Interstate Highway Act Mc Carthyism Loyalty Oaths HUAC

Interstate Highway Act

Mc. Carthyism Loyalty Oaths HUAC Hollywood Ten and Blacklist Hiss v Nixon Ends when Mc. Carthy goes after army J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI

Civil Rights

Jackie Robinson

Sweatt v Painter

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Earl Warren

Brown v Board of Education, Topeka Kansas

Little Rock 9

Civil Rights Act of 1957 Strom Thurmond maintains the longest one person filibuster in US history

Sit ins and SNCC

Immigration: Operation Wetback

American Indians: terminate tribes as legal entities

Cold War

Eisenhower ends Korea

Beginning of Vietnam French were in Indochina but leave and this creates a power vacuum Northern Vietnam becomes Communist, Vietnam is divided along the 17 th parallel American puts in a democracy friendly leader, Diem

Nasser and the Suez Crisis

Eisenhower Doctrine Pledges aid to any Middle Eastern country threatened by Communism

Castro and Cuba

Latin America

Sputnik

Creation of NASA

U-2 Incident

Election of 1960

Kennedy’s Inaugural Address And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us here the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you. With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own

NASA and Landing on the Moon But why, some say, the moon? Why does Rice play Texas?

Peace Corps

Bay of Pigs

Cuban Missile Crisis: nuclear chicken

1960 s Civil Rights

Cesar Chavez and the UFW

Chicano Walkouts

Chicano Rights Movement LULAC Mendez v Westminster Supreme Court

Assassination of Medgar Evers

Birmingham Campaign

MLK: Letter from a Birmingham Jail I wish you had commended the Negro sit inners and demonstrators of Birmingham for their sublime courage, their willingness to suffer and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation. One day the South will recognize its real heroes. They will be the James Merediths, with the noble sense of purpose that enables them to face jeering and hostile mobs, and with the agonizing loneliness that characterizes the life of the pioneer. They will be old, oppressed, battered Negro women, symbolized in a seventy two year old woman in Montgomery, Alabama, who rose up with a sense of dignity and with her people decided not to ride segregated buses, and who responded with ungrammatical profundity to one who inquired about her weariness: "My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest. " They will be the young high school and college students, the young ministers of the gospel and a host of their elders, courageously and nonviolently sitting in at lunch counters and willingly going to jail for conscience' sake. One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Freedom Rides and CORE

March on Washington

Kennedy Assassinated Zapruder Film

Lyndon Baines Johnson Civil Rights Act of 1964 creates the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Title VII War on Poverty Great Society and The Other America Voting Rights Act of 1965

Freedom Summer

24 th Amendment No poll taxes!

Black Power and Malcolm X Black Muslims and Elijah Muhammed Black Nationalism

Great Society Medicaid Medicare Bilingual programs Program Head Start Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 abolished “national origins” system

Vietnam Continues Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Ho Chi Minh Trail Tet Offensive My. Lai Massacre Antiwar demonstrations begin Teach ins, protest songs, marches Dove or hawk?

Escalation

Counter culture movement Hippies “Sexual Revolution” and Dr. Alfred Kinsey Manhattan Society and the Gay Rights Movement

Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today? Draft beer, not boys! Hell no, we won’t go! Eighteen today, dead tomorrow Johnson lied, people died! Eve of destruction- Barry Mc. Guire John Lennon - Give Peace A Chance Fortunade Son - CCR

Other things in the 60 s Woodstock Betty Friedan and the women’s movement Miranda Arizona v

1968 and the end of “happy hippies”