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Eisenhower
Election of 1952
Interstate Highway Act
McCarthyism Loyalty Oaths HUAC Hollywood Ten and
Blacklist Hiss v Nixon Ends when McCarthy goes
after army J. Edgar Hoover and the
FBI
Civil Rights
Jackie Robinson
Sweatt v Painter
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Earl Warren
Brown v Board of Education, Topeka Kansas
Little Rock 9
Civil Rights Act of 1957Strom Thurmond maintains the longest one person filibuster in US history
Sit ins and SNCC
Immigration: Operation Wetback
American Indians: terminate tribes as legal entities
Cold War
Eisenhower ends Korea
Beginning of Vietnam French were in Indochina but leave and
this creates a power vacuum Northern Vietnam becomes Communist,
Vietnam is divided along the 17th parallel
American puts in a democracy friendly leader, Diem
Nasser and the Suez Crisis
Eisenhower Doctrine Pledges aid to any Middle Eastern
country threatened by Communism
Castro and Cuba
Latin America
Sputnik
Creation of NASA
U-2 Incident
Election of 1960
Kennedy’s Inaugural AddressAnd so, my fellow Americans, ask not what
your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of
man.Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of
us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only
sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and
His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own
NASA and Landing on the Moon But why, some say, the moon? Why
does Rice play Texas?
Peace Corps
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis: nuclear chicken
1960s Civil Rights
Cesar Chavez and the UFW
Chicano Walkouts
Chicano Rights Movement
LULAC Mendez v
Westminster Supreme Court
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Birmingham Campaign
MLK: Letter from a Birmingham Jail I wish you had commended the Negro sit inners and demonstrators of Birmingham
for their sublime courage, their willingness to suffer and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation. One day the South will recognize its real heroes. They will be the James Merediths, with the noble sense of purpose that enables them to face jeering and hostile mobs, and with the agonizing loneliness that characterizes the life of the pioneer. They will be old, oppressed, battered Negro women, symbolized in a seventy two year old woman in Montgomery, Alabama, who rose up with a sense of dignity and with her people decided not to ride segregated buses, and who responded with ungrammatical profundity to one who inquired about her weariness: "My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest." They will be the young high school and college students, the young ministers of the gospel and a host of their elders, courageously and nonviolently sitting in at lunch counters and willingly going to jail for conscience' sake. One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Freedom Rides and CORE
March on Washington
Kennedy AssassinatedZapruder Film
Lyndon Baines Johnson Civil Rights Act of 1964-
creates the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Title VII War on Poverty Great Society and The
Other America Voting Rights Act of 1965
Freedom Summer
24th Amendment No poll taxes!
Black Power and Malcolm X Black Muslims and Elijah Muhammed Black Nationalism
Great Society Medicaid Medicare Bilingual programs Program Head Start Immigration and
Nationality Act of 1965- abolished “national origins” system
Vietnam Continues Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Ho Chi Minh Trail Tet Offensive MyLai Massacre Antiwar demonstrations
begin Teach ins, protest songs,
marches Dove or hawk?
Escalation
Counter culture movement
Hippies “Sexual
Revolution” and Dr. Alfred Kinsey
Manhattan Society and the Gay Rights Movement
Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today? Draft beer, not boys!
Hell no, we won’t go!
Eighteen today, dead tomorrow
Johnson lied, people died!
Eve of destruction- Barry McGuire
John Lennon - Give Peace A Chance
Fortunade Son - CCR
Other things in the 60s Woodstock Betty Friedan
and the women’s movement
Miranda v Arizona
1968 and the end of “happy hippies”
Monday Lecture Tuesday Lecture- quiz Wednesday Wordweb Thursday FRQ Friday Socratic Seminar (Ballot or Bullet) Monday- lecture 70s Tuesday- Lecture 70s- quiz Wednesday-Cold War Map Thursday-Lecture 80s Friday-Presidential bracket activity Monday- Lecture 90s Tuesday- Last exam!
Cold War Map Marshall Plan Truman Doctrine Iron Curtain Korean Conflict Suez Crisis 38th Parallel U-2 Incident Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis Détente Glasnost Vietnamization Gulf of Tonkin Ping Pong Diplomacy Afghanistan