(Understanding Art by looking at History)

1950's and 1960's

Civil Rights Movement
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The Cold War between Russia and US

Korean War (1950 - 1953)

McCarthyism (late 1940's - 1950's)

Mainstream introduction of Television

Rock n Roll (late 1940's - 1950's)

JFK in office and assassinated

Macolm X assassinated

Martin Luther King assassinated

Rise of equal rights, feminism, gay & lesbian rights

Civil Rights Act passed in 1964

Vietnam War (1959-1975)

Black Panther Movement (mid 1960's -1970's)

Protests

The term hippy is born


and you can keep adding

Important movements, groups, schools?

DADA (1916-1920)

Bauhaus Theater (1919-1933)

Action Painting (1940's)

Gutai Group (1954-1972)

Zen Buddhism, Fluxus (1962-1968)