WAR,
The Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
1st man on the moon, 1969
Berlin Wall built 1961
Woodstock festival, 1969

2. 1960’s – chaos and violence at home in the US

3. Death at Kent state Protesting against the war was banned
1000 students defied the ban. 4 students were killed, 10 wounded
”Have we come to such a state in this country that a young girl has to be shot because she disagrees deeply with the actions of her government.”
Allison Krauses` father

4. Malcolm X and Martin L. King Jr are assassinated in 1968
22nd of November, 1963 – US president, John F Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas.
Malcolm X and Martin L. King Jr are assassinated in 1968
Black inner- city ghettos erupt in violence.
Student protests. Flower power.

5. A Non Violent Ideology from the late 1960s
“Flower Power”
A Non Violent Ideology
from the late 1960s

6. Things you need to know
Hippies is a term used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the late 1960’s and the early 1970’s. It was a youth movement.
To be hip means to be “in the know” ~ “in”.
Hippie is a short word for “hip wannabes”.

7. Flower children, flower power ~ The hippies often passed out flowers, to communicate love and peaceful solutions.
Rebels ~ They tried to drop out of society by rejecting common clothes, traditions and lifestyles.

8. Characteristic Long hair and big beards (for the men)
Self-made, colourful clothing ~ As a protest against the Western consumer culture (“buy and throw”)
Free love ~ sexual orgies, threesomes ~ “Love everybody”
Vegetarians
Free drugs ~ Marijuana, LSD and magic mushrooms/ psychedelic shrooms.

10. Make love, not war!
Participated in peace movements, and demonstrations against war.
Anti – Vietnam War
The first hippies were against homosexuality, but the acceptance grew with the culture, and when “Flower Power” became a big movement, homosexuality was accepted as a sexual preference. Free Love!
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, searching for peace.

11. Sex, drugs and rock'n roll
Joni Mitchell - Woodstock

12. Woodstock ‘69 Some of the artists: Joan Baez Janis Joplin
Took place in White Lake, Town of Bethel, New York, 15, 16 and 17th of August
It was planned for only 50,000 people, but over 500,000 showed up.
“Three days of peace and music” was their slogan.
Some of the artists:
Joan Baez
Janis Joplin
Grateful Dead
The Who
Jimi Hendrix
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Melanie
Joni Mitchell

13. Joan Baez Joan Baez - We shall overcome
Born in 1941.
She played ukulele and guitar.
As a spokeswoman for non- violent resistance she has refused to pay taxes that increased during the war in Vietnam.
Performed with 5 songs at Woodstock ’69 ending with “We shall overcome”.
Quote: "My devotion to non-violent and social change formed long before
I picked up an ukulele, and will go on until I fall into the grave."

14. A little bit about Janis Joplin
Born in 1943.
Became a flower child, and a member of a group called “Big Brother and the Holding Company”
Played with drugs.
Had a great career within music.
Performed with 10 songs at Woodstock ’69, including “Piece of my Heart”.
Died of an overdose of heroin, October 4, Only 27 years old.
Janis Joplin - Piece of my heart

15. A little bit about Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall Hendrix
Born in 1942
Singer, guitarist and a songwriter.
He was against war, and wrote “Machine Gun” as a protest song against war.
Performed with 16 songs, ending with “Hey Joe”.
He died of drugs, in 1970.
Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe

16. Love, peace and rock 'n roll

17. MLK shot, 1968
Watergate scandal,1974
JFK shot, 1963
Kennedy, John F.
Johnson, Lyndon
Nixon, Richard
VIETNAM WAR,
The Cold War
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
1st man on the moon, 1969
Woodstock festival, 1969

18. Nixon was a Republican
He managed to bring the American soldiers who fought in Vietnam back home.
He also managed to slow down the nuclear arms race by signing the Stragegic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) with the Russians (But in the war between Israel and the Arab countries, the USA sent weapons to Israel while the Soviet sent weapons to the Arab countries)

19. THE WATERGATE SCANDAL
June 17, 1972, someone broke into the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel
Five men were arrested for the break-in. They had already broken in three weeks earlier, but returned to “finish off” their work, to bug the offices of the Democrats.
Nixon was suspected. He had a tape-recording system in the Oval Office and taped all the conversations of the Democrats.
When the investigators asked for Nixon to hand the tapes over to them, he refused

20. This case was taken to the Supreme court, and Nixon again refused to give the judges the tapes that recorded all verbal action in his office.
It became more and more clear to the United States that Nixon was hiding the fact that his men had broken into the building to try and sabotage George McGovern and the Democrats in the 1972 election.
The House of Representatives voted to impeach the president in July 1974.
Nixon resigned as president in 1974 to avoid imprisonment.

21. (Nuclear Force Treaty). Both countries agree that within
Reagan, Ronald
Ford, Gerald
Carter, Jimmy
Bush, George H.W.
The Cold War
The Gulf War
1991
Then in 1987, M.G. and Ronald
Reagan sign the INF
(Nuclear Force Treaty).
Both countries agree that within
3 years they would destroy all
their land-based
medium and shorter range
nuclear missiles
In 1991, the COLD WAR is over
In May 1988, M.G. begins to withdraw
Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
The following year the communist
political systems imposed by Stalin
after WWII collapses all over central
and eastern Europe.
M.G. the new leader of Russia
wants to reduce the arm race
because it costs a lot of money
and cripples the Soviet
Union’s economy
The Soviet refuses to
renew the SALT
agreement
Jimmy Carter calls
the Soviet
”the Evil Empire”
Cold War tensions
are renewed
when
Russia imposes a
communist regime
in Afghanistan to
restaure order
in 1979
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
Reagan boycotts trade
with Russia
The USA increases its
production of nuclear missiles.
Then a miracle happens.
His name is…
Nuclear Force Treaty (INF)
Signed in 1987