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Decades of Social Change

Decades of Social Change. AP U.S. History. To do: t ake out notes sit with round study buddy discuss question. Warm Up. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is significant because it Required Taiwan to relinquish its position on the United States Security Council to China

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Decades of Social Change

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  1. Decades of Social Change AP U.S. History

  2. To do: • take out notes • sit with round study buddy • discuss question Warm Up • The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is significant because it • Required Taiwan to relinquish its position on the United States Security Council to China • Authorized the president to take any measures necessary to repel attacks against United States forces and allies in Southeast Asia • Led to an alliance between the United States, Japan, and Taiwan to limit the power of China in Asia • Conferred the most-favored-nation status to China in its trade with the United States • Declared that the United States would continue to provide air and naval support but withdraw all ground troops in the Vietnam War

  3. Dien Bien Phu • Vietnam partitioned • elections cancelled Ngo Dinh Diem = American puppet

  4. the American supported South Vietnamese regime is unpopular Vietcong form JFK approves coup against Diem

  5. Gulf of Tonkin incident 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution gives president power to send troops into a “military conflict” without the approval of Congress Vietnam is not a war, it is a “conflict”

  6. More and more troops sent by LBJ

  7. “From 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny, peasant country - and failed. When the US fought in Vietnam it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.”

  8. sinking morale - drug use

  9. “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?”

  10. To do: • take out notes • sit with round study buddy • discuss question Warm Up • During 1968 the deep divisions within the American public were demonstrated by all of the following EXCEPT • The assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. • Urban riots in major cities across the country • Antiwar demonstrations at the Democratic national convention in Chicago • The refusal of most Republicans to support Richard Nixon as their presidential candidate • The strong showing of George Wallace’s American Independent Party in southern states and some northern urban centers

  11. Doves v. Hawks “working class war” burning of draft cards draft dodging protests

  12. 1968 • Tet Offensive • My Lai massacre • MLK assassinated • RFK assassinated • Election 1968

  13. 37th Administration • Vietnamization • Cambodia and Laos • Kent State protest • New York Times v. United States • end of Vietnam War

  14. To do: • take out notes • sit with round study buddy • discuss question Warm Up • Which of the following led a campaign to block ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? • Gloria Steinem • Phyllis Schlafly • Betty Friedan • Maribel Morgan • Shirley Chisholm

  15. Brown pride La Raza Unida “chicano/a” The Brown Berets United Farm Workers - organized by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to unionize for collective bargaining cross-racial boycott

  16. Indian Education Act Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act legal recognition of tribal lands AIM - led by Dennis Banks - 1972 = Trail of Broken Treaties 1973 = occupation of Wounded Knee and shoot-out with FBI

  17. We Hold the Rock • We feel that this so-called Alcatraz Island is more than suitable for an Indian reservation, as determined by the white man’s own standards. By this we mean that this place resembles most Indian reservations in that: • It is isolated from modern facilities, and without adequate means of transportation. • It has no fresh running water. • It has inadequate sanitation facilities. • There are no oil or mineral rights. • There is no industry and so unemployment is very great. • There are no health care facilities. • The soil is rocky and non-productive; and the land does not support game. • There are no educational facilities. • The population has always exceeded the land base. • The population has always been held as prisoners and dependent upon others.

  18. To do: • take out notes • sit with round study buddy • discuss question Warm Up • During the 1960s, sit-in demonstrations were first effectively used by • College students working with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) • Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) • Huey Newton and the Black Panthers • Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam • African American veterans returning form the Second World War

  19. Review • List presidents 1-37. • List events of Vietnam War, in chronological order (identify which President was in charge). • List important leaders/ organizations of social movements: farm workers, feminists, Native-Americans, free speech movement, and counterculture. • Identify: • Domino theory • Tonkin Gulf Resolution • Pentagon Papers • War Powers Act • Equal Rights Amendment • Roe v. Wade

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