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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