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1960s
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File:1960s montage.png|Clockwise from top left: U.S. soldiers during the '''[[Vietnam War]]'''; '''[[the Beatles]]''' led the [[British Invasion]] of the U.S. music market; a half-a-million people participate in the '''[[Woodstock|1969 Woodstock Festival]]'''; [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[Buzz Aldrin]] '''[[Apollo 11|walk on the Moon]]''' during the [[Cold War]]-era [[Space Race]]; the '''[[Stonewall riots]]''' mark the beginning of the [[Gay liberation]] movement; China's [[Mao Zedong]] initiates the [[Great Leap Forward]] plan which fails and brings mass starvation in which [[Great Chinese Famine|15 to 55 million people died]] by 1961, and in 1966, Mao starts the '''[[Cultural Revolution]]''', which purged traditional Chinese practices and ideas; [[John F. Kennedy]] is '''[[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassinated]]''' in 1963, after serving as [[Presidency of John F. Kennedy|President for three years]]; [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] makes his famous "[[I Have a Dream]]" speech to '''[[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|a crowd of 250,000]]'''.|335x335px|thumb|right
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The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "60s" or the "Sixties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969.
Known as the "countercultural decade" in the United States and other Western countries, the Sixties is noted for its counterculture. There was a revolution in social norms, including clothing, music (such as the Altamont Free Concert), drugs, dress, sexuality, formalities, civil rights, precepts of military duty, and schooling. Others denounce the decade as one of irresponsible excess, flamboyance, the decay of social order, and the fall or relaxation of social taboos.
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