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The Turbulent 1960’s. Kennedy for President. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1960-1963). The Kennedy’s. “Camelot”. The “New Frontier” & “Great Society”. Medicare Office of Economic Opportunity Community Action The Housing Act of 1961 The Department of Housing and Urban Development
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The “New Frontier”& “Great Society” Medicare Office of Economic Opportunity Community Action The Housing Act of 1961 The Department of Housing and Urban Development Secondary Education Act of 1965 Immigration Act of 1965 The Results of the “Great Society” reforms
Just 15 school days before the APUSH exam…May 8th! • Rosa Parks paper due Wed. • Re-read/study all your notes & textbook—every night • Make a list of questions/subjects that you do not fully understand • Study—memorize vocab to use on the APUSH exam • APUSH breakfast will be in my room from 7:15am-7:45am—exam begins at 8
JFK’s Foreign Policy Special forces Agency for International Development Peace Corps Bay of Pigs (Apr. 1961) The Berlin Wall (Aug. 13, 1961) Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962)
The Iron Curtain • The total length of the Berlin Wall was 96 miles. • Twenty-seven miles went through the center of the city. • Twenty-three miles went through residential areas. • Sixty-six miles comprised a concrete barrier 13 feet high. • It also consisted of 302 watch towers and 20 bunkers. • More than 5,000 people successfully crossed the Berlin Wall to freedom. • About 3,200 people were arrested in the border area. • More than 160 people were killed in the death area, and another 120 people were injured.
The Assassination of JFK Lee Harvey Oswald Jack Ruby Conspiracy Theories Warren Report
A year after his conviction, in March 1965, Ruby conducted a brief televised news conference in which he stated: "Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world." When asked by a reporter: "Are these people in very high positions Jack?" he responded "Yes."[Dallas Deputy Sheriff Al Maddox claimed: "Ruby told me, he said, 'Well, they injected me for a cold.' He said it was cancer cells. That's what he told me, Ruby did. I said you don't believe that ____. He said, 'I damn sure do!' [Then] one day when I started to leave, Ruby shook hands with me and I could feel a piece of paper in his palm.... [In this note] he said it was a conspiracy and he said ... if you will keep your eyes open and your mouth shut, you're gonna learn a lot. And that was the last letter I ever got from him." Not long before Ruby died, according to an article in the London Sunday Times, he told psychiatrist Werner Teuter, that the assassination was "an act of overthrowing the government" and that he knew "who had President Kennedy killed." He added: "I am doomed. I do not want to die. But I am not insane. I was framed to kill Oswald."[Eventually, the appellate court agreed with Ruby's lawyers for a new trial, and on October 5, 1966, ruled that his motion for a change of venue before the original trial court should have been granted. Ruby's conviction and death sentence were overturned. Arrangements were underway for a new trial to be held in February 1967, in Wichita Falls, Texas, when, on December 9, 1966, Ruby was admitted to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, suffering from pneumonia. A day later, doctors realized he had cancer in his liver, lungs, and brain. Ruby made a final statement from his hospital bed on December 19 that he and he alone had been responsible for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.["There is nothing to hide," Ruby said. "There was no one else."
The War DuringJohnson & Nixon Administrations French involvement Geneva Accords Division of Vietnam Viet Minh-Viet Cong (NLF) Emperor Bao Dai Elections in Vietnam SEATO Ngo Dinh Diem (RVN) Nhu
Battles and Conflicts Ho Chi Minh Trail Agent Orange Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Maddox and Turner Joy The Tet Offensive
The Evils of War My Lai Lt. William Calley
An End to Vietnam Repeal of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Cooper-Church Amendment “Christmas bombings” Treaty of Paris Nixon’s secret treaty Nguyen van Thieu
Student Rebellion Students for a Democratic Society “The New Left” Freedom of Speech Movement University of California, Berkeley
The Counterculture Hippies “Sexual revolution” Drug culture Rock-n-roll
The public reacts to Vietnam Sen. J. William Fulbright A downturn in the economy Protests & student demonstrations “teach-ins” Mobilization against the war March against Death The Moratorium The Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg