1. Why Did Things Get So Screwed Up?
Events from
Why Did Things Get So Screwed Up?

2. What Happened to Set the Stage for the 1960’s
McCarthyism
Fear of Nuclear Annihilation
Conformity
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
Rock and Roll
Sputnik and Federal Funding for Education

3. 1960: Election of John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier

4. 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis

5. 1963: March on Washington

6. 1963: Assassination of JFK

7. 1964: LBJ Proclaims the “Great Society”

8. 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Vietnam Becomes a WAR!

9. ’s: War Protests

10. 1968: TET Offensive

11. Television War
• At the beginning of the war, General William Westmoreland kept declaring that the enemy is on the brink of defeat
• TV news reports showed a different story. Every night Americans saw young men dying and wounded and began to doubt the reports.

12. 1968: LBJ Decides Not to Seek Re-election
LBJ withdraws from presidential race
Robert Kennedy announces candidacy
for president
Anti-war candidates in Democratic party win primaries against LBJ’s vice-president Hubert Humphrey
Hope for an early end to war

13. 1968: Martin Luther King Shot

14. 1968: Robert Kennedy Shot

15. 1968: Democratic Convention

16. By 1968, Polls Showed the Country Was Split Down the Middle
Hawks
Wanted the US to continue the war
Doves
Wanted US to withdraw from the war

17. VP Spiro Agnew Quotes
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4H Club the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English; it is a problem for the Department of Justice. 
Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

18. 5/4/1970: Kent State Massacre
Students held anti-war rally in response to Nixon’s expansion of the war into Cambodia
National Guard tear gassed them and then fired into the crowd killing four people.