The 1960s
John F. Kennedy Election of 1960 Domestic Policy New Frontier Programs http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/JFK.jpg
Kennedy and Foreign Policy Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961) Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis Flexible Response http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_640x430/public/berlin-wall-construction_5.jpg
The Kennedy Assassination November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas http://www.conservapedia.com/images/thumb/7/78/NYTkennedyslain.jpg/300px-NYTkennedyslain.jpg
Lyndon B. Johnson War on Poverty Election of 1964 Great Society Reforms Results:
Civil Rights in the 60s Civil Rights Acts of 1964 & 1965 MLK and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” March on Washington (1963) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vDWWy4CMhE. March to Montgomery (1965) Voting Rights Act of 1965
Malcolm X, Race Riots, and Black Panthers
The Warren Court Criminal Justice Reapportionment Mapp v. Ohio (1961) Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) Miranda v. Arizona (1966) Reapportionment Baker v. Carr (1962) Freedom of Expression and Privacy Yates v. United States (1957) Engel v. Vitale (1962) Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Social Revolutions and Cultural Movements Student Movement and the New Left Counterculture Sexual Revolution Women’s Movement Anti-war Movement
Vietnam War to 1969 Beginnings and build-up under Kennedy Tonkin Gulf Resolution Escalation Controversy and the credibility gap Hawks vs. doves Tet Offensive End of escalation
1968 Internal conflicts over war, race, and generation gap RFK assassinated, MLK jr. assassinated Election of 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago George Wallace and white backlash Richard Nixon Results