Table of Contents
People
Alfred Hitchcock
Andy Warhol
Audrey Hepburn
Bob Dylan
Charles de Gaulle
Fidel Castro
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
John F. Kennedy
Julie Andrews
Lyndon B. Johnson
Mao Zedong
Mark Spitz
Martin Luther King Jr.
Neil Armstrong
Nikita Khrushchev
Rachel Carson
Richard Nixon
Robert F. Kennedy
Sean Connery
Stanley Kubrick
Historical Events
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Capitalism
Class struggle
Cold War
Communism
Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cultural Revolution (China)
Decolonization
Draft
Green Revolution
Gulf of Tonkin incident
JFK Assassination
Liberalism
Manson Murders
Middle class
Military
Soviet Union
Stonewall Riots
Superpowers
The Troubles (Ireland)
Vietnam War
Violence
Pop Culture (music, movies, etc)
Altamont Speedway Free Concert
The Beach Boys
Beatlemania
The Beatles
British Invasion
“Dr. Strangelove”
Drugs
Flamboyance
“The Flintstones”
Folk music
Hippies
Jefferson Airplane
Lava lamps
“Mary Poppins”
Motown
Muscle cars
Pop art
Psychedelic music
The Rolling Stones
Simon and Garfunkel
Star Trek
Summer of Love
Surf music
Swinging Sixties
Tie-dye
“The Twilight Zone”
The Twist (a dance)
Woodstock Music Festival
Inventions/Innovations
Arpanet
Big Bang cosmic background radiation discovered
Birth-control pill
Invention of integrated circuit chips
Peace Corps
Space Race
Alan Shepard
Apollo 11
Buzz Aldrin
John Glenn
Michael Collins
Neil Armstrong
Space Race
Spaceflight
Valentina Tereshkova
Yuri Gagarin
Civil Rights
Activists
Black Panthers
Black Power movement
Civil disobedience
Civil Rights Movement
“I Have a Dream” speech
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK assassination
Sit-in
Social reforms
Social revolution
Women’s Rights Movement
Activists
Betty Friedan
Birth-control pill
“The Feminine Mystique”
Gloria Steinem
National Organization for Women
Second-wave feminism
Sexual revolution
Social reforms
Social revolution
Women’s Liberation
Anti-War Movement
Activists
Anti-war movement
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
Civil disobedience
Conscientious objector
Conscription
Counterculture
Draft dodger
Nonviolent protests
Peace signs
Sexual revolution
Silent majority
Social reforms
Social revolution
Student protests
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Underground newspapers
Veterans
Vietnam War