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The Stormy Sixties. 1960-1969. Fidel Castro - 1959. Bay of Pigs - 1961. 1400 CIA trained Cuban exiles… JFK cancelled air support…. Almost all killed or captured …. Berlin Wall - 1961. Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962. Thirteen Days in October… JFK blockades Cuba… “Hot Line”…. “New Frontier”.
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The Stormy Sixties 1960-1969
Bay of Pigs - 1961 • 1400 CIA trained Cuban exiles… • JFK cancelled air support…. • Almost all killed or captured …
Thirteen Days in October… • JFK blockades Cuba… • “Hot Line”…
LBJ • “Great Society” • Medicare • Medicaid • Education/Head Start • “War on Poverty”
1960 –Nashville Lunch Counters • Began at Walgreens…. • Protestors are verbally and physically abused then arrested yet…
Diane Nash • Chicago Native – went to college at Fisk University (Nashville)… • Nashville Lunch Counters • Founder of SNCC • Freedom Riders • Selma March
1961 – Freedom Riders • CORE…
1962 – Ole Miss • James Meredith
Martin Luther King Jr. – Letter from Birmingham Jail • 1963 Demonstrations in Birmingham, AL • Southern Christian Leadership Conference
1963 – Birmingham • 16th Street Baptist Church • KKK planted bomb went off just before Sunday School • 4 killed, 22 wounded
1963 “I Have a Dream” • March on Washington • 200,000
Martin Luther King Jr. • Assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis – 1968 • Led to Civil Rights Act of 1968
Counterculture • “Hippies” • Protest Vietnam War
1st Phase – Colonial Independence • French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)…. • Ho Chi Minh
France was defeated by Ho Chi Minh at Dien Bien Phu • Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel • Geneva Accords… • Ngo Dinh Diem claimed control of the South • The settlement reflected the U.S. policy of “containment”
2nd Phase – American Involvement • This phase originated with “Ike” and JFK but was intensified under Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) • Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Who Did We Fight? • Viet Minh - (NVA) Ho Chi Minh’s communist North Vietnamese Army • Viet Cong – (VC) South Vietnamese communist guerrilla fighters – commonly called “Charlie” by U.S. soldiers • Farmers by day and guerillas at night grossly underestimated by the U.S. commanders