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The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "' 60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. [1] While the achievements of humans being launched into space , orbiting Earth , and walking on the Moon extended exploration, the Sixties are known as the " countercultural decade ...
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- The Great Society. During his presidential campaign in 1960, John F. Kennedy had promised the most ambitious domestic agenda since the New Deal: the “New Frontier,” a package of laws and reforms that sought to eliminate injustice and inequality in the United States.
- The War in Vietnam. Unfortunately, the War on Poverty was expensive–too expensive, especially as the war in Vietnam became the government’s top priority.
- The Fight for Civil Rights. The struggle for civil rights had defined the ‘60s ever since four black students sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in February 1960 and refused to leave.
- The Radical ’60s. Just as black power became the new focus of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, other groups were growing similarly impatient with incremental reforms.
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The 1960s was one of the most tumultuous and divisive decades in world history. The era was marked by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and antiwar protests, countercultural movements,...
