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Eisenhower – Domestic Policy

Eisenhower – Domestic Policy. Civil Rights Brown v. Board of Education Montgomery Bus Boycott Little Rock, Arkansas Sit-ins & SNCC Cold War at Home McCarthyism – Rise and Fall “New” American Christianity Interstate Highway System National Science Education Act Farewell Speech.

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Eisenhower – Domestic Policy

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  1. Eisenhower – Domestic Policy • Civil Rights • Brown v. Board of Education • Montgomery Bus Boycott • Little Rock, Arkansas • Sit-ins & SNCC • Cold War at Home • McCarthyism – Rise and Fall • “New” American Christianity • Interstate Highway System • National Science Education Act • Farewell Speech

  2. Eisenhower – Foreign Policy • Massive Retaliation & Brinksmanship • New Look • Korean War • Communism & Domino Theory • Communists Aggression • Vietnam • Suez • Cuba • Sputnik • U-2 Incident

  3. Kennedy – Foreign Policy • Flexible Response • Peace Corps • Special Forces • Bay of Pigs • Berlin Wall • Cuban Missile Crisis • NASA

  4. Kennedy – Domestic Policy • Domestic • Civil Rights • Freedom Rides • University of Mississippi • Assassination • Lee Harvey Oswald • Warren COmmission

  5. Johnson – Domestic Policy • Great Society • Office of Economic Opportunity • Operation Head Start • Job Corps • Neighborhood Youth Corps • Upward Bound • Model Cities Program

  6. Johnson – Domestic Policy • Department of Housing and Urban Development • Department of Transportation • Medicare • Medicaid • Elementary and Secondary Education Act • National Endowment for the Arts

  7. Johnson – Domestic Policy • Water Quality Act • Clean Air Act • “Truth in Lending” • “Truth in Advertising” • Immigration Reform • Civil Rights • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Civil Rights Act of 1968

  8. Johnson – Foreign Policy • Vietnam • Growing involvement • Parties to War • USS Maddox • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Rolling Thunder • Pacification • Escalation • Tet Offensive

  9. 1968 • MLKJ Assassination • RFK Assassination • Race Riots • LBJ Quits • DNC Convention & Riots in Chicago • Nixon, Nixon, Nixon

  10. Nixon - Vietnam • “Peace with Honor” • Vietnamization • My Lai Massacre • Cambodia • Bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail • Protests • Kent State Shootings • Pentagon Papers • Paris Peace Accords

  11. Nixon – Détente • “Cooling off” • “Opening” China • Bipolar to Tripolar • Soviet Union • SALT (Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty)

  12. Nixon - Domestic • Inflation • 90 Day Wage & Price Freeze • Created EPA • Reelected in ’72 • OPEC Embargo – Yom Kippur War • 26th Amendment

  13. Nixon – Watergate • Break-in and DNC HDQ • Members of Creep implicated • Continued Investigation (>1 Year) • Senate • Washington Post • Bob Woodward & Carl Berstein • Nixon Advisors Implicated • Revelation of Secret Taping System

  14. Nixon - Watergate • Senate Investigation subpoenaed tapes • Nixon Refused – released edited tapes • Supreme Court (9-0) sided with Senate • “Smoking Gun” – cover-up the crime • House passes three articles of impeachment (7/30/74) • Nixon Resigns (8/9/74)

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