1. The New Frontier & The Great Society
Ch. 20

2. The Election of 1960 John F. Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon
First ever Presidential debates (TV)
Kennedy much more charismatic
Kennedy big on civil rights
Kennedy and Johnson win

3. Campaign Buttons 1960

4. John F. Kennedy

8. Kennedy’s Inauguration

9. The Cold War Kennedy advocates a flexible response
Creates Peace Corps to help fight Communism in third world.
Large increase in defense spending, creating the Green Berets, and other special forces

10. Kennedy and Khrushchev

11. The Berlin Wall

12. Problems in Cuba Eisenhower makes a plan to get rid of Castro.
Cuba signs pact with Soviet Union.
Kennedy decides to follow through on Eisenhower’s plan.
Meets with exiles from Cuba

13. Kennedy with Cuban Exiles

14. Fidel Castro

17. Bay Of Pigs Invasion
America trains exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro
Attack takes place April 17, 1961
Was a huge failure
Kennedy looks really bad.

18. Cuban Missile Crisis Soviets see a weakness in US.
Khrushchev orders missiles placed in Cuba.
World sat on brink of Nuclear War.
Kennedy warns country to build fallout shelters.

21. Kennedy orders blockade Soviet ships show up, then back off.
Made a deal:
US moves missiles out of Turkey
Soviets get missiles out of Cuba

22. Robert Kennedy

23. Space Program Kennedy promises to get ahead of the Soviets
Spends lots of extra money to get the program going.
Promises to get an American on the moon!

24. Yury Gagarin

25. Alan Shepard: First American in Space (5/25/61)

26. John Glenn: First to Orbit the Earth (1962)

27. Kennedy Assassination

45. Texas School Book Depository

56. Lyndon Johnson is sworn in

61. Kennedy’s Funeral Procession

64. LBJ as President Was a master politician
Urged Congress to pass Civil Rights bill
Passes in 1964
Had a vision of the U.S. as “The Great Society”
End poverty and racial injustice
Idolized FDR

66. New Legislation Elementary and Secondary Education Act
Help schools buy new books and supplies
Medicare & Medicaid
Hospital & medical insurance for over 65
HUD
Low rent housing

67. Immigration Act of 1965 Ends quotas on nationalities
More immigration from places other than Europe
Economic Opportunity Act
Creates VISTA, Project Head Start, Job corp. training program, and Community Action programs

68. The Warren Court Bans prayer in school Reapportionment Mapp v. Ohio
Illegally gathered evidence
Gideon v. Wainright
Free legal counsel
Miranda v. Arizona
Rights must be read

69. Earl Warren

75. Sirhan Sirhan

77. July 20, 1969

78. Neil Armstrong

84. Fads of the early 60’s

85. Fads of the Late 60’s

86. Other Headliners

98. Woodstock 1969
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
The Who

99. The Greatful Dead

108. 1961
Mantle & Maris 54 61

109. Willie Mays

110. Hank Aaron

111. Jim Brown

112. Gayle Sayers

113. Super Bowl I 1967

114. The Civil Rights Movement 1945-1970
Chapter 21

115. Beginnings Segregation was a way of life WWII Jackie Robinson
Needed laborers
Jackie Robinson
NAACP pushes harder to end segregation

117. Whites Only Waiting Room

120. Jackie Robinson

121. Larry Doby

122. Ending Segregation Begin with the schools
Spend-10x as much on white kids
Thurgood Marshall heads the group
Wins 29/32 cases in Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Repeals Plessy v. Ferguson

123. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

124. Reaction Schools resist Eisenhower orders it done quickly in 1955
Little Rock forces his hand (1957)
Central High School in Little Rock
The Little Rock Nine
Governor refuses to desegregate

125. School Desegregation Little Rock Nine

128. 1962

129. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man.
Boycotted city busses for almost 1 year
Martin Luther King was selected to head the boycott.

130. Cont’d White Citizens Council formed
Supreme Court rules segregation on buses was illegal in 1956

131. Rosa Parks

132. Rosa Parks

133. Violence towards Blacks
Emmett Till was lynched (1955)
Bus bombings
Medgar Evers murdered (1963)
Police brutality

138. Home Grown Movements Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Began in 1957
Win over African American’s from all ages and all areas
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Viewed changes as too slow

140. Civil Disobedience Sit-ins
First done by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
Began being televised
Freedom riders
Hoped to make Kennedy act

142. Burned Bus in Anniston, Alabama

143. Governor George Wallace

144. March on Washington August 28, 1963
100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
King’s “I have a dream” speech
Two weeks later 4 young girls killed in church bombing

149. Lyndon Johnson and Black Leaders

150. Freedom Summer CORE and SNCC leaders head south to go register voters
A number of workers are killed.
Klansmen begin a violence campaign

153. Malcolm X Whites were the cause of black problems Separate from Whites
Preached armed resistance to white authority
2/21/65 He is shot and killed in Harlem by one of his former followers

154. Malcolm X

156. Stokely Carmichael Black Power Urged violence for equality
Focus on A.A.’s quit trying to recruit whites
Leads to the Black Panthers
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

157. Stokely Carmichael
(Black Panthers)

162. The Temptations

163. The Drifters

166. April 4, 1968
                                                                                                                     

172. King’s Gravesite

173. Worked long hours, very low pay, no benefits at all!
Mexican-Americans
Worked in jobs no one else wanted to do
Worked long hours, very low pay, no benefits at all!
Lived in cramped farmhouses

177. UFW Unions Cesar Chavez emerges as the leader for better lives.
Works for better working conditions, housing, etc…
Workers become citizens to be able to vote
First office in Fresno!

181. American Indian Movement
Occupy Alcatraz from
Occupy Wounded Knee 1973

187. Gloria Steinem