Quick Facts About this Decade Population 177,830,000 Unemployment 3,852,000 National Debt 286.3 Billion Average Salary $4,743 Teacher's Salary $5,174.

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Quick Facts About this Decade Population 177,830,000 Unemployment 3,852,000 National Debt Billion Average Salary $4,743 Teacher's Salary $5,174 Minimum Wage $1.00 Life Expectancy: Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years Auto deaths 21.3 per 100,000 An estimated 850,000 "war baby" freshmen enter college; emergency living quarters are set up in dorm lounges, hotels and trailer camps.

Elections  John F Kennedy "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."  Lyndon B Johnson – 1963 After Kennedys Assassination  Richard Nixon – the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974

Closer Look  The TV debate: Nixon v. Kennedy (1960)  Bay Of Pigs Invasion  Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)  March on Washington (1963)

Continued  JFK Assassination (1963)  The Tet Offensive (1968)  Assassinations (1968)  Moon Landing (1969)

Economic/ Financial  During the 1960s the United States experienced its longest uninterrupted period of economic expansion  After World War II the efficiency and productivity of the US economy improved markedly  The government played several economic roles

Hippies  Started in 1967  Summer of love Youths  Experiments with drugs  Rock Scene  Hippie Fashion  Baby Boomers

Music & TV & Sports  Sports; Muhammad Ali, Willie Mays, Wilt Chamberlain  Music; The Beatles Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Simon & Garfunkel  Television; Late Night with Johnny Carson, The Dick Van Dyke Show

Social Movements  Civil Rights; Equal rights for African Americans  Free speech movement  Anti-war movement  Feminism  Gay Liberations movements

How did the 1960s Change The world today  The sixties was the age of youth  Resulted in revolutionary ways of thinking and real change in theAmerican life.  The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment.

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