The Stormy Sixties Outline

The Stormy Sixties Outline

Kennedy’s Mystique

Brought together the best and the brightest-

Robert Kennedy-

Robert McNamara-

Kennedy-

Called on Americans to be New Pioneers

A-

B-

Peace Corps-

a- Program

b- Giving assistance to

c- 1968—

1960’s- Recession

A-

1961-

Proposals sent to Congress called for increased spending

A-Department of

B- Increase minimum wage to:

C- Extended unemployment

Military Policy

Flexible Response-

New Frontier at Home

April 12, 1961

A-

B-

NASA

Created new launch facility-

Mission Control Center-

July 20, 1969

Rumblings in Europe

June 1961-

Khrushchev-

Kennedy-

August 13, 1961-

Bay of Pigs

March 1960- Eisenhower gave the CIA permission to secretly train

Kennedy learned of

April 17, 1961-

A-

B-

C-

Secretary of State--- “look like fools to our friends, rascals to our enemies, and

Cuban Missile Crisis

Nikita Khrushchev-

1962-

October 14

A- Photographs taken by American planes revealed

Kennedy warned that America would not tolerate offensive nuclear weapons in Cuba

A-

6days—possibility of nuclear war

A-

U.S prepared to Quarantine Cuba

A-

Soviet ships suddenly stopped

Few days later-

A- Khrushchev offered to remove the missiles in return

U.S. also secretly agreed to

Hot Line- 1963

Limited Test Ban Treaty- 1963

Struggle for Civil Rights

Freedom Riders- 1960

A- End segregation in facilities

B-Riots

C-Federal Marshals

Martin Luther King Jr.

Voter Education Project-

Integration-Ole Miss

Spring 1963-

Birmingham, Alabama

A-

B-

C-

Kennedy addresses nation- June 11, 1963

August 1963-

A-

B-

C-

D-

E-

F-

Assassination of JFK

November 22, 1963

A-

B- Went to mend political

C- Parade—

D- In the front-

Lee Harvey Oswald- Description

Warren Commission-

1979- Reinvestigation concluded that Oswald was part of conspiracy

LBJ-Brand on the Presidency

LBJ- Profile

Entered politics

FDR-

Master at behind the

Johnson’s Agenda

1964-

Civil Rights Act of 1964-

A- Prohibited discrimination based on

B- Federal government had

C- Equal Employment

1964- Presidential Election- Johnson Battles Goldwater

Democrats:

Republicans:

Johnson wins 485 to 52

A-

B-

C-

The Great Society Legislation

1964-

Left White House in 1969

Economic Opportunity Act-

A-

B-

C-

D-

F-

Big 4 Legislation:

A-

B-

C-

D-

Department of Housing and Urban Development

A-

B-240,000 units of

C-Helping low and moderate income families

Immigration Act of 1935

A- Opened the door for

Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965

A-

Water Quality Act of 1965

A- Required states

B- Search out the

Black Power

Freedom Summer-

A- King Resumed

B-Johnson addresses

Voting Rights Act of 1965

A-

B-

24th Amendment

A-

Malcolm X- Description

Black Panther Party

Black Power-

A-

B-

C-

Martin Luther King Jr. Dies

A-

B-

C-

D-

E-

F-

Combating Communism in 2 Hemispheres

North Vietnamese

Guerillas-

Attacked an American air base

A-

Johnson Retaliates

A-Bombing raids

B- U.S.

C-March 1965-

End of 1965-

Enemy matched every

Johnson raised military stakes

A-

Israel

Six Day War- June 1967

Israel-

Sinai

Golan

Gaza

West Bank of

Resentful Palestinian Arabs

A-

B-

Vietnam

World Opinion Hostile

A-

B-

Antiwar Demonstrations

A-Military

B-Slaughter pen/

C-Thousands of draft

D-Publically burned

Quotes: Hell no,

Hey, Hey, LBJ,

Television

A- Images

B- Senator

C- Public felt that they

D- Defense Secretary

Longest and most unpopular foreign war in nation’s history

A- Casualties

B- Ripping apart society/

C- FBI- counterintelligence against

Tet, 1968

January 1968-

A- Communists offensive

B-27 South

C-Victory

Johnson Challenged in own party-

March 31, 1968-

1968 Presidential Election

June 5, 1968

A-Kennedy

B-California

C-Arab

Democrats-

Republicans-

3rd Party-

Cultural Upheaval

Negative attitude- authority

Religion lost grip-Protestant Denominations

Cultural Divide

A-

B-

Radical Political Rebels

A-

B-

C-

Sexual Revolution

A-

Gay Rights-Mattachine Society

A-

B-

C-