1960s
Moon landing era
The 1960s are the years 1960 through 1969.
The decade is associated with the civil rights movement, counterculture, the Vietnam War, and rapid social change: the music of the 1960s, 1960s fashion.
Someone's sixties are the years from their sixtieth to sixty-ninth birthday: She's in her sixties.
Countercultural youth of the sixties
- WoodstockLandmark 1969 music festival
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- free loveUnstructured romantic and sexual bonds
- psychedelicInducing altered perception
communes · LSD · Haight-Ashbury · Timothy Leary · tie-dye · peace sign · drop out · incense
Iconic sixties rock quartet
- Rolling StonesJagger's legendary rock group
- MotownDetroit's soulful moniker
- British InvasionSixties UK music takeover
- psychedelic rockHallucinogen-inspired music genre
Jimi Hendrix · Bob Dylan · Supremes · folk rock · electric guitar · Woodstock · vinyl · protest songs
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- Tet OffensiveCoordinated 1968 guerrilla assault
- napalmFlammable gel for bombs
- Agent OrangeWartime defoliant chemical
- SaigonFormer Vietnamese capital
helicopters · jungle warfare · My Lai Massacre · Ho Chi Minh · Viet Cong · guerrilla warfare · escalation · search and destroy
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Countercultural youth of the sixties
- WoodstockLandmark 1969 music festival
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- free loveUnstructured romantic and sexual bonds
psychedelic · communes · LSD · Haight-Ashbury · Timothy Leary · tie-dye · peace sign · drop out · incense · beads
Beatles
Iconic sixties rock quartet
- Rolling StonesJagger's legendary rock group
- MotownDetroit's soulful moniker
- British InvasionSixties UK music takeover
Jimi Hendrix · psychedelic rock · Bob Dylan · Supremes · folk rock · electric guitar · Woodstock · vinyl · protest songs · surf rock
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- Tet OffensiveCoordinated 1968 guerrilla assault
- napalmFlammable gel for bombs
- Agent OrangeWartime defoliant chemical
Saigon · helicopters · jungle warfare · My Lai Massacre · Ho Chi Minh · Viet Cong · guerrilla warfare · escalation · search and destroy · POW
- Decades1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1970s
- Fashion ErasVictorian era, Edwardian era, Elizabethan era, Georgian era, Baroque
- vintage stylesretro, antique, Victorian, Art Nouveau, mid-century modern
- MotownMotown sound, Berry Gordy, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross
- LSDacid, blotter, tabs, trip, microdot
1960s2020s
Third decade, 21st century
modern era · contemporary times · today · Middle Ages · antiquity
- 1960s countercultureSixties anti-establishment movement