Oh, What a Lovely War!
1963 · Work
Joan Littlewood's satirical musical (filmed 1969) fixes the image of the war as pointless slaughter for the 1960s generation.
On these timelines: World War I, Arts and Thoughts, Master
More from World War I
- July Crisis 1914 (1914)
- Trench warfare on the Western Front (period) (1914)
- Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
- Fourteen Points speech (1918)
- Hundred Days Offensive (1918)
- Spring Offensive (Kaiserschlacht) (1918)
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918)
- Sinking of the Lusitania (1915)
Around 1963
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)