The emergence of

1960s

countercultureHIPPIES

Today we will

take notes on the emergence of the 1960s

counterculture

Talk about what helped/hurt the hippies cause

Assess how the changes shaped idea of war in

America

Introduce the war in Vietnam using firsthand

accounts in the film Vietnam in HD

Name that movement

Question conventional values

Changed styles in art and music

Questioned religion

Made their predecessors nuts

Name that movement

Question conventional values

Changed styles in art and music

Questioned religion

Made their predecessors nuts

The 1960s – Youth Counterculture

Question 1

What ideas have we adopted from the hippies?

Would they seem so extreme today?

Drugs

Hippies experimented with psychotropic

drugs.

Hallucinogens would “expand their minds”

to make them more creative

Concerts and festivals were meeting places

for enthusiasts

Religion

Practiced eastern religions

Scoffed at traditional practices

Renounced religion all together

Question

How could these views hut the movement

politically?

decide their stance on

WAR

Poverty

Government control

Freedom

Founding fathers