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1 An Overview of the Decade
The 1960’s An Overview of the Decade

2 Interesting Facts Population: 177,830,000 Unemployment: 5.5%
Minimum Wage: $1.00 Life Expectancy: M-66.6, F-73.1 Average Salary: $4,743 Gas: $0.31

3 What’s Going On? Begins full of promise, but ends in confusion, anger, and despair The Camelot Era Cuban Missile Crisis Assassinations Vietnam War Campus Radicals Civil Rights Movement Black Power Women’s Liberation

4 Lifestyle & Fashion Hippie Lifestyle Long Hair Mini skirt
First lady/Celebrity Fashion Barbie Dolls

5 Entertainment Summertime/Beach Folk Music Beatlemania! Soul/Motown
Pop Art Confusion of Life portrayed in Movies The TV Generation

6 Sports & Leisure Baseball Shattered Records
1969 = year for the Underdogs Ali fights against the war

7 Science & Technology Space Race Organ Transplants Telstar (AT & T)

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