The Vietnam in the 1960's

The USA in the 1960's

The Hippy Movement

The VietnamWar

Way of Life

Protest song

The Hippie Movement The hippie movement appered in the 1960's in the USA. The principal characters were young people who didn't like their consumer society and they rebelled against. They had a different culture : they had large colored clothes, they listened to blues, jazz, flamenco, space rock, hard rock and progressif rock, they lived in van and they were free in sex and drogs. The peaces symbols The symbol is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", standing for "Nuclear Disarmament". In semaphore the letter "N" is formed by a person holding two flags in an inverted "V", and the letter "D" is formed by holding one flag pointed straight up and the other pointed straight down. It is logo for the British campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a group at the forefront of the peace movement in the UK, and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the US and elsewhere. The peace symbol was created on the 21st February 1958. In 1933, during a period in which there was widespread fear of war in Europe, the Woman’s Co-operative Guild began the practice of distributing white poppies as an alternative to the red poppies distributed by the Royal British Legion in commemoration of servicemen who died in the First World War. Doves, usually white in color, are used in a variety of settings as symbols of love, peace or as messengers. Doves appear in the symbolism of peace. Its origins of Noah and the ark. When the rains flooded the earth stopped pouring down . Noah sent out various bird to see. They would bring back any sign of land to his boat. One dove eventually returned carrying an olive branch. Pablo Picasso made the symbol popular during WWII. His lithograph, realistic picture of pigeon, without an olive branch, was chosen as the emblem for the world Peace congress in Paris in April 1949. This gesture is thought to have begun in Europe during world war II when a V for victory was painted on walls as a symbol of freedom from occupying forces. The sign was widely used by peace movements in the 1960’s and 1970’s a a symbol of victory to peace and truth. Within Asia, the white crane is the beard of peace. The crane took on this symbolism after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. In 1955 an eleven years old Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki was diagnosed with leukemia from exposure to nuclear radiation. She heard that if she folded a thous and paper cranes, she would be granted a wish .So she began folding one crane after another, wishing for a well body within a world of peace. Sadly, she died within the year, but her story went out to the people of the world.

John Lennon - Imagine

Philosophy

Biography

Peace songs

He was born on the 9th of October 1940 and he was murdered on the 8th of December 1980. He was an English guitar player, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles, in 1960. When the group disbanded in 1970. Lennon embarked on a solo career. He wrote "Give Peace a chance ","Working Class Hero " and "Imagine". After his marriage with Yoko Ono in 1969, he added "Ono"as one of his middles names. Lennon disengaged himself from the music business. Lennon had a rebellious nature. He was a political and peace activist. He moved to Manhattan in 1971, where his criticism of the Vietnam war resulted in Richard Nixon's attempt to deport him. Some of his songs were adopted as anthems by the anti-war movement and the larger counterculture.

The cold war

Time line

The Napalm girl

Kim was 9 years old when she was burnt in her back by a napalm bomb in her village near Saigon. It was in June 1972. A man took a photo of her and she became a symbol of the horrors of the Vietnam war.She is actually 53 years old. She works for Unesco.

The Cold War was a long period of tension between the Western and the communist countries of Eastern Europe. The west was led by the United States and Eatsern Europe was led by the Soviet Union. These two countries became known as superpowers. Although the two superpowers never officially declared war on each other, they fought indirectly in proxy wars, the arms race and the space race.

He wrote "Give peace a chance" on the 1st