View of two American soliders in the fore as, behind them, a UH-1D Tactical Transport helicopter takes off after unloading troops during Operation White Wing, near Bong Son, Vietnam, February 19, 1966. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
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A student leans on his placard during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at the US Embassy in London, England, 1969.
A lot of the soldiers wrote graffiti on their helmets with inscriptions of their attitudes about where they were and why they were there. The military called it
Decades after they sat in Mrs. Davis’ fourth grade class, former students donated Vietnam War materials to the American History Museum
To obtain some guidance for young men and their parents about the draft during the Vietnam War era, US News & World Report asked draft officials 20 questions.
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G-RATED VERSION | CLEAN VERSION Please Note: Sex and drugs of this time are not addressed in this lesson as they may not be appropriate in certain educational settings. You are welcome to put your spin on it if you feel your students are developmentally and socially ready. This lesson is focused on counterculture's free-thinking. **INCLUDES TWO REAL-LIFE ENCOUNTERS (INTERVIEWS)** What is counterculture and how can it change the world we live in? Students will look at the counterculture of the 1960-70s through the festival at Bethel, New York— the age of hippies, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War. Explore the event surrounding this time and event and determine how the counterculture of this time made an impact and changed American culture. This lesson also implements depth and complexity of the topic. GRADE LEVEL: 7TH-12TH TIME FRAME: 60-90 MINUTES TYPE OF ACTIVITY: GROUP COOPERATION OR INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY OBJECTIVES o The learner will understand the circumstances and purpose of the Woodstock Art & Music Fair Festival of ‘69. o The learner will read first-hand accounts of those who attended Woodstock ‘69. o The learner will hypothesize how Woodstock ‘69’s counterculture changed American culture. o The learner will explore the changes over time in American culture before, during, and after Woodstock. MATERIALS: o Reading Activity (Included) May consider laminating for future use with classes and for durability. o Depth & Complexity Activity (Included) o Folder with pockets, one per group. Place the laminated reading activity on the left-hand pocket and the Depth & Complexity, Geographically Speaking, and Exit Tickets copies in the right-hand pocket, paper clipped together. Print the cover page and glue or staple it to the front of the folder. Place one folder at each group’s station. o Exit Tickets (Included) o Song from Spotify or other sources: Jimi Hendrix's “The Star Spangle Banner,” Live at Woodstock o Technology to play the YouTube video of Jimi Hendrix’s appearance on the Dick Cavett Show. o Internet access for any research needed. INCLUDES: o Teacher's Guide o Introduction Activity o Procedure o Closure/Evaluation o Anwer guides Disclaimer: One purchase is for the use of one teacher. If additional teachers would like to use this product, please purchase additional licenses.
These movements include the civil rights movement, the student movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement, the gay rights movement, and the environmental movement. Each, to varying degrees, changed government policy and, perhaps more importantly, changed how almost every American lives today. "Bombing For Peace Is Like Fucking For Virginity." This was on a sign in the 1960s during during a Vietnam War protest. "We Won't Fight Another Rich Man's War!!!" - Vietnam veterans against the War, circa 1970. Hippies selling acid during Woodstock 69. Women attend an Equal Pay for Equal Work demonstration in London's Trafalgar Square in May 1968. NAACP protest, Memphis, TN, early 1960s. African Americans protest against the war in Vietnam during the Harlem Peace March, 1967. Student at Montgomery High School protest intergration, 1963. Kay Tobin Lahusen, right, and other demonstrators carry signs calling for protection of homosexuals from discrimination as they march in a picket line in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, July 1967. Screaming Beatles' fans holding banners and waving at band, Australia, June 1964. On a cool and sunny fall day in Hartford, ten thousand people jammed into Bushnell Park with one goal: to stop the war in Vietnam. As the single largest protest of its kind in the city’s history, October 15, 1969 was historic. A young American woman holds up a sign as she protests for women's rights in front of the Federal Trade Commission headquarters while policemen look on during Richard Nixon's inauguration weekend, Washington, DC, January 18-21, 1969. Members of the National Women's Liberation Party protest the Miss America beauty pageant as degrading to women, September 1968 Girls from the British Society for the Protection of Mini Skirts stage a protest outside the House of Dior, for its 'unfair' treatment of mini skirts, ca. 1966. Gay rights activists picket the White House in 1965 to protest government discrimination against homosexuals. Hippie protesting the Vietnam War, ca. 1960s.
It was a special time in American culture.
A lot of the soldiers wrote graffiti on their helmets with inscriptions of their attitudes about where they were and why they were there. The military called it
Operation Babylift had some problems, though.
The 1960s were a time of change. Young people, watching their friends and family drafted into the Vietnam War, began to question traditional society and the government. Women changed their views on their place and role in the family.
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Every photo from a landmark, and intensely controversial, 1969 LIFE magazine feature
Here we are, almost forty years after the end of the Vietnam War, reminiscing on Facebook and other social websites about those experiences we endured in a war so long ago. As we age, …
