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Vietnam War
Vietnam war was said to be a useless war with thousands of american lives lost and noting changed over seas (Hair) -
Hippies
Hippe subculture developed as a youth movemnt. So i havent seen Hair but aparently theres somthing about hippies in it. -
Draft
Draft started in 1940 but put into effect during the Vieatnam war in hair a bunch of kids got drafted. -
John F. Kennedy
Jfk was elected into the presidency in the year of 1960. He was the president that had civil rights on his mind an the blackes who could vote voted for him.In hairspray civil right was what it was mostly about. -
Race riots
as street gangs got bigger and spread ver the u.s. race riots showed up woth the news more and more. (West Side Story) -
Black Power movement
in hairrspray one of the girls was on a dance show that was all white people but she wanted to mix it with blacks. The black power movement was a display oh how blacks can do something -
Ant-War Movement
was a campaing against the vieatnam war.Which ties in with Hair somehow. -
"I Have A Dream"
Martin Luther King Jr. made a speech at the lincoln memorial. His speech opened the eyes of many African Americans and white people every where -
JFK dead
JFK was assasinated. When he died the hope for civil rights didn die with him. -
Lyndon B. Johnson
Was sworne into office after JFK was assasinated -
Civil rights
Civil right act was passed by Lyndon B. Jhonson (hairspray) -
Sexual Revolution
In grease the bady boy falls in love with the good girl. But that has nothing to do with Sexual revolutin, occurring in western countries is still happening today but not as much. -
LBJ
He was a huge contriuter in civi tight evan though he didnt belive in it fully he was so determined to fulfill Kennedys wish to have civil right that he didnt care about anything that people said. (hairspray) -
Areosmith
formed which added another rock/pop band to the list of bands that teens used to rebel against there parents which in someways is what happened in grease. -
Watergate
was a scandal in tthe democratic party -
Draft ended
draft ended (hair)
