Chapter 26 Lives Changed 1961 1968 2015 Pearson

Chapter 26 Lives Changed 1961 -1968 © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

New Voices, New Authorities • Though it was formative for many, the Civil Rights Movement was only one of many challenges to American culture in the 1960 s. • Small political movements burst onto a larger stage © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Books, Films, Music • • • Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Michael Harrington’s The Other America Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove The music of Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, and Jimi Hendrix © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Student Movement of the 1960 s • • • Students for a Democratic Society Battle the “Establishment” Free Speech Movement University of California at Berkeley, 1964 Mario Savio © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Camelot, the White House, and Dallas — The Kennedy Administration • John F. Kennedy, the second youngest president • A new generation was in charge • “Camelot” © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The New Frontier • • Kennedy’s domestic program Kennedy slow to move on civil rights Equal Pay Act Increased funding for NASA © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Religion, Education, and the Courts • 1962 - Engel v. Vitale • The Supreme Court declared that schools in New York State could not open the school day with prayer. • Many Americans, Protestants and Catholics, claimed that the court was “legislating God out of the public schools. ” © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Kennedy’s Foreign Policy — From the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis • • Bay of Pigs, Cuba, April 17, 1961 1, 500 exiles invade 500 killed, the rest surrender October 1962 - the country stood on the brink of nuclear war • Kennedy chooses a blockade • Soviets remove missiles © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Dallas, Conspiracies, and Legacies • Kennedy Assassination • Nov. 22, 1963, Dallas • Warren Commission - Investigated the assassination • Found that Oswald acted alone • Conspiracy theories © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Coming of Lyndon B. Johnson • Born in poverty in Texas • Graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College • Democratic leader of the Senate • “The Johnson Treatment” © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The War on Poverty and the Great Society • • • LBJ’s “War on Poverty” Job Corps VISTA Medicare & Medicaid Federal aid to education Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Americans in Poverty MAP 26 -1, Americans in Poverty © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The Impact of the Voting Rights Act MAP 26 -2, The Impact of the Voting Rights Act © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Vietnam • The war in Vietnam would overshadow the Great Society programs • LBJ inherited a mess in Vietnam • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • Viet Cong in South Vietnam ambushed U. S. troops • LBJ - limited war © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

The War in Vietnam MAP 26 -3, The War in Vietnam © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

1968 • Fall 1967 - Gen. William Westmoreland announced that “half of the enemy’s forces were no longer capable of combat. ” • Jan. 1968 - the Viet Cong launched the Tet Offensive • Weakened American public support for the war • MLK, Jr. assassinated in Memphis © 2015 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.