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The Sassy Sixties. Reality in the Age of Innocence & The Upheavals of a Generation. The 1960 Election. JFK: A short biography Campaign Nomination and The New Frontier Kennedy-Nixon Debates Civil Rights and Missle Gap Victory by a slim margin Inauguration Speech. The Cold War.
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The Sassy Sixties Reality in the Age of Innocence & The Upheavals of a Generation
The 1960 Election • JFK: A short biography • Campaign • Nomination and The New Frontier • Kennedy-Nixon Debates • Civil Rights and Missle Gap • Victory by a slim margin • Inauguration Speech
The Cold War • Castro: U.S. Cuban Relations • Covert Operations • Bay of Pigs Debacle • Vienna Conference with Khrushchev • The Berlin Wall • Vietnam and Escalation • Cuban Missle Crisis
The Civil Rights Movement • 60 Campaign Promises • CORE and Freedom Rides • Meredith and Ole Miss • Birmingham • Civil Rights Bill • March on Washington
Death in Dallas • Shoring up the Democrats • Lee Harvey Oswald • Conspiracy? • Warren Report • Loss of Innocence
1964 • Civil Rights Legislation • Atlantic Convention • All the way or Half Way • Goldwater: Extremism in defense of liberty • Victory and its cost
Civil Rights • Freedom Summer in Mississippi • Atlantic City Fraud • CORE Activities • SNCC • San Francisco Bay Area • Selma March for Voting rights • Black Power rising
Foreign Affairs • The Cold War • Tonkin Resolution • Vietnam • Rolling Thunder • Search and destroy, body count, etc. • Winning Hearts and Minds
Black Power • Legacy of Marcus Garvey • The Nation of Islam • Malcolm X • Self-determination • By whatever means necessary: Cointelpro • The Black Panthers for Self Defense • Watts Riots & Kerner Commission
The Great Society • Progressive Origins • Big government war v. poverty • Medicare, wages, jobs • Education • Air and water quality • Transportation and Safety • The Record: skirmish
1968 • Tet Offensive and Questions • Peace Initiatives & LBJ’s bombshell • RFK’s campaign • King’s assassination and RFK • Democrats in Disarray • Nixon: Law & Order with Peace in Nam • The Election
Nixon and Vietnam • Vietnamization • Secret bombings of Cambodia • Protest in U.S. • Kent State and Unrest • The Pentagon Papers • American Public Opinion
The Cold War • Search for Détente • Surprise visits to Beijing and Moscow • SALT Treaty and the arms race • Peace is at Hand • Chile and The CIA • The Middle East
Nixon Domestic Agenda • Stagflation • Civil Rights • Affirmative Action • The Environment • Other Initiatives • Watergate debacle
Watergate • Nixon’s personality • CREEP and Plumbers • Watergate and 1972 • The Cover-up • The Tapes • Investigation • Resignation