1. The Stormy Sixties

3. Fidel Castro

4. Bay of Pigs - 1961 1400 CIA trained Cuban exiles…
JFK cancelled air support….
Almost all killed or captured …

5. Berlin Wall

7. Cuban Missile Crisis

10. Thirteen Days in October…
JFK blockades Cuba…
“Hot Line”…

11. “New Frontier”

12. “Bobby Kennedy”

13. November 22, 1963

15. Lyndon Baines Johnson: 1964-1969

16. Election of 1964

17. LBJ “Great Society” “War on Poverty” Medicare Medicaid
Education/Head Start
“War on Poverty”

18. Tent Cities of Fayette & Haywood Counties

19. Greensboro, NC

20. 1960 –Nashville Lunch Counters
Began at Walgreens….
Protestors are verbally and physically abused then arrested yet…

21. Diane Nash
Chicago Native – went to college at Fisk University (Nashville)…
Nashville Lunch Counters
Founder of SNCC
Freedom Riders
Selma March

23. 1961 – Freedom Riders
CORE…

25. 1962 – Ole Miss
James Meredith

26. Birmingham Police – Eugene “Bull” Connor

28. Martin Luther King Jr. – Letter from Birmingham Jail
1963 Demonstrations in Birmingham, AL
Southern Christian Leadership Conference

29. 1963 – Birmingham 16th Street Baptist Church
KKK planted bomb went off just before Sunday School
4 killed, 22 wounded

30. 1963 – George Wallace

31. 1963 “I Have a Dream”
March on Washington
200,000

32. Civil Rights Act

33. 24th Amendment

34. Selma to Montgomery

35. “Bloody Sunday”

36. Voting Rights Act

37. Stokely Carmichael – “Black Power”

38. Malcom X – Black Muslims

39. Bobby Seale – Black Panthers

40. Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis – 1968
Led to Civil Rights Act of 1968

41. Alex Haley

42. Counterculture
“Hippies”
Protest Vietnam War

45. Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War

46. 1st Phase – Colonial Independence
French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)….
Ho Chi Minh

47. France was defeated by Ho Chi Minh at Dien Bien Phu
Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel
Geneva Accords…
Ngo Dinh Diem claimed control of the South
The settlement reflected the U.S. policy of “containment”

48. 2nd Phase – American Involvement
This phase originated with “Ike” and JFK but was intensified under Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)
Gulf of Tonkin Incident

49. Who Did We Fight?
Viet Minh - (NVA) Ho Chi Minh’s communist North Vietnamese Army
Viet Cong – (VC) South Vietnamese communist guerrilla fighters – commonly called “Charlie” by U.S. soldiers
Farmers by day and guerillas at night grossly underestimated by the U.S. commanders

50. Ho Chi Minh Trail

51. A “Living Room War”
Americans watched the war unfold on their TV each night…
Body counts…

52. American atrocities at My Lai …
Weapons like napalm and Agent Orange, which devastated the environment