1. The 1960s

2. John F. Kennedy Election of 1960 Domestic Policy New Frontier Programs

3. Kennedy and Foreign Policy
Bay of Pigs Invasion (1961)
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Flexible Response

4. The Kennedy Assassination
November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas

5. Lyndon B. Johnson War on Poverty Election of 1964
Great Society Reforms
Results:

7. Civil Rights in the 60s Civil Rights Acts of 1964 & 1965
MLK and “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
March on Washington (1963)
March to Montgomery (1965)
Voting Rights Act of 1965

8. Malcolm X, Race Riots, and Black Panthers

9. The Warren Court Criminal Justice Reapportionment
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Reapportionment
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Freedom of Expression and Privacy
Yates v. United States (1957)
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

10. Social Revolutions and Cultural Movements
Student Movement and the New Left
Counterculture
Sexual Revolution
Women’s Movement
Anti-war Movement

11. Vietnam War to 1969 Beginnings and build-up under Kennedy
Tonkin Gulf Resolution
Escalation
Controversy and the credibility gap
Hawks vs. doves
Tet Offensive
End of escalation

12. 1968 Internal conflicts over war, race, and generation gap
RFK assassinated, MLK jr. assassinated
Election of 1968
Democratic convention in Chicago
George Wallace and white backlash
Richard Nixon
Results