Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e Chapter 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

Highlights Expanding the Liberal State The Battle for Racial Equality “Flexible Response” and the Cold War The Agony of Vietnam The Traumas of 1968 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Expanding the Liberal State John Kennedy Election of 1960 Kennedy Assassinated The Election of 1960 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Expanding the Liberal State John F. Kennedy (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Expanding the Liberal State Lyndon Johnson The “Great Society” Lyndon Johnson (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Expanding the Liberal State The Assault on Poverty Medicare and Medicaid Community Action Program Cities, Schools, and Immigration Housing and Urban Development Immigration Act of 1965 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Expanding the Liberal State Legacies of the Great Society Failures and Achievements of the Great Society The Johnson treatment (LBJ Library) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Battle for Racial Equality Expanding Protests SNCC “Freedom Rides” Birmingham Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin stage sit-down strike after being refused service at an F. W. Woolworth luncheon counter, Greensboro, NC, 1960. (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Battle for Racial Equality 1961 Freedom Rides; Associated Press news feature, 1962. (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Battle for Racial Equality A National Commitment March on Washington The Battle for Voting Rights “Freedom Summer” Voting Rights Act © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Battle for Racial Equality The Changing Movement De jure and De facto Segregation Urban Violence Watts Riot © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Battle for Racial Equality Black Power Shift from Integration to Racial Distinction An Increasingly Divided Civil Rights Movement Malcolm X Nation of Islam © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

“Flexible Response” and the Cold War Diversifying Foreign Policy “Flexible Response” Bay of Pigs Confrontations with the Soviet Union Cuban Missile Crisis Johnson and the World Intervention in the Dominican Republic © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

“Flexible Response” and the Cold War The United States in Latin America, 1954-1996 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Agony of Vietnam The First Indochina War The Vietminh Geneva and the Two Vietnams Geneva Conference America and Diem Ngo Dinh Diem The National Liberation Front (NLF) Diem Overthrown © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Agony of Vietnam From Aid to Intervention The Quagmire Pressure for American Intervention Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Mounting Casualties The Quagmire Strategy of “Attrition” “Hearts and Minds” © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The War in Vietnam and Indochina, 1964-1975 The Agony of Vietnam The War in Vietnam and Indochina, 1964-1975 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Agony of Vietnam The War at Home Growing Opposition to the War War-Induced Inflation Antiwar poster (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Traumas of 1968 The Tet Offensive The Political Challenge Political and Psychological Defeat The Political Challenge Robert Kennedy The King and Kennedy Assassinations Riots The “Kennedy Legacy” Democratic National Convention © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Traumas of 1968 The Conservative Response George Wallace Nixon Victorious The Election of 1968 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.