1. 1960s

2. John F. Kennedy
New Frontier – Kennedy’s program to use the federal government to solve America’s problems
The Space Race
Pledged to put a man on the moon

3. Rights for the Disabled
Started the Special Olympics
Rights for Women
Equal Pay Act of 1963

4. Lyndon B. Johnson The “War on Poverty”
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
Jobs Corp
VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) – to help poor areas

5. “Great Society” – social reform legislation
Medicare and Medicaid
Medicare – hospital insurance
Medicaid – health benefits to low incomes, children, pregnant women, elderly, and disabled

6. Federal Aid to Education
Project Head Start
Aid to Cities
Housing and Urban Development Act
Immigration Act of 1965
Ended discriminatory “national origins” system

7. The Warren Court
Social change key in Supreme Court headed by Earl Warren.
Judicial activism – critics opposed this saying social issues should be left to Congress

8. Freedom of Speech
Yates v. United States – Communists have right to free speech.

9. Freedom of Speech
Tinker v. Des Moines – students have freedom of speech as long as it doesn’t disrupt classroom instruction.

10. Equal Representation
Baker v. Carr – reorganized state legislatures on principle of “one man, one vote.”

11. Freedom of Religion
Engle v. Vitale – outlawed school prayer in public schools.

12. Rights of Accused Persons
Gideon v. Wainwright – lawyer if you can’t afford one
Miranda v. Arizona – “Miranda” rights. Right to remain silent, to an attorney.

13. Vietnam War
Vietnam, a former French colony, was divided into two sections in 1954 by the Geneva Accords.

14. South Vietnam, led by Ngo Dinh Diem, was democratic and backed by the U.S.
North Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Minh, was communist and backed by the Soviet Union.

15. Growing American Involvement
Domino Theory - U.S. believed that if South Vietnam fell to the communists, the rest of the nations in Southeast Asia would as well.

16. Gulf of Tonkin
August 1964
U.S. military officials believed that the North Vietnamese torpedoed an American ship.
U.S. passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - allowed the U.S. to begin attacking Vietnam.

17. COmbat
Napalm – gasoline mixed with a gel that sticks to skin as it burns
Agent orange – destroyed vegetation
Vietcong - a communist guerilla group supported by North Vietnam.

18. My Lai
American destruction of the village of My Lai.

19. The Tet Offensive
In January of 1968, the Vietcong launched surprise attacks on cities throughout South Vietnam.
Turning point of the war

20. Nixon and the war
“Vietnamization” – South Vietnamese taking over the fighting
Draft ended
American troops return home

21. Dr. Henry Kissinger negotiated
Paris Peace Accords
January 1973
Dr. Henry Kissinger negotiated
April 1975, North Vietnam took Saigon – ending the war.

22. Home front Doves and Hawks Doves – people who wanted peace
Hawks – war supporters

23. Anti-war movement
May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard killed 4 anti-war protesters at Kent State University.

24. Consequences of the War
58,000 Americans killed
War extended into Cambodia
Khmer Rouge – murder of 2-4 million Cambodians
War Powers Act – limit president’s power to send troops overseas

25. WOmen Women’s Liberation Movement
Focused on economic and social equality
The Feminine Mystique – Betty Friedan. Challenged belief women just wanted to be housewives and mothers
National Organization of Women (NOW)

26. Goals
Education
Equal Opportunity in Education Act (Title IX) – no sexual discrimination in educational facilities.
Employment

27. Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Guarantees women the same rights as men
Opposed by women who preferred traditional roles
Phyllis Schlafly
Did not pass

28. Abortion
Roe v. Wade
Made abortions for the first three months of pregnancy legal.
SC ruled women had a constitutional right to privacy.