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 The Elvis CD – for information on the beginning of the Rock N
Roll Era
 I Love Lucy on TV – for information on the new technology
and media
 The Family Picture – for information on families and culture
of the 50s
 Kemmons Wilson TIME Magazine – for information on money
and business
 President Eisenhower Ad – for information on the election
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Life in the fifties was all about the American Dream. It was after the depression.
Now parents said that their kids will have it better than them. The kids were
known as the Silent Generation because they didn’t rebel or express their
opinion. They just went with the flow of things and kept to themselves.
House with a picket fence and a
barbeque.
Two kids: Boy and Girl
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The fifties brought the new type of
music called Rock N Roll.
Elvis Presley was labeled the King of
Rock N Roll.
At the time, the parents thought some
of the moves Elvis were “inapproiate”
to the public eye.
It was a new generation where people
started being less censored.
Television started to take over the radio
so the radio started to improve by
presenting recording music, news, talk
shows, and weather.
Click the Elvis Picture to see a clip of
him playing “Heartbreak Hotel” in
1956.
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•Television made it big in the
1950s.
•Sitcoms were very popular.
•The most famous one would be
I Love Lucy.
•Another one was
The
Ed Sullivan Show which Elvis
appeared on often.
•Over 80% of households had
televisions.
TV was significant because it
was another example of how
technology keeps expanding,
people could use it to see
news updates, and it was
entertainment that has
affected generations up to
today.
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Diner Card
Running several stores in
a chain operation
Middle class was doing well
White Collar and Blue
Collar Jobs
McDonalds’ First Commercial
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Communism
a system of social organization in
which all economic and social
activity is controlled by a
totalitarian state dominated by a
single and self-perpetuating
political party.
One of the longest wars in history.
It was battle over communism.
Some countries in Asia wanted to world to become communists. America didn’t
want that so the war begun. It was battle against Communism.
This war soon became the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
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Click on the:
 The Martin Luther King picture – for information on the Civil
Rights Movement.
 Vietnam War on TV – for information on the Vietnam War
 The Beatles Poster – for information on the most popular eras
for music
 The Picture of the Hippies on the top shelf – for information
on the counterculture
 The Feminist book on the bottom shelf – for information on
the Feminist Movement and other Movements in the 1960s
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The Civil Rights Movement was huge. Although they weren’t
slaves, African Americans still were treated badly and
segregated from the whites. Then they decided to not put up
with it anymore. Martin Luther King Jr. is the leader of this
movement. He gave a speech to people telling them his dream
of blacks and whites coming together. Other important black
civil rights leaders are Malcom X and Rosa Parks. Without this
movement, who knows how blacks would be right now. There
would still be separate schools for blacks and whites. This
movement changed the world.
I thought this video was interesting because
Malcom X is actually criticizing Dr. King who most
people view as brilliant. Malcom X seemed to
have more hate on whites than Dr. King.
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article on
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video of his
“I have a
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This war was one of the worst wars we’ve ever been in.
It brought in the Military Draft which is when the government picks random men by date of birth
to join the war involuntarily. It was extremely unfair. I think the military draft goes against
everything America claims to be.
It started because of the communism going through the world and America thought everyone
was going to become communist, the domino theory.
This war affected everyone whether they were in it, had family in it, or just witnessed it through
television. Most people that did survive the war were never the same because they’ve seen so
much violence and horror.
United States
58,000 lives
350,000 casualties
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Vietnam
One-two million deaths
Song Facts:
Let It Be
By The Beatles
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The sixties is the best generation of music. They
influenced music today. Unlike today’s music, the
music never gets old. People are still listening to this
music today. Music of this time was mostly about
drugs, love, sex, peace, or just living life. Yet the songs
still had a message and a meaning. No generation can
beat the music of the sixties. Music is how the youth
expressed themselves in the 60s. With family
members or themselves being shipped off to war, it
was hard for people to stay happy. Music helped that. I
don’t think many people would have gotten through
the sixties without music to free them from the horror
going on in the world at that time.
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The counterculture is the most interesting aspect of the 60s to me because
I believe in most of things they stood for. If everyone just got past the
money, politics, and war the world will be at peace. Although they had the
right idea, a lot of them didn’t go about it the right way. They were getting
into very dangerous drugs and having unsafe sex. Overall though I think that
if everyone thought that way, the world would be a better place because
it’s hard to watch people killing each other over religion and money. The
counterculture changed the world. A group of young people have never
affected the world so much. They made the sixties.
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Click on the:
Disco Painting – for information on the new
music of the 70s
The Me Picture – for information on the youth
of the 70s
Nixon Newspaper – for information on the
presidents and politics of the 70s
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The music in the 70s started to become softer than
the 60s just like the youth revolution was
softening. Music of the 70s was just to entertain
instead of sending a message. This showed how
generations were changing now that the war is
over and there is a different environment for
youth.
Disco hit it big. It started with African Americans
and Latinos. Pretty soon white kids started picking
it up.
The movie Saturday Night Fever starring John
Travolta made disco even bigger.
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The term “Me Decade” was created by Tom Wolfe.
When you compare the 60s and the 70s, everyone is more self
absorbed in the 70s.
“Everything is all about me.”
The 60s were about everyone coming together, fighting, and
protesting for their beliefs. Now in the 70s, people are just
looking out for themselves.
Search for Zen,
enlightenment,
and fulfillment.
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Nixon’s administration’s attempts to cover up its
involvement in the break-in at the Democratic National
Committee headquarters and other illegal things in Nixon’s
reelection campaign.
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were reporters on this
case.
Five men had broken into the Watergate apartment-office
complex.
Nixon was impeached because he was involved in the
Watergate cover-up, misused federal agencies to violate
the rights of citizens, and wouldn’t turn over the tapes
that Congress requested.
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• The AIDs campaign on TV – for information on
AIDs and gay rights activism
• Ronald Reagan – for information on his
presidency
• The Conservatism vs. Liberalism Flyer – for
information on the battle of these two
political parties
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The AIDS epidemic broke out in
1981.
It’s caused by the virus HIV which
can be passed through sex,
sharing of needles, blood
transfusions, or through any
blood.
More than 100,000 cases in the
U.S. by 1988
This also started the Gay Activist
Movement because people were
labeling this disease as “Gay
Cancer” which is discriminating
because anyone can get it.
The Stonewall Riot was the
beginning of the Gay Activist
Movement.
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“Trickle-down Economics”
Combination of monetarism
and supply-side economics.
Keep interest rates high and
massive tax cut
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• Distrust the power of
the government
• Government power
should be divided into
different branches
• Don’t tax the rich more
or people won’t work as
hard
• Religious faith
• Government should
regulate the economy
• Help disadvantaged and
high tax the wealthier
• Privacy and free speech
• The government stays
out of personal things
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Click on the:
Twin Towers on the TV – for information on
9/11
Uncle Sam Poster – for information on the
War in Iraq and Afghanistan
People Magazine with Obama – for
information of the Election of 2008.
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This day will be forever remembered. So many innocent
people died.
Planes were hijacked by terrorist to hit the twin towers
and the pentagon. Both the towers collapsed and killed so
many people.
This was also the Gateway to the new war to be started in
Afghanistan and eventually Iraq.
No one will ever forget this horrible day in history. It is
very significant to this generation because it caused a lot
of the problems we had today and killed our loved ones.
The heroes of this story are the fireman who risked their
lives and managed to save some of the victims in the
towers.
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In Iraq, there were weapons of mass destruction that were a threat to us.
In Afghanistan, Osama Bin Laden was a threat to America and had been behind the
attacks on September 11.
There are a lot of debates on whether these wars should be taking place. They haven’t
done a good job for George Bush’s reputation. He’s received a lot criticism on the wars
being pointless, killing our soldiers, and killing our economy.
These two wars have affected our world so much. Our economy is in a recession.
We’ve lost a lot of lives. Overall the wars aren’t doing us any good.
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Barack Obama made history as the first black president to be elected into the
White House. Many people wanted change from George Bush and Barack Obama
was that change. He ran up against John McCain. His vice president is Joe Biden.
He ran for the Democratic Nominee which he beat
Hillary Rodman Clinton (The First Woman to Run for President) in.
Woodstock took place on August 15-18 1969. The three day concert had to
have been unforgettable. There was about 400,000 people there on a 600acre dairy farm in Bethel, NY. Everyone came from all over America. It was the
biggest concert of all time. Woodstock was an expression of all the hippies
and people of the counterculture. If I could go back in time, I would go to
Woodstock just to know what it was like to be. Music legends played there. It
would have been amazing to see. This concert made history. It was probably
the best experience ever.
We thought we were all individual, scattered hippies. When we got there, we said, 'Wait a minute,
this is a lot bigger than we thought.' We flew in there by helicopter and saw the New York State
Thruway at a dead stop for twenty miles and a gigantic crowd of at least half a million people. You
couldn't really wrap your mind around how many people were there. It had never happened before,
and it was sort of like having aliens land."
–David Crosby
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So many legendary artists performed at Woodstock
1969. Bands/artists that some people would spend their
life savings to see.
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artist/band to see a
clip of them playing
at Woodstock,
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