1960 Contemporary Framework
The swinging 60s - 1960s
- the Beatles
- Moon landing
- poverty and rationing
- in the uk their was three main youth groups
- Mods - Bowl cuts, focused on music and fashion, illegal drug users
- rockers - Motorcycles, rock' n 'roll, switchblades, illegal drug users
- hippies - illegal drug users,sex outside marriage, people who want peace, protestors, hate war and free lovers,
- The decade of free love as there was a pill that was created for people over 21.
- Pill = free love
- 1968 if you were a gay couple and were to have sex you would not be sent to jail, but you would still be discriminated. This allowed two men to be in a relationship However women were not jailed if it was a lesbian couple.
- Gay and lesbian couples were now legal.
- Drugs were legal in the 60s but was later made illegal as it made peoples health decrease.
- coca cola was designed to make you happy however it contained cocaine that was found to make you depressed
- Vietnam war
- 1940s -
- In the 1940s world war two took place
- Hitler and the Nazis.
- The great depression
- war years still influencing the rationing and poverty in 1960s
- Many people died during war
- 1950s -
- President Truman receives the NSC-68 Report about the Cold War
- The Great Smog of London or Great Smog of 1952, a severe air-pollution event that affected the British capital
- called the Golden Age of Capitalism
- Colour TV
- Elvis Presley
- USA invented the term teenager
- Disney opens
- the hula hop was created
- Mcdonalds was founded
- Different youth groups, mods and rockers
In 1970s Multi cultural Britain was in full swing however interracial couples were frowned upon.
mods -
Rockers -
Hippies - 
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Welcome into the 60s
-Hippies
-Rockeres
-Mods
-Wilma Rudolph
-The Beatles
-The rolling stones
-Martin luther king
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