1960s

File:1960s montage.png|Clockwise from top left: U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War; the Beatles led the British Invasion of the U.S. music market that subsequently spread worldwide, pictured here first landing in the U.S. in 1964; a half-a-million people participate in the 1969 Woodstock Festival; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon during the Cold War-era Space Race; the Stonewall riots mark the beginning of the gay liberation movement; China's Mao Zedong initiates the Great Leap Forward plan which fails and brings mass starvation in which 15 to 55 million people died by 1961, and in 1966, Mao starts the Cultural Revolution, which purged traditional Chinese practices and ideas; John F. Kennedy is assassinated in 1963, after serving as President for three years; Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd of 250,000.|335x335px|thumb|right rect 2 2 237 166 Vietnam War rect 240 2 498 166 The Beatles rect 2 169 192 296 Assassination of John F. Kennedy rect 196 169 317 296 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom rect 321 169 497 296 Woodstock rect 2 300 117 392 Cultural Revolution rect 2 393 117 486 Great Leap Forward rect 122 300 237 486 Stonewall riots rect 241 300 497 486 Apollo 11

The 1960s (pronounced "nineteen-sixties", shortened to the "60s" or the "Sixties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969.