The Hippy Movement

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When did the student movement become more extreme in its views?
In the late 1960s
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Some of the student movement members called themselves 'Weathermen' and began to support violence to achieve their aims. What did they take their name from?
A Bob Dylan lyric 'You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows'
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The Weathermen bombed ...
army recruitment centres and government buildings.
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Mainly ... decided to 'drop out' of society and become hippies.
young people
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Who encouraged people to 'drop out' of society and coined the phrase "turn on, tune in and drop out" in 1968?
Timothy Leary
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Why were hippies called 'flower children'?
Because they often wore flowers and handed them out to the police.
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Hippies often settled...
in communes.
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... became the hippie capital of America.
San Francisco
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Why was the hippie movement of particular concern to the older generation?
Because hippies refused to work and experimented in drugs such as marijuana and LSD.
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Some of the student movement members called themselves 'Weathermen' and began to support violence to achieve their aims. What did they take their name from?

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A Bob Dylan lyric 'You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows'

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The Weathermen bombed ...

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Mainly ... decided to 'drop out' of society and become hippies.

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Who encouraged people to 'drop out' of society and coined the phrase "turn on, tune in and drop out" in 1968?

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