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The Stormy Sixties

The Stormy Sixties. 1960-1968. Bell Ringer – JFK’s Credo.

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The Stormy Sixties

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  1. The Stormy Sixties 1960-1968

  2. Bell Ringer – JFK’s Credo • I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas. It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much a party creed or set of fixed platform promises as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves.

  3. objectives • Identify Kennedy’s foreign policy by evaluating events such as the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis. • Analyze JFK’s influence on the Civil Rights Movement. • Explain Lyndon Johnson’s war at home and abroad. • Describe the 1960s culture.

  4. Setting up a new Frontier • Inaugural address brings direction to a new decade • Attacking Communism • Peace Corps • Berlin Wall (1961) • Formation of European Union • “Flexible Response” and the Green Berets • Vietnam • Alliance for Progress • Bay of Pigs Invasion • Cuban Missile Crisis and détente

  5. Setting up a new frontier • Kennedy promotes civil rights through SNCC, James Meredith, MLK Jr. • JFK’s assassination brings with it conspiracy • LBJ forms a “Great Society” out of JFK’s New Frontier • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • EEOC

  6. The Great Society • Johnson uses Tonkin Gulf Incident to propel him into first full-term • Dept. of Trans. • HUD • Medicare/Medicaid • Head Start • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • 24th Amendment • Nonviolence meets violence with new leader, SNCC

  7. Combatting Communism • South Vietnamese become spectators of war • Doves, Hawks clash over war – “Cointelpro” • Tet Offensive would prove to weaken LBJ • 1968 Election • Robert Kennedy/Hubert Humphrey • Richard Nixon • George Wallace

  8. 1960’s Culture • Development of the counterculture • Beatnik generation • Woodstock • Attributed to… • Population • Protest • Prosperity

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