Mad Men enters 1965. What were the major trends and events of that year?

Wow @rpak... I just finished watching this episode and I thought it did a great job of filling in the blanks on the hole gang, all those smaller but just as important details of the new season. **SPOILER ALERT** Wow, I almost feel psychic. Last week I noted in your last question that I thought Don Draper needed to get back in touch with his emotions and possibly visit the real Draper widow and he does.

mahalo.com/answers/thoughts-on-the-desce... Thoughts on the decent of Don Draper in Mad Men But I guess I am again disappointed in Don. He seems to float though life and predicaments without becoming a part of anything. Especially when he parties with Lane Pryce at the end of the holidays... he seems to be going through all the motions, but is emotionally vacant.

I guess prostitutes don't help either. Oh that Joan Harris! She can have a tank thrown at her and not bat an eye.

I truly feel that sometimes she is the rock of this show. I hoping that her new husband works out, but where he's going... he won't be the same, even if he comes back from the war... as the history books tell us. Okay, the first video I posted has some fashions that I think will pop out soon on the show.

Very late 1960's. 1965 at a glance: *They already mentioned the Vietnam War, but they haven't mentioned that this year it really worsens. *They also already mentioned the anti-war movement in Berkeley very briefly in this last episode.

*1965 became the year of health warnings on cigarette packs. I know they talked about them looming in previous seasons, but this year smoking takes on a less 'fashionable' face. They also ban cigarette commercials on TV in Britain.

This will be interesting! *I'm surprised someone hasn't mentioned the Beatlesby now... at least in passing! *I'm also keeping my fingers crossed that they show a 1965 Mustang.It's my favorite car.

*Civil rights continue with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Alabama and Malcolm X getting shot. *There are also the riots in Watts that lasted six days, but that all happened in Los Angeles. Since this was the year I was born... I'm sure it will be a blast at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Advertising Agency.

Look for Mondrian-inspired designs and for evening, one shoulder gowns.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.