British Invasion
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The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s, when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States with sign
The arrival of the Beatles in the United States in 1964 marked the start of the British Invasion.
Fans and media swarm the Beatles at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands in 1964.
Ed Sullivan and the Beatles, February 1964
Counterculture of the 1960s
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The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s. It overlaps with cu
British Invasion
…music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture became popular in the United States with significant influence on the rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. British pop and rock groups such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Who, The Kinks…
Underwater atomic test "Baker", Bikini Atoll, Pacific Ocean, 1946
Free Speech activist Mario Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
King's "I Have a Dream" speech, given in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington
A family watches television, c. 1958