The Sixties

The decade the postwar world split open: civil rights, counterculture, the space race, and 1968.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1960 – 1969

region

Global, centered on the West

Core Principles & Analysis

• The civil rights movement, decolonization, and Vietnam protests defined its politics.
• Apollo 11 landed humans on the Moon in July 1969.
• The 1968 protests ran from Paris to Prague to Mexico City.

Sources

• Wikipedia: 1960s