Kennedy had gotten us into the Vietnam conflict to preserve the United States’ world influence against Communism. After, Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon B. Johnson, then president, escalated U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam. Marking a turning point in the war, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces in South Vietnam launched the Tet offensive in 1968. Americans became convinced of the war’s futility (Dudley, William. 91-118).

While the U.S. government, a.k.a. the “Establishment,” was fighting a war they couldn’t win to preserve the American way of life

I don’t know if things would have been better if the Movement had succeeded and the war had ended sooner, or if the hippy ideology had taken off. What I do know is that the sixties were a time of great music. So, in closing, remember what the Beatles said, “all you need is love,” and “give peace a chance.”

For what it’s worth, sixties were interesting times. The nation was changing, people were growing, and the times were a-changin. The sixties were a decade of exploration and computation coupled with a sense of self preservation. The Establishment wanted to maintain the status quo, where as the Movement wanted to ensure change.

Also, making an impact on the decade, the music movement of the early sixties reflected and influenced the changing political and cultural currents of the 1960s. The singers themselves, men and women of the Left, sang about peace and war, poverty and injustice, and sometimes they looked forward to the coming revolution. Songs like Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin,” Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son,” and Jimmy Hen

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