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Chapter 30: The Vietnam Era

Chapter 30: The Vietnam Era. Preview: “Presidents from Truman to Nixon argued that communism in Southeast Asia threatened vital American interests. But it was Lyndon Johnson who began a massive bombing campaign and sent half a million American troops to intervene in Vietnam’s civil war.”

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Chapter 30: The Vietnam Era

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  1. Chapter 30: The Vietnam Era Preview:“Presidents from Truman to Nixon argued that communism in Southeast Asia threatened vital American interests. But it was Lyndon Johnson who began a massive bombing campaign and sent half a million American troops to intervene in Vietnam’s civil war.” The Highlights: The Road to Vietnam Social Consequences of the War The Unraveling The Nixon Era The New Identity Politics The End of an Era

  2. 30-2 The Road to Vietnam • Lyndon Johnson’s War • The domino theory • Tonkin Gulf incident, 1964 • Rolling Thunder • Escalation • Air strikes McGraw-Hill

  3. 30-3 McGraw-Hill

  4. 30-4 Social Consequences of the War • The Soldiers’ War • Body counts • Technology and its limits • The War at Home • Teach-ins • Hawks and doves • Antiwar demonstrations • McNamara loses faith McGraw-Hill

  5. 30-5 The Unraveling • Tet Offensive • Stalemate • Clark Clifford • “Clean for Gene” • LBJ withdraws • The Shocks of 1968 • The King and Kennedy assassinations • Both men exemplified the liberal tradition • Tumultuous Democratic convention McGraw-Hill

  6. 30-6 “The clashes in Chicago seemed homegrown, but they took place against a backdrop of a global surge in radical, often violent, student upheavals” (935). • Revolutionary Clashes Worldwide • Demonstrations in many countries • Whose Silent Majority? • Governor George Wallace • Nixon’s “silent majority” • The election of 1968 McGraw-Hill

  7. 30-7 The Nixon Era • Vietnamization—and Cambodia • Henry Kissinger • Invading Cambodia • Fighting a No-Win War • Morale became a serious problem for American soldiers • GIs and black power McGraw-Hill

  8. 30-8 “Despite Nixon’s insistence on ‘peace with honor,’ Vietnam was not a war he had chosen to fight. And both Kissinger and Nixon recognized that by 1968 the United States no longer had the strength to exercise unchallenged dominance across the globe” (938). • The Move toward Detente • Nixon Doctrine • The China card • SALT I (1972) McGraw-Hill

  9. 30-9 The New Identity Politics • Latino Activism • Puerto Rican migration • Cesar Chavez and the UFW • Chicano activists • La Raza Unida • The Choices of American Indians • Termination: reduction of federal services, selling off land • American Indian Movement • Wounded Knee McGraw-Hill

  10. 30-10 • Asian Americans • The myth of the model minority • Gay Rights • Growing political activism placed them among minorities demanding equal rights • Stonewall incident (1969) McGraw-Hill

  11. 30-11 • Feminism • The Feminine Mystique • National Organization for Women • Eyewitness to History: The Early Days of the Feminist Movement • Equal Rights and Abortion • ERA and Roe v. Wade (1973) • Women divided McGraw-Hill

  12. 30-12 The End of an Era “The war in Southeast Asia shattered the optimism of the early 60s: the belief that the world could be remade with the help of enough brilliant intellectuals and federal programs” (949). McGraw-Hill

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