1 / 16

Year 10 History Assessment task: The World in the 60’s:

Year 10 History Assessment task: The World in the 60’s:. By Jake Davies. 1960s facts. The 1960s in Australia were a time of political and social upheaval . During the 1960s the first artificial heart was put in a human to keep them alive for three days (until a human heart became available)

noel
Download Presentation

Year 10 History Assessment task: The World in the 60’s:

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Year 10 History Assessment task:The World in the 60’s: By Jake Davies

  2. 1960s facts • The 1960s in Australia were a time of political and social upheaval. • During the 1960s the first artificial heart was put in a human to keep them alive for three days (until a human heart became available) • In 1969, Woodstock was the place where 400,000 people gathered to take part in the hippy movement. • The surgeon general forced cigarette manufactures to post warning label on all packages and ads in 1965. • In the 1960s, the birth control pill became popular and available to many. In 1967 The life expectancy of males was 66.6 years, with females being 73.1 years. • The average salary in the 1960s was $4,743

  3. fashion • During the 1960s fashion changed more dramatically than in any other decade of the 20th century. • the 1960s clothing reflected on the new movement towards comfort, youthful independence and rebellion. • The 1960s was a time of social and political change. • In the early 1960s the fashion was simple and feminine to mod fashions (Mods were young men who rode mopeds, wore tailored clothing and listened to jazz music.) such as miniskirts and hot pants to the wild, daring “anything goes” style at the end of the 1960s. • With 'mod' fashion came the miniskirt. It caused a sensation at the time, but was generally accepted by the end of the decade.

  4. Flower power • “flower power” is known as the hippie style. • The hippie lifestyle is based on peace , drug experimentation and communal living which had a strong impact on fashion. • Hippies used clothes as a form of protest. • They borrowed clothing styles from folk cultures, using strong colours, flamboyant styles and humble items such as jeans to show their rebellion and thirst for freedom. • their behaviour was shocking to many people, their styles soon entered the mainstream and the world of high fashion.

  5. Fashion and influences • the Beatles were a massive influence on peoples fashion in the 1960s, they made longer hair for men fashionable. Although this became very controversial, in Australia, a boy who had a “Beatles haircut” could be suspended or even expelled from school. • A British fashion designer called Mary Quant was one of the first to make mini skirts popular in England. • The wife of the USA president of the 1960s, Jacqueline Kennedy became famous for her fashion sense and influenced the style of the 1960s. She made pillbox hats popular, women copied her look in the USA and Australia

  6. Music in the 1960s • The music in the 1960s was not music to dance to but more to listen to, it was music with a message. • Artists like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez sang songs about the need for social change. • Both Australian music charts and Australian bands were heavily influenced by American and British music styles throughout the 1960s. • Surf music was a new style of music that became very popular. It combined complicated vocal harmonies with a lively beat. • Folk music was extremely popular in the early 1960s.

  7. Sport in the 1960s • Sport in Australia allows an expression of traditional values and reflects both the British and American influence of the culture. • Lawn bowls and netball were the largest participant sports. netball, soccer, cricket, rugby league and union and Australian Rules Football where also very popular. • Rugby league got most of the media coverage. But women's sports were heavily ignored by the media. • In the 1960s sports people generally turned professional at the end of their career because the main sporting competitions (e.g. the Olympics, Davis cup, test cricket) could only be competed in by amateurs. • The US and Britain heavily influenced Australia with Surfing, tenpin bowling and basketball. Australia had international success with surfing. • In Athletics, swimming, boxing, squash and motor racing Australia had world champions.

  8. The moon landing • US astronauts Neill Armstrong, Edwin E Aldrin Jnr and Michael Collins landed on the moon July 1969 • An estimated half a billion television viewers watched the moon landing. • Television cameras were mounted on the moons surface to broadcast live images of their activities so home viewers could watch their every move. • Neill Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon. • The astronauts collected about 50 pounds of lunar rocks and soil from the moon.

  9. Following their 2.5 hour moonwalk, Armstrong and Aldrin blasted off from the moon on July 21, leaving behind a U.S. flag and a plaque bearing the inscription: "Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.“ • The astronauts spacecraft Apollo 11 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, 24 July, a week and a day (195 hours) after departing the Florida launch site. The astronauts, greeted by Nixon aboard the U.S.S. Hornet, were kept in quarantine for sixteen days because scientists feared the introduction of pathogens from outer space (none was found).

  10. Woodstock festival • The Woodstock Festival was a three-day concert (which rolled into a fourth day) that involved lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll - plus a lot of mud. • The Woodstock Music Festival of 1969 has become an icon of the 1960s hippie counterculture. • The Woodstock festival happened between 15-18 august. • The location of the Woodstock festival was at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in the town of Bethel (outside of White Lake, New York)

  11. The Woodstock festival is also known as the Woodstock Music Festival; An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music. • The organizers of the Woodstock festival were four men: John Roberts, Joel Rosen man, Artie Kornfeld, and Mike Lang. they where all under the age of 27. • The original plan for the Woodstock festival was to build a recording studio and a retreat for rock musicians up in Woodstock, New York (where Bob Dylan and other musicians already lived). The idea morphed into creating a two-day rock concert for 50,000 people with the hope that the concert would raise enough money to pay for the studio. • The tickets cost $7 for one day, $13 for two days, and $18 for three days.

  12. Computers in the 1960s • The first computer was developed in 1642 and consisted of gears and wheels. • the inventor was a French Mathermation and Scientist by the name of Blaise Pascal. • The first wheel would count from 1 to 9, the second wheel would count from 10 to 99, the third wheel would count from 100 to 999, etc. • The problem with the first computer, was that it could only add and subtract.

  13. Microwaves in the 1960s • The microwave oven did not come about as a result of someone trying to find a better, faster way to cook. • During World War II, two scientists invented the magnetron, a tube that produces microwaves. Installing magnetrons in Britain’s radar system, the microwaves were able to spot Nazi warplanes on their way to bomb the British Isles. • By accident, several years later, it was discovered that microwaves also cook food. • the first microwave oven to go on the market was roughly as large and heavy as a refrigerator. • The first Raytheon commercial microwave oven was the 1161 Radarange, which was marketed in 1954. Rated at 1600 watts, it was so large and expensive that it was practical only for restaurant and institutional use.

  14. Television in the 1960s • The Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead many people working together and alone over the years, contributed to the evolution of television. • The introduction of television in 1956 changed the way Australians viewed entertainment in the 60s. • By 1964 Australians owned more TVs per head of population than any other country. • Australians no longer went to the movies in large numbers and radio changed from variety (with mostly Australian content) to mostly imported music.

  15. The Television became the greatest influence on how Australians saw the world. • most programs were imported from the US or Britain, these countries had a big influence on our popular culture. • Many cinemas shut down as Australians stayed home to watch TV. Movies tried to compete by producing big budget epics . • The -drive in movie- became popular for a time, especially with young people because of the freedom and privacy they offered.

  16. bibliography • https://www.google.com.au/search?num=10&hl=e n& authuser =0&site= imgh p& tbm = isch & source= hp & biw =1016&bih=520&q=television+in+the+1960&oq=television+in+the+1960&gs_l=img.12...0.0.0.10391.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1ac.dgJwNAhKSNc • www.thepastisablast.com/funfacts/fun_facts_1960s.htm • www.abc.net.au/archives/timeline/1960s.htm • www.skwirk.com.au/.../1960s.../1960s.../social-and-cultural-features-... • www.myplace.edu.au/decades_timeline/1960/decade_landing_4.html • www.tiesncuffs.com.au/.../6361434-mens-fashion-during-the-1960s • www.powerhousemuseum.com/insidethecollection/tag/1960s-fashion/ • http://www.modcloth.com/shop/1960s-fashion

More Related