Notes for U.S. History class in the 1960's

1. THE 60’s: Chapters 20, 21 and 22 Name:
Election of 1960
Televised Debates Affects Votes
Kennedy and Civil Rights
The Camelot Years
The Kennedy Mystique
The Best and the Brightest
A New Military Policy
Defining a Military Strategy
Crisis over Cuba
Cuban Dilemma
Cuban Exiles
Bay of Pigs
Bay of Pigs
Aftermath of the Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK and Khrushchev Take the Heat
Crisis over Berlin
Berlin Crisis
Searching for Ways to Ease Tensions
Section 2: The New Frontier
Promise of Progress
4 Problems JFK Addressed
1. Economy
2. Poverty

2. 3. Race to the Moon
4. Domestic Problems
Tragedy in Dallas
4 Days in November
Lee Harvey Oswald
Section 3: The Great Society
Johnson’s Domestic Agenda
War on Poverty
1964 Election
Great Society
1. Education
2. Healthcare
3. Housing
4. Immigration
5. Environment
6. Consumer Protection
Warren Court
Chapter 21: Civil Rights
Section 1: Taking on Segregation
Segregation System
Segregation Continues into the 20th
Century
Developing Civil Rights Movements
Challenging Segregation in the Courts
School Desegregation
Crisis in Little Rock
Montgomery Bus Boycott
MLK
Emmett Till

3. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Section 2: The Triumphs of a Crusade
Freedom Riders
Integrating Ole Miss
Birmingham
JFK Takes a Stand
“I Have a Dream”
Johnson Carries on Work
Freedom Summer
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Section 2: Challenges and Changes in the Movement
Northern Segregation
Urban Violence Erupts
Malcolm X
“Black Power”
Black Panthers
Assassination
Assassination
Reaction to King’s Death
Results of the Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 22: Vietnam War
Debate Question:
Beginnings
Ho Chi Minh
France Battles for Vietnam

4. Vietminh Drives out the French
Elections Cancelled
Vietcong
JFK and Vietnam
Johnson Expands the Conflict
South Grows More Unstable
Tonkin Gulf
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Section 2: US Involvement and Escalation
Johnson Increases US involvement
MORE Troops!
Fighting in the Jungle
Tunnels of the Vietcong
Vietnam Weather and Conditions
War of Attrition
Battle for “Hearts and Minds”
Exposing the Vietcong
Sinking Morale
Section 3: A Nation Divided
Draft
African Americans in Vietnam
Women Join the Ranks
College Students
War Divides the Nation
Section 4: 1968: A Tumultuous Year

5. Tet Offensive: A Surprise Attack
Election of 1968
Death of Robert Kennedy
Nixon
Section 5: The End o the War and Its Legacy
President Nixon and Vietnamization
Silent Majority
My Lai
Violence on Campus
Pentagon Papers
End of the Longest War
Fall of Saigon
Painful Legacy
Veterans Cope Back Home
Results of the Vietnam War