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The following ideas and projects are intended to offer suggestions for complementing your classroom work on understanding various aspects of the 1960s in America:

The 1960s Outside America:

You know that the 1960s were a turbulent, exciting decade in the United States, but did you know that similar disruptions shook some of the other major countries around the world? In the summer of 1968, student walkouts and union strikes paralyzed much of France, especially the capital city of Paris. That same year, an uprising against communist rule in Czechoslovakia led to an invasion of that country by troops sponsored by the Soviet Union. Research the events that happened in France, Czechoslovakia, or some other country and compare and contrast them with events in the United States.

A Decade of Movements:

The 1960s is often seen as a decade of movements. The civil rights movement, the antiwar...