The Sassy Sixties

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The Sassy Sixties

• Reality in the Age of Innocence
• The Upheavals of a Generation

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The 1960 Election

• JFK A short biography
• Campaign
• Nomination and The New Frontier
• Kennedy-Nixon Debates
• Civil Rights and Missle Gap
• Victory by a slim margin
• Inauguration Speech

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The Cold War

• Castro U.S. Cuban Relations
• Covert Operations
• Bay of Pigs Debacle
• Vienna Conference with Khrushchev
• The Berlin Wall
• Vietnam and Escalation
• Cuban Missle Crisis

4
The Civil Rights Movement

• 60 Campaign Promises
• CORE and Freedom Rides
• Meredith and Ole Miss
• Birmingham
• Civil Rights Bill
• March on Washington

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Death in Dallas

• Shoring up the Democrats
• Lee Harvey Oswald
• Conspiracy?
• Warren Report
• Loss of Innocence

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1964

• Civil Rights Legislation
• Atlantic Convention
• All the way or Half Way
• Goldwater Extremism in defense of liberty
• Victory and its cost

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Civil Rights

• Freedom Summer in Mississippi
• Atlantic City Fraud
• CORE Activities
• SNCC
• San Francisco Bay Area
• Selma March for Voting rights
• Black Power rising

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Foreign Affairs

• The Cold War
• Tonkin Resolution
• Vietnam
• Rolling Thunder
• Search and destroy, body count, etc.
• Winning Hearts and Minds

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Black Power

• Legacy of Marcus Garvey
• The Nation of Islam
• Malcolm X
• Self-determination
• By whatever means necessary Cointelpro
• The Black Panthers for Self Defense
• Watts Riots Kerner Commission

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The Great Society

• Progressive Origins
• Big government war v. poverty
• Medicare, wages, jobs
• Education
• Air and water quality
• Transportation and Safety
• The Record skirmish

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1968

• Tet Offensive and Questions
• Peace Initiatives LBJs bombshell
• RFKs campaign
• Kings assassination and RFK
• Democrats in Disarray
• Nixon Law Order with Peace in Nam
• The Election

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Nixon and Vietnam

• Vietnamization
• Secret bombings of Cambodia
• Protest in U.S.
• Kent State and Unrest
• The Pentagon Papers
• American Public Opinion

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The Cold War

• Search for Détente
• Surprise visits to Beijing and Moscow
• SALT Treaty and the arms race
• Peace is at Hand
• Chile and The CIA
• The Middle East

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Nixon Domestic Agenda

• Stagflation
• Civil Rights
• Affirmative Action
• The Environment
• Other Initiatives
• Watergate debacle

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Watergate

• Nixons personality
• CREEP and Plumbers
• Watergate and 1972
• The Cover-up
• The Tapes
• Investigation
• Resignation