(1960s) War and change. Civil Rights Movement, the Space Race, the Kennedys, the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the hippies. The Vietnam War was the first war that people protested against and the first war America had ever “lost.” Thousends of Americans (men and woman) died. The hippie movement, slogan, “make love, not war”, typical of this period.
In 1962, with the Cuban Missile Crisis, US, on the brink of war with the Soviet Union. Soviet placed nuclear missiles on Cuba, 90 miles from US. President Kennedy insisted missiles withdrawn, full-scale war avoided. The Civil Rights Movement intensified the demands for equal rights for everyone. 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong, first man to set foot on the moon.
(1970s) Movements continiud. Civil rights for minorities, women’s rights, end of the Vietnam War. Environmental issues became important. Recession in the steel industry, problems in the industrialized areas Midwest. Area, previously known as “the Steel Belt”, now became known as “the Rust Belt”, industries shut down, factories literally rusted. During this decade there was a large influx of immigrants from Asia, in the aftermath of the US defeat in Vietnam.
(1980s) decade of Ronald Reagan and conservative USA. The country a Cold War the Soviet Union and supported anti-communist movements around the globe. The Berlin Wall, symbol of the “Iron Curtain” that separated the democratic western countries from the communist countries of Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War. 1989 the Berlin Wall came down, the Cold War to an end, USA as the world’s only superpower.
The 80s will also be remembered as the decade of MTV and the music video, and pop icons like Madonna and Michael Jackson.
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