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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.
- The Great Society
- The War in Vietnam
- The Fight For Civil Rights
- The Radical ’60s
- The Death of The 1960s
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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. But the New Frontier ran into problems right away: The Democrats’ Congressional majority depended on a...
Unfortunately, the War on Poverty was expensive–too expensive, especially as the war in Vietnam became the government’s top priority. There was simply not enough money to pay for the War on Poverty and the Vietnam War. Conflict in Southeast Asia had been going on since the 1950s, and President Johnson had inherited a substantial American commitment...
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. Their movement spread: Hundreds of demonstrators went back to that lunch counter every day, and tens of thousands clogged segregated restaurants and shops acr...
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. Student activists grew more radical. They took over college campuses, organized massive antiwar demonstrations and occupied parks and other public places. Some even made bombs and set campus...
The optimistic ‘60s went sour in 1968. That year, the brutal North Vietnamese Tet Offensive convinced many people that the Vietnam War would be impossible to win. The Democratic Party split, and at the end of March, Johnson went on television to announce that he was ending his reelection campaign. (Richard Nixon, chief spokesman for the silent majo...
Learn about the major events, trends and movements that shaped the 1960s in the United States, from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations to the civil rights and anti-war protests. Explore the photos, videos and articles that capture the decade's political, social and cultural transformations.
Explore the history of the 1960s, one of the most turbulent and divisive decades in world history. Learn about the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the antiwar protests, the countercultural movements, the political assassinations and more.
- Television Comes of Age. TV's first interracial kiss was... Pratfalls, and songs and sketches oh my! 5 surprising things that 1960s TV changed. The Smothers Brothers: (Un)censored.
- Cold War: World on the Brink. The Cold War: 5 things you might not know. East versus West, capitalism versus communism: the Cold War lasted from the end of World War II until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
- JFK Assassination. 5 things you might not know about JFK's assassination. JFK's Secret Service agent shares guilt. One JFK conspiracy theory that could be true.
- The War in Vietnam. The Vietnam War: 5 things you might not know. Katie McLaughlin, CNN. The Vietnam War began in the decade before, but the conflict, and especially U.S. involvement, escalated in the 1960s.
Learn about the key events, trends, and achievements of the 1960s decade in the U.S. and the world. From the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War to the first moon landing and the civil rights movement, explore the history of the sixties with facts, photos, and videos.
Mar 9, 2010 · " 'The Sixties,' for conservatives, were an explosion of puerile irresponsibility and fashionable rebellion, the wellspring of today's ubiquitous identity politics,...
Watch, read and chat about the '60s, a time of social, political and cultural upheaval. Discover the stories of freedom protests, atom bombs, flower power, war, and more with PBS programs and resources.
