The Turbulent Years, 1960 1968

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CHAPTER 29

• The Turbulent Years, 1960 - 1968

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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

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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
• Lyndon Johnson replaces fallen president
• LBJ accomplishes much in first months
• LBJ wins landslide victory in 1964

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The Election of 1964
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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
• University campuses erupt in anti-war protests

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Vietnam War
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VII. The Rights Revolution Center Stage

• Major legislation improves civil rights
• Watts riots shock nation in 1968
• Black Muslims and Black Panthers arise as
  alternative to MLKs teachings
• 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
• LBJ steps down, and Democrats jockey for
  nomination
• Both Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are
  assassinated
• Democratic convention brings discord
• Republicans choose Nixon, who wins narrow victory

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Vietnam War
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Election of 1968
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