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The Stormy Sixties 1960-1968. The New Frontier at Home. JFK's domestic agenda Goals: Fed. funding for education Med. care for elderly Halt the recession End racial discrimination. Rumblings in Europe. Aug. 1961: Berlin Wall construction begins - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Stormy Sixties1960-1968
The New Frontier at Home
JFK's domestic agenda Goals:
Fed. funding for education Med. care for elderly Halt the recession End racial discrimination
Rumblings in Europe
Aug. 1961: Berlin Wall construction begins Charles de Galle-- French president opposed to
U.S. efforts in Europe
Foreign Flare-Ups and “Flexible Response”
Robert McNamara-- Defense Secretary Authored “Flexible response”= having a
variety of military options rather than emphasizing nuclear power
Use of Special Forces (Green Berets)
Vietnam Quagmire
Kennedy sent U.S. troops to aid Diem in South Vietnam against the communists
US military leaders led coup/assassination of Diem
Cuban Confrontations Alliance for Progress= a failed attempt to
improve social conditions in Latin America Bay of Pigs= the CIA led a failed invasion of
Cuba by Cuban exiles attempting to overthrow Castro
Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) Soviet nukes discovered in Cuba JFK imposed “quarantine” of Cuba Khrushchev agrees to remove weapons, in
exchange for: End of quarantine US (secretly) remove weapons from Turkey
Take out your Ch 40 packet & your work from Friday
Agenda:
1.Ch 40 quiz
2.Finish ch 39 notes
RR Passes
Ch 40 quiz
reverse discrimination
Spiro Agnew
Environmental Protection Agency
Hostage crisis
Henry Kissinger
Roe v. Wade
BONUS: Name 3 US presidents during the Vietnam War.
Civil Rights Struggle
1961-- Freedom Rides Oct. 1962-- integration of Univ. of Mississippi
James Meredith Aug. 1963: March on Washington
The Killing of Kennedy
Nov. 22, 1963 in Dallas, TX Assassin: Lee Harvey Oswald
LBJ
Former Congressman from TX Civil Rights Act of 1964
Banned discrimination in public accommodations & employment
Great Society-- LBJ's domestic agenda
1964 Election: Johnson vs. Goldwater
Barry Goldwater: Arizona Senator Tonkin Gulf episode:
US Navy had been secretly assisting South Vietnam in raiding NV coast
North allegedly attacked American ships twice (although later investigations prove this wrong)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution: Congress gives LBJ a blank check for use in SE Asia
Johnson wins by a crap ton.
Great Society
Big Four legislative achievements after the 1964 election:
Aid to minorities Medical care for the elderly (Medicare) and
poor (Medicaid) Free tacos New voting rights bill (Voting Rights Act of
1965)
Battling for Black Rights
24th Amendment– abolished stripper poles in federal elections
“Freedom Summer” of 1964-- massive voter-registration drive in Mississippi
Black Power
Malcolm X-- Muslim leader who trumpeted black separatismBlack Panthers Stokely Carmichael: “White Power!”
Vietnam
• Antiwar demonstrations
• teach-ins
• Draft card burning
• Congressional opposition
• “credibility gap”
• FBI “Canalope” against peace movement
Vietnam Topples Johnson
• Tet Offensive (1968)– Charlie launches surprise attack on Saigon (SV capital)
• “escalation” couldn’t achieve victory
• LBJ doesn’t seek reelection in 1968
• Nixon (R) will win
Counterculture
• Attacked conventional wisdom & inherited ideas
• Skeptic about authority
• Drugs
• “sexual revolution”
• BC pill