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CHAPTER 29

• The Turbulent Years
• 1960 1968
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• "We're all Africans in different shades of
  color."  Dolores Huerta
• "There is nothing but a lack of social vision to
  prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every
  American citizen whether he be a hospital worker,
  laundry worker, maid, or day laborer." Martin
  Luther King, Jr. Where Do We Go From Here?

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\ Be Angry at the Sun 1941  "That public men
publish falsehoodsIs nothing new. That America
must acceptLike the historical republics
corruption and empireHas been known for years. .
. .Be angry at the sun for settingIf these
things anger you. Watch the wheel slope and
turn,They are all bound on the wheel, these
people, those warriors.This republic, Europe,
Asia. Let boys want pleasure, and menStruggle
for power, and women perhaps for fame,And the
servile to serve a Leader and the dupes to be
duped.Yours is not theirs."  Robinson Jeffers
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the
final right to the manger even though he may have
lain there for a very long time. I do not admit
that right. I do not admit for instance, that a
great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of
America or the black people of Australia. I do
not admit that a wrong has been done to these
people by the fact that a stronger race, a
higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to
put it that way, has come in and taken their
place."  Sir Winston Churchill
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Chapter Review

• Define the meaning of John F. Kennedys New
  Frontier
• describe the successes and failures of his
  administration.
• Explain the events surrounding the Cuban Missile
  Crisis of 1962.
• Explain the historical significance of the 1963
  March on Washington.
• Briefly describe the presidency of Lyndon
  Johnson, and identify some of the domestic
  programs that comprised his Great Society.
• Briefly explain the shift from conciliation to
  confrontation in the civil rights movement of the
  mid-1960s.
• Describe some of the reasons for the shift in the
  national mood from hopeful and optimistic to
  angry and suspicious by the end of 1968.

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Concepts

• John Glenn
• Fidel Castro, Bay of Pigs, October 62 missile
  crisis, U-2
• Freedom Riders
• Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez
• Betty Friedan
• Fannie Lou Farmer, Stokely Carmichael, Black
  Power
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Lyndon B. Johnson, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, War
  on Poverty
• Students for a Democratic Society, Tom Hayden
• Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Black
  Panthers, Huey Newton
• General Wm Westmoreland, Tet Offensive
• Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy
• Berkeley in the 1960s, Mario Savio, Free Speech
  Movement
• Jefferson Airplane, CSNY, Hendrix, Clapton,
  Beatles, Stones, Bob Dylan

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I. Early Tests

• JFK increases Social Security, establishes Peace
  Corps, and sets out on space race
• First crisis occurs in failed overthrow of Castro
  at Cubas Bay of Pigs
• Soviet Union erects Berlin Wall
• Freedom Riders desegregate transportation
• JFK sees economy as first priority Walter Heller
  cuts income tax

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II. Social and Political Challenges

• James Meredith enters University of Mississippi
• Cuban Missile Crisis frightens world in October
  1962
• Soviets build nuclear missile silos, and Kennedy
  orders them out
• JFK holds hard line, and Soviets give in
• Vietnam involves Kennedy and America

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III. The Rights Revolution Early Steps

• Martin Luther King, Jr. galvanizes civil rights
  movement
• Birmingham boycotters gain sympathy of white
  Americans
• March of Washington provides forum for MLKs I
  Have a Dream speech
• Feminists also change country

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IV. Tragedy and Transition

• Kennedy assassination shocks nation
• James Garrison conspiracy theory, role of CIA
• Lyndon Johnson replaces fallen president
• LBJ accomplishes much in first months
• LBJ wins landslide victory in 1964
• War on Poverty
• Vietnam The only woman I really loved was the
  Great Society and I lost her for that bitch of
  a war, Vietnam. LBJ

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The Election of 1964 Republican Convention in
SF
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V. The Great Society

• Johnson declares war on poverty, with VISTA,
  Head Start, and food stamps
• Medicare and Medicaid are created
• Immigration laws are relaxed

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VI. The Expanding War

• Aiming for containment, Johnson sends American
  troops to Vietnam in 1965 -- EBs Ernie
  Dominguez, Bob Ray
• University campuses erupt in anti-war protests
• UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio

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Vietnam War
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VII. The Rights Revolution Center Stage

• Major legislation improves civil rights
• 1964 Civil Rights Act, 1965 Voting Rights Act
• Watts riots shock nation in 1968
• Black Muslims and Black Panthers arise as
  alternative to MLKs teachings
• Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge
  Cleaver
• Feminists push for Equal Rights Amendment
• Hippies and the counterculture refuse to get
  involved

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The Struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment
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VIII. A Divided Nation

• Tet Offensive convinces many Americans Vietnam is
  lost cause
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• LBJ steps down, and Democrats jockey for
  nomination
• Both Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are
  assassinated, 1968
• Democratic convention brings discord in Chicago
• CSNY Chicago, and Ohio
• Republicans choose Nixon, who wins narrow victory
• Herb Klein, press secretary

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Vietnam War
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Election of 1968