THE SWINGIN’ 60SBy: Kelsey Kummer

INVENTIONS

Significance – We use one everyday!

Computer Mouse

INVENTIONS

Significance – Connections!

E-Mail

INVENTIONS

Significance – Entering another world.

Video Game Console

RANDOM FACTS & INFO

What were people reading in the 60s?Silent Spring One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest The Feminine Mystic

What were people listening to in the 60s? Rolling StonesMarilyn Monroe

INVENTIONS

Significance – Rebellion & Diversity

The “Hippie”

MEDICAL ADVANCES

Significance – Basis of many other medical advances

The Laser

MEDICAL ADVANCES

Significance – Choices & NOW

Birth Control

MEDICAL ADVANCES

Significance – We can defy nature

Artificial Heart Transplant

MEDICAL ADVANCES

Significance – Immediate Response

Emergency Medical Services

Major Events

Random Facts and Info

First Superbowl Sesame Street Debuts Nixon Elected President Cuban Missile Crisis

HISTORICAL EVENTS

Significance – Controversy and Voting Rights

Vietnam War

HISTORICAL EVENTS

Significance – Changed societal views

Civil Rights Movement

HISTORICAL EVENTS

Significance – Hope & Technological Breakthroughs

The Space Race

HISTORICAL EVENTS

Significance – Unity

JFK Presidential Reign

SOURCES

http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/6-technologies-to-thank-the-1960s-for-650980

http://www.wwwk.co.uk/culture/inventions/60s/laser.htm

http://www.pbs.org/opb/thesixties/timeline/index.html http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470509

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