Kelsea Filippi - 10 Moments from the 60s

By Kelseafilippi

  • #5 FDA Approves the Birth Control Pill

    -Kick started a sexual revolution
    -Women were free to pursue higher education and careers

  • #7 The Cuban Missile Crisis

    -During the midst of the Cold War
    -Soviet missiles in Cuba
    -President Kennedy orders blockade of the Caribbean nation
    -Nuclear warfare seemed very possible
    -Agreement where each country deactivates some of its missiles

  • #1 JKF's Assassination

    -Seemed the perfect President to lead the US through the 60s
    -His death shook the country

  • #10 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    -war raged in Vietnam
    -America didn't want to see Communism spread
    -American soldier were allowed to participate in the war

  • #2 The Civil Rights Act

    -Civil Rights Movement grew through nonviolent protests
    -African-American finally rewarded
    -Eliminated segregation and biased voting requirements
    -Equality for minorities
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    #8 Assassinations of Civil Rights Leaders

    -Martin Luther King Jr
    -Malcom X
    -Their deaths left the Civil Rights Movement in dire straits

  • #6 Democratic National Convention

    -Anti-war protesters
    -News stations captured footage

  • #3 The Tet Offensive

    -Vietnam War seemed a certain success for America
    -Viet Cong soldiers attacked the South Vietnamese during a holiday cease fire
    -The invasion was fought off
    -Americans became disgusted with the war

  • #9 Woodstock

    -Woodstock festival
    -rock and soul music
    -counterculture took solace in the fields of upstate New York
    -free love and open drug use
    -free from government interference

  • #4 Apollo 11 Lands on the Moon

    -US and the Soviet Union involved in a space race
    -The footage of the landing became legendary
    -The US's future looked brighter