Surveys the events and people of the 1960s, a turbulent decade that had a profound and lasting effect on the life and culture of the United States. The set provides coverage of all aspects of the 3 major events of the 1960s that give the decade its distinctive character--the Civil Rights movement, the social revolution, and the Vietnam War--and also surveys important developments in the arts, science and technology, business and the economy, government and politics, and gender issues.