While the achievements of humans being launched into space, orbiting earth, performing spacewalks, and walking on the moon extended exploration, the sixties are known as the countercultural. Learn about the most important figures and events of this decade. The '60s arrived like a jolt, shaking up a world that had seemed so orderly before.

The next, protests, music legends, and cultural upheavals were everywhere. Although best associated with its counter-culture (flower-power) and music, the 1960s was a tremendously turbulent decade both domestically and internationally for the united states.