1960s Counterculture


This period was filled with a lot of uncertainty and social turmoil. Between the hippies, the Cuban missile crisis, the World Fair, Bay of Pigs, and the Vietnam War, the world was spinning which prompted a lot of revolutionary behavior with an emphasis on sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Could this be the period in which to set your Wuthering Heights? Check out the following links to decide.

Movie on the Vietnam War and the movement against it:
http://library.thinkquest.org/27942/indexf.htm

Stories about where people were for the first moon landing:
http://www.wherewereyou.com/

The U-2 Incident and the Cold War:
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/ST/STchp20.html

1967: The Summer of Love and Hippie Culture:
http://www.sftoday.com/enn2/summerlove.htm

The Wild Bohemian Web Page: More 60s Culture:
http://colinp1.home.mindspring.com/

 

 

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