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Why Did Things Get So Screwed Up? Events from 1960 - 1970 Why Did Things Get So Screwed Up?

What Happened to Set the Stage for the 1960’s McCarthyism Fear of Nuclear Annihilation Conformity Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement Rock and Roll Sputnik and Federal Funding for Education

1960: Election of John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier

1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

1963: March on Washington

1963: Assassination of JFK

1964: LBJ Proclaims the “Great Society”

1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Vietnam Becomes a WAR!

1965-1970’s: War Protests

1968: TET Offensive

Television War • At the beginning of the war, General William Westmoreland kept declaring that the enemy is on the brink of defeat • TV news reports showed a different story. Every night Americans saw young men dying and wounded and began to doubt the reports.

1968: LBJ Decides Not to Seek Re-election LBJ withdraws from presidential race Robert Kennedy announces candidacy for president Anti-war candidates in Democratic party win primaries against LBJ’s vice-president Hubert Humphrey Hope for an early end to war

1968: Martin Luther King Shot

1968: Robert Kennedy Shot

1968: Democratic Convention

By 1968, Polls Showed the Country Was Split Down the Middle Hawks Wanted the US to continue the war Doves Wanted US to withdraw from the war

VP Spiro Agnew Quotes A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4H Club the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history. This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English; it is a problem for the Department of Justice. Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

5/4/1970: Kent State Massacre Students held anti-war rally in response to Nixon’s expansion of the war into Cambodia National Guard tear gassed them and then fired into the crowd killing four people.