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1960s

The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. more...

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The Sixties has also come to refer to the complex of inter-related cultural and political events which occurred in approximately that period, in Western countries, particularly Britain, France, the United States and West Germany. Social upheaval was not limited to just these nations, reaching large scale in nations such as Japan, Mexico and Canada as well. The term is used both nostalgically by those who participated in those events, and pejoratively by those who regard the time as a period whose harmful effects are still being felt today. The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the libertine attitudes that emerged during the decade.

As with the Seventies, popular memory has conflated into the Sixties some events which did not actually occur during the period. For example, although some of the most dramatic events of the American civil rights movement occurred in the early 1960s, the movement had already begun in earnest during the 1950s. On the other hand, the rise of feminism and gay rights began in the 1960s and continued into the next few decades. Homosexual acts between consenting adults in private were legalised in England and Wales in 1967. The "Sixties" has become synonymous with all the new, exciting, radical, subversive and/or dangerous (according to one's viewpoint) events and trends of the period, which continued to develop in the 1970s, 1980s and beyond.

Bookending events

Significant events that occurred around 1960 which would influence the course of history and character of the decade, include:

The Cuban Revolution ends in 1959.; British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan delivers his Wind of Change speech in 1960.; President John Kennedy & Vice President Lyndon Johnson take office in 1961 and promote peace with the Peace Corps. Lyndon Johnson later becomes President and begins the Great Society legislating for civil rights; college attendance soars.; Substantial American forces first arrive in Vietnam in 1961.; President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.;

Significant events that marked the passing of the decade include:

U.S. President Richard Nixon is inaugurated in January 1969 & eventually promises to end the Vietnam War as "peace with honor" in 1973; price inflation soars.; Man walks on the Moon in July 1969, and Richard Nixon telephones the astronauts on the Moon, then later cuts the space program.; The Woodstock Festival, and four months later, the Altamont Free Concert in 1969.; The Kent State University shootings kill college students in 1970.; Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968.; Former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1968.;