1. 1960’s War, Society, & Politics

2. JFK 1960 Election JFK v. Nixon New Frontier – Health insurance for elderly – Anti poverty – Tax cuts – Peace Corps – Alliance for Progress – Civil rights bill – Power of image

3. LBJ November 22, 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald Carry on New Frontier Great Society 1964 election – Barry Goldwater – Ronald Reagan

4. Great Society Civil rights Poverty – Eradicate poverty Education Head Start Job Corps VISTA

5. Great Society Elementary and Secondary Education Act Medicare (old) Medicaid (poor) HUD Immigration Act of 1965

6. Vietnam (1954-1975) France, Japan, France controlled Indochina Truman and Eisenhower send money to France Ho Chi Minh- Free Vietnam, Vietminh 1954: Dien Bien Phu fellDien Bien Phu –End of French Indochina War, French lost Geneva Accords –Vietnam partitioned (17), communist north, democratic south under Diem 1956: South refused to hold elections –Ho Chi Minh would have won North Vietnamese invade S. Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh Trail) Vietcong (VC) Kennedy send advisors to South Vietnam 1963: President Diem (South) assassinated

9. Tonkin Gulf Resolution 1964 “Attacks” on U.S. destroyersU.S. destroyers War powers authorization Joint Resolution=“Blank Check”

10. Vietnam U.S. troop build up begins 1965 Domino Theory Strong support for war Ballad of the Green Berets (JFK) General Westmoreland ARVN 1967- 500,000 troops Operation Rolling Thunder

11. Troop Deployment

12. Vietnam VC used guerilla tactics War of attrition Keep support of the South Vietnamese, “hearts & minds”, failing Napalm Agent Orange Search and destroy missions, zippo raids

13. Napalm

14. Vietnam Homefront turning against war Living Room war, televised war Credibility gap U.S. Soldiers – Morale low – Drugs Drugs – Fragging

16. Vietnam Protest Draft Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight (CCR)(CCR) Blacks served disproportionate to whites – 20% died only made up 10% of population – MLK spoke out – Black Panthers

17. Vietnam Protest The New Left- sweeping change, gay rights, gender issues,war – Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Tom Hayden Participatory democracy Port Huron Statement – Free Speech Movement Berkeley “machine” Campus Activism – Columbia, Berkeley, Kent, dress codes, classes, Vietnam Doves vs. Hawks Selective Service Act 1967

18. Vietnam Protest Civil Disobedience – Go to Canada – Burn draft cards Teach-Ins Marches Music Hippies

19. Culture & Counterculture 1960s Idealism “Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out” Hippie Culture – Haight Ashbury Decline – Hendricks, Morrison, Joplin deaths – Violence – drugs

20. Changing Culture Art – psychedelic – pop art – Andy Warhol Rock music – The Beatles, Rolling Stones – Woodstock – political expression – Motown Changing attitudes – “do your own thing” – casual/permissive attitudes toward sex – violence – moral decay – long hair as rebellion

21. 1968 Tet Offensive Walter Cronkite Johnson doesn’t run MLK assassinated Robert Kennedy assassinated Democratic National Convention in Chicago Nixon Elected

22. 1968 Election Nixon – Silent Majority – Southern Strategy – Southern whites vote Republican Gene Mc Carthy (D) – Anti-war Hubert Humphrey (D) George Wallace – Segregationist – Law & order

23. Richard Nixon Vietnamization Henry Kissinger Invades Cambodia

24. My Lai

25. Kent State

26. Pentagon Papers (1971) Daniel Ellsberg –revealed U.S. govt. lied about Tonkin Gulf

27. “Peace with Honor” 1973: withdraw US troops POWs come homePOWs come home 1975: Saigon fellSaigon fell

28. Vietnam Timeline Recap 1945-1955 (Truman) – U.S. sends money to France – France out of Indochina 1955-1961 (Eisenhower) – Money and weapons and advisors to South Vietnam 1961-1964 (Kennedy) – Advisors 1964-1969 (Johnson) – Combat Troops 1969-1975 (Nixon) – Vietnamization, Cambodia Invaded 1975 – Saigon collapses, Vietnam unified

29. Vietnam Memorial Maya Ying Lin 1982 58,000 names

30. Results of Vietnam PTSD War Powers Act Cynicism Back lash against liberals Cambodia will fall to Communism

31. Conservative Response White backlash Richard Nixon J Edgar Hoover revolutionary terrorism Rise of the Religious Right part 1 Rise of the Religious Right Rise of the Religious Right part 2 Rise of the Religious Right