APUSH UNIT ELEVEN Chapter 29 Civil Rights Vietnam

APUSH UNIT ELEVEN Chapter 29: Civil Rights, Vietnam, and The Ordeal of Liberalism

The Warren Court 1953 -1969 n n n Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) Mapp v. Ohio (1961) Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Escobedo v. Illinois (1964) Miranda v. Arizona (1966) n n Yates v. United States (1957) Baker v. Carr (1962) Engel v. Vitale (1962) Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

Election of 1960 n Nixon n n 47 Ike’s VP “kitchen debate” Kennedy n n n 43 Catholic “Missile Gap”

Four Televised Debates

“Camelot”- JFK & Jackie

“New Frontier” n n n Education Health Care Urban Renewal Civil Rights Peace Corps Space Program

November 22, 1963 -Dallas, TX

n n n Lee Harvey Oswald… Jack Ruby…. Conspiracy Theories. . Chief Justice Earl Warren – Warren Commission… Govt. credibility…

Lyndon Baines Johnson – 36 th President

War on Poverty n n The Other America – 1962 – M. Harrington OEO –Office of Economic Opportunity n n Head Start Job Corps

Election of 1964 n LBJ n Barry Goldwater

“The Daisy Ad”

The Great Society n n n n Medicare Medicaid Immigration Laws… National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities DOT HUD Public Housing

The “Johnson Treatment”

Emmett Till n

Anniston, AL

1962 – Ole Miss n James Meredith

Birmingham - “Bull” Connor

1963 – George Wallace

Martin Luther King Jr. n “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” 1963

March on Washington – 1963 – “I Have a Dream”

1963 – Birmingham n n n 16 th Street Baptist Church KKK planted bomb went off just before Sunday School 4 killed, 22 wounded

Civil Rights Act - 1964

Selma to Montgomery - 1965

“Bloody Sunday”

th 24 Amendment and Voting Rights Act of 1965

Black Muslim Movement n Elijah Muhammed n Malcom X

“Black Power” – Stokely Carmichael n SNCC and CORE become more radical…

Black Panthers n 1965 Watts section of LA….

April 1968 - Memphis

1968 Civil Rights Act (Fair Housing Act)

“Flexible Response” n n Opposite of… “Brushfire Wars”… n n Congo Laos Vietnam Green Berets

Bay of Pigs n n 1961 CIA trained Cuban exiles…

Berlin Wall n n Kennedy … Nikita Kruschev…

“Ich bin ein Berliner!”

Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962

Vietnam – The 10, 000 Day War n n n Phase 1: Phase 2: Phase 3: A Television War A Proxy War A Limited War

Vietnam n n n Buildup under Kennedy…”advisers” “strategic hamlets”… Ngo Dinh Diem

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution n A “blank check” to protect U. S. interests in Vietnam

Who did we fight? n n North Vietnamese Army – Vietminh (NVA) led by Ho Chi Minh Vietcong (VC or NLF) – south Vietnamese peasant farmers/guerrillas n “Charlie”

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Operation Rolling Thunder n n Agent Orange Napalm

Tet Offensive - January 1968

1968 n n n Tet Offensive LBJ withdraws from presidential race Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated Race Riots Student Demonstrations Robert Kennedy assassinated

Election of 1968 n n n Democrats- Hubert Humphrey VP to LBJ Liberal Democratic Convention in Chicago… Richard Daley

n n n American Independent Party – George Wallace Segregationist Resentment against DC “pointy headed liberals”

n n n Republicans – Richard Nixon “peace with honor” “law and order”

APUSH UNIT ELEVEN Chapter 30: The Crisis of Authority

Students for a Democratic Society – New Left n n Tom Hayden Free Speech Movement Berkeley

Peoples Park

Counterculture

Hippies

Weathermen

“Hawks” vs “Doves”

AIM

Cesar Chavez

The Feminine Mystique

NOW

Roe v. Wade

Earth Day

Richard Nixon n n 37 th President Secretive and suspicious…

Henry Kissinger n n n National Security Advisor (1 st term) Secretary of State (2 nd Term) With Nixon…

Vietnam n n n “peace with honor” Vietnamization… Nixon Doctrine…

n n Bombings of NVA strongholds in Cambodia & Laos Tries to cut Ho Chi Minh Trail

Kent State n 1970

The Pentagon Papers

My Lai Massacre (1968)

n n n Kissinger…. . Massive bombing of North Vietnam… Paris Accords (1973)

Fall of Saigon – April 1975

Khmer Rouge – Pol Pot - Cambodia

Detente n Nixon travels to China and meets with Mao Zedong…

Detente n Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT I)…

Nixon’s Domestic Policy n n Revenue sharing (New Federalism) 1970 recesssion …stagflation Keynesian economics 90 day wage & price freeze

Southern Strategy n n n Nixon appeals to the “silent majority”… Tries to delay integration… Authorizes VP Spiro Agnew…

Election of 1972

Watergate n Background: n n n Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) “plumbers” “enemies list”

Watergate n n n June 1972… Judge John Sirica… Washington Post Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein…

Senator Howard Baker – (R) TN n “the primary thesis is this, what did the President know and when did he know it? ”

More Watergate n n John Dean…. Nixon Tapes… Saturday Night Massacre United States v. Nixon (1974)

Meanwhile in 1973 n n n VP Spiro Agnew…. War Powers Act… Roe v. Wade… Yom Kippur War… OPEC Embargo… Gas “Crunch”

n n Archibald Cox… House begins impeachment hearings…

August 9, 1974