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1960s Culture and the Beginning of the Vietnam War

1960s Culture and the Beginning of the Vietnam War. Unit 10, Lesson 5. Essential Idea. The 1960s was a time of social and political upheaval, which grew during the Vietnam War. . 1960s Youth and Politics. Relation to Civil Rights struggles SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) New Left

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1960s Culture and the Beginning of the Vietnam War

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  1. 1960s Culture and the Beginning of the Vietnam War Unit 10, Lesson 5

  2. Essential Idea • The 1960s was a time of social and political upheaval, which grew during the Vietnam War.

  3. 1960s Youth and Politics • Relation to Civil Rights struggles • SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) • New Left • Free Speech Movement • Student protests • The Weathermen

  4. The Counterculture Movement • Hippies • Characteristics • Haight-Ashbury District • Music • Woodstock • Legacy • Counterculture

  5. Sexual Revolution • Challenges to traditional values • Alfred Kinsey • Medical influences • Popular culture • Homosexuality • Stonewall Rebellion (1969) • Eventual backlash

  6. Women’s Movement • Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963) • NOW (National Organization of Women)

  7. Equal Rights Amendment • Title IX (1972) • ERA (Equal Rights Amendment, 1972) • Phyllis Schlafly • Fate of ERA • Legacy of Women’s Movement • Feminism

  8. The Vietnam War • Cultural impact • Political impact • Foreign Policy impact

  9. Vietnam • North Vietnam • South Vietnam • Vietcong • Invasion

  10. Background • Cold War • Domino Theory • JFK and Vietnam • “Advisers” • Diem • Instability • South Vietnam Falling Apart

  11. LBJ Inherits Vietnam • LBJ and Vietnam • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964) • Legal war? • Great Society vs. Vietnam

  12. The Vietnam War • Saigon • Operation Rolling Thunder (1965) • Troop escalation • General William Westmoreland

  13. Fighting Conditions • Vietcong tactics • Guerilla fighting • Blending in • American reactions

  14. Fighting Conditions • American tactics • “Search and destroy” • Napalm • Agent Orange • Consequences • The War Escalates

  15. The “Credibility Gap” • Hawks and Doves • “Hearts and Minds” • Fighting Continues • “Credibility Gap” • The “TV War”

  16. Protests • The Draft • 26th Amendment (1971) • The Antiwar Movement • World reaction to Vietnam

  17. Tet Offensive • Tet Offensive (1968) • Military results • Political results • Tet Offensive

  18. LBJ Scales Down the War • LBJ announces withdrawal • LBJ “steps down” • 1968 peace talks

  19. Election of 1968 • 1968 • Robert Kennedy (Democrat) • Assassination (1968) • Democratic National Convention • Chicago riots

  20. Election of 1968 • Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) • George Wallace (American Independent) • Richard Nixon (Republican) • The Country in Turmoil

  21. Election of 1968 • Results • Another return to normalcy?

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