The 1960s

LO: Research the 1960s (UK) in terms of the social, historic and political climate of the decade; research the TV show the Avengers

The swinging 60s:

• Poverty: people were poorer 
• Had a bath once a week
• Respectful to their elders
• Didn't have much health and safety 
• Hippies protesting free love
• Easier to have sex outside of marriage
• Decade of free love
• First time women had a contraception pill

The 1960s life in the UK:

The most famous bands in the 1960s

• The Beatles
• The Rolling Stones
• Pink Floyd
• The Jackson 5
• The Monkees

The music was different during previous decades experimented with several musical styles.

The most famous sports people in the 1960s

• Muhammad Ali
• Willie Mays
• Wilt Chamberlain
• Johnny Unitas
• Jim Brown

Political leaders in the 1960s

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy
• Robert F. Kennedy
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Richard Milhous Nixon
• J Edgar Hoover

Three youth group fashions in the 1960s

• Hippie style was the new Bohemian look based on folk costume with a gypsy influence
• Woman with Afro hairstyles
• Girl in mini skirt, patterned tights, and ribbed top

Science/ technology developments in the 1960s

• The first video game console. Ahh, theres nothing like a rainy afternoon with your console so we have a lot to thank Ralph Baer for when he envisioned the original in 1966
• The first computer mouse
• Light Emitting Diodes
• Dynamic Random Access Memory 
• Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation