Decade Of Change

• The 1960’s left the past behind, breaking off into new exciting paths of the future. There were great advances in science, fashion, language and technology due to the presence of the 1940’s baby boom.

• Although many of the 60’s clichés are often joked about, many of them are in fact true.

• With the economy buoyant, unemployment almost non-existent and wages steadily rising, millions of families bought their first cars, washing machines, fridges and televisions.

• Even the nation's diet was changing, transformed not just by the arrival of foreign imports from chicken tikka masala to spaghetti bolognese, but by the relentless advance of the supermarket.

• From the new tower blocks springing up in cities across the country to the radios in teenagers' bedrooms, from Beatles hits and Bond films to comprehensive schools and nuclear power stations, Sixties Britain seemed to be a country reborn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcEXZcv2Q-c

Demonstrations

People were demonstrating in an effort to try and stop the Vietnam war.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/topics/antiwar-demos.htm

Additions to the dictionary

• Hippie • Sexism• Genetic code• Megabyte• Jetlag

1960’s Slang

• Blitzed – drunk• Cherry- best condition• Chop – a person you dislike• Don’t have a cow- don’t be upset• Groovy- nice• Heat - police