1. Unit 25:The Turbulent 1960s
The antiwar movement and the counterculture Chapter 26, Section 2, Chapter 27, Section 1
[How did non-violent protests influence U.S. policy during the end of the Vietnam War? How did college students and musicians influence the counterculture?
Expanding movements for civil rights Chapter 25, Sections 2-3
[How was non-violent protest able to establish equal civil rights for all U.S. citizens? How and why did civil rights activists and protestors become more militant during the mid to late 1960s?
From the New Frontier to the Great Society Chapter 24, Sections 1-3
[How did Presidents Kennedy and Johnson use the federal government to advance civil rights, freedoms and equality for wider sections of U.S. citizenry?
Cold War confrontations: Asia, Latin America, and Europe Chapter 22, Sections 2-4, Chapter 24, Section 2, Chapter 29, Section 4
[How did the federal government react to threats to the U.S. from Asia and Europe?]
Beginning of Détente Chapter 28, Sections 1-3
[How President Nixon and his administration develop and maintain a peaceful relationship with China and the USSR?]

2. Essential Vocabulary Unit 25 Terms [all fair game for the next test]
The Great Society
Sit-ins [Greensboro Four]
SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]
Freedom Riders
James Meredith
1963 Birmingham Protests
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1965 Selma March for Freedom
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Watts Riots of 1965
The Kerner Commission
Black Power Movement
SDS [Students for a Democratic Society]
Counterculture [Hippies, Communes, Haight-Ashbury district]
New Frontier
Missile Gap
Televised Kennedy-Nixon Debates
Election of 1960
The Warren Court
“One Man, One Vote”
Flexible Response
The Alliance for Progress
JFK’s inaugural speech
The Peace Corps
The Bay of Pigs invasion
The Cuban Missile Crisis
November 22, 1963 Assassination
Johnson’s War on Poverty
Election of 1964