1960- 1969
The sixties were the age of youth, as 70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. Young people wanted change. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment. Many of the revolutionary ideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today.
The sixties were the age of youth, as 70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults. Young people wanted change. The changes affected education, values, lifestyles, laws, and entertainment. Many of the revolutionary ideas which began in the sixties are continuing to evolve today.
★FACTS about this decade:
Population 177,830,000
Unemployment 3,852,000
National Debt 286.3 Billion
Average Salary $4,743
Teacher's Salary $5,174
Minimum Wage $1.00
Life Expectancy: Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years.
★Education
During the sixties, college campuses became centers of debate and scenes of protest more than ever before.
Problems in secondary schools, discovered in the fifties. A return to the teaching of basic thinking skills was seen to be part of the solution.
★FADS
Youth predominated the culture of the 1960's. The post World War II Baby Boom had created 70 million teenagers for the sixties, and these youth swayed the fashion, the fads and the politics of the decade.
★1960, February 13 - The first French nuclear test occurs at Reganne, Algeria, in the Sahara Desert. It has a yield of 60-70 kilotons.
★1961, October 31 - U.S.S.R. explodes the world's largest nuclear bomb, with a yield of 58 megatons.
★1963, August 5 - Limited Test Ban Treaty signed by the U.S., U.S.S.R. and the U.K., prohibiting tests of nuclear devices in the atmosphere, in outer space, and underwater.
★1964, October 16 - China explodes its first atomic bomb at the Lop Nur test site. It was an uranium 235 implosion fission device named "596" and has a yield of 22 kilotons.
★1966, September 24 - First French atomic bomb tested at Muruoa Atoll.
★1967, June 17 - First hydrogen bomb test by the Chinese, with a yield of 3.3 megatons.
★1968, August 24 - France tests its first hydrogen bomb at Fangataufa Atoll in the South Pacific. It has a yield of 2.6 megatons.
For better understanding of nuclear test allocations, please click on Nuclear Tests on World map.
REFERENCES:
American Culture History on Kingwood College Library
Nuclear test sites on Atomicarchive
Timeline of the Nuclear Age on Atomicarchive
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