1. Chapter 26 Lives Changed 1961-1968
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2. New Voices, New Authorities
Though it was formative for many, the Civil Rights Movement was only one of many challenges to American culture in the 1960s.
Small political movements burst onto a larger stage
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3. Books, Films, Music Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Michael Harrington’s The Other America
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove
The music of Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, and Jimi Hendrix
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4. The Student Movement of the 1960s
Students for a Democratic Society
Battle the “Establishment”
Free Speech Movement
University of California at Berkeley, 1964
Mario Savio
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5. Camelot, the White House, and Dallas — The Kennedy Administration
John F. Kennedy, the second youngest president
A new generation was in charge
“Camelot”
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6. The New Frontier Kennedy’s domestic program
Kennedy slow to move on civil rights
Equal Pay Act
Increased funding for NASA
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7. Religion, Education, and the Courts
Engel v. Vitale
The Supreme Court declared that schools in New York State could not open the school day with prayer.
Many Americans, Protestants and Catholics, claimed that the court was “legislating God out of the public schools.”
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8. Kennedy’s Foreign Policy — From the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs, Cuba, April 17, 1961
1,500 exiles invade
500 killed, the rest surrender
October the country stood on the brink of nuclear war
Kennedy chooses a blockade
Soviets remove missiles
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9. Dallas, Conspiracies, and Legacies
Kennedy Assassination
Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas
Warren Commission - Investigated the assassination
Found that Oswald acted alone
Conspiracy theories
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10. The Coming of Lyndon B. Johnson
Born in poverty in Texas
Graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College
Democratic leader of the Senate
“The Johnson Treatment”
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11. The War on Poverty and the Great Society
LBJ’s “War on Poverty”
Job Corps
VISTA
Medicare & Medicaid
Federal aid to education
Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts
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12. Americans in Poverty MAP 26-1, Americans in Poverty
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13. The Impact of the Voting Rights Act
MAP 26-2, The Impact of the Voting Rights Act
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14. Vietnam The war in Vietnam would overshadow the Great Society programs
LBJ inherited a mess in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Viet Cong in South Vietnam ambushed U.S. troops
LBJ - limited war
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15. The War in Vietnam MAP 26-3, The War in Vietnam
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16. 1968
Fall Gen. William Westmoreland announced that “half of the enemy’s forces were no longer capable of combat.”
Jan the Viet Cong launched the Tet Offensive
Weakened American public support for the war
MLK, Jr. assassinated in Memphis
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