1. Unit 10— HELTER SKELTER The 1960s
Stuff to Know

2. Unit Lessons 1-Helter Skelter (overview)
2-JFK & LBJ: New Frontiers & Great Socities (Ch 28)
3-Of Dreams and Mountaintops: The Civil Rights Movement (Ch 29)
4-RE: Victor Charlie, Situation Normal… (Ch 30)
5-Lucy in the Sky w/ Diamonds: The Counterculture (Ch 31)

3. Possible Written Response Qs
The decade of the 60s was a tumultuous time of love and war, conservatism and change. Explain. Be sure to use at least three significant illustrative examples.
Explain the general approach used by Martin Luther King, Jr. and other like-minded Civil Rights activists, and how, after the death of King, the CRM took a different approach.

4. Ch 28—New Frontier & Great Society
Docs:
Sputnik & ICBMs
Kennedy-Nixon Debates
JFK’s Preoccupation with Russia
Flexible response
Defense spending
Cuba (Batista, Castro, revolution, Castro quote)
Dean Rusk quote, “Eyeball to eyeball”
Berlin & Khrushchev response
Assassination of Kennedy
Warren Commission
The Warren Court
LBJ’s mentor
Civil Rights Act, ‘64 & Voting Rights Act, ‘65
Miranda v. Arizona case

5. Ch 29—Civil Rights Movement
Docs:
Plessey V. Ferguson (1896)
EO 9981 (Truman)
Thurmond & Dixiecrats (‘48)
Emmett Till (what/ results/ attitude of Bryants & Milams)
Rosa Parks (intent!)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Little Rock Nine
Orval Faubus and his extreme anti-integration measure
SNCC at Woolworths in Greensboro, NC (sit-in)
Freedom Riders
Freedom Summer
James Meredith
MLK and his letter from a Birmingham Jail (why?)
Birmingham’s notoriety
March on Washington (’63)
Sixteenth St. Baptist Curch
24th Amendment
Civil Rights Act (‘64) and Voting Rights Act (‘65)
Prophesy of Mountaintop speech (when, where,why)
Black Power/ Black Panther P
Civil Disobedience

6. Ch 30--Vietnam Docs: John Kerry’s Senate Testimony 1971
Indochina and French
‘54 Geneva Accords
Ho Chi Minh & Ngo Dinh Diem
Eisenhower’s assessment of V
Containment & Dominoes
Gulf of Tonkin incident
Johnson’s escalation of troops
“search & destroy” & Rolling Thunder
Napalm and agent orange
The Difficulty of V
“Victor Charlie” (VC)
Tet Offensive
General Westmoreland
Credibility gap & Pentagon Pprs
Election of ‘68/ Nixon promised
Nixon’s southern strategy and silent majority
My Lai Massacre
Nixon’s expansion of war (why?) & public response
Kent State Massacre
Vietnamization
American withdrawal, and…

7. Ch 31—An Era of Social Change
Betty Friedan
NOW and ERA
***Roe v. Wade
Counterculture
Hippies
Tune in and drop out
Haight-Ashbury
Woodstock
Conservative Response
Bob Dylan, “The Times They are a Changin’”