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The Stormy Sixties

Explore the pivotal events of the 1960s, from the Bay of Pigs to Civil Rights struggles, Vietnam War protests, and the rise of counterculture. Dive into the era of JFK, LBJ's Great Society, and the fight for equality and justice. Witness the seismic shifts that shaped a decade of change.

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The Stormy Sixties

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  1. The Stormy Sixties 1960-1969

  2. Fidel Castro - 1959

  3. Bay of Pigs - 1961 • 1400 CIA trained Cuban exiles… • JFK cancelled air support…. • Almost all killed or captured …

  4. Berlin Wall - 1961

  5. Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962

  6. Thirteen Days in October… • JFK blockades Cuba… • “Hot Line”…

  7. “New Frontier”

  8. “Bobby Kennedy”

  9. November 22, 1963

  10. Lyndon Baines Johnson: 1964-1969

  11. Election of 1964

  12. LBJ • “Great Society” • Medicare • Medicaid • Education/Head Start • “War on Poverty”

  13. Tent Cities of Fayette & Haywood Counties

  14. Greensboro, NC - 1960

  15. 1960 –Nashville Lunch Counters • Began at Walgreens…. • Protestors are verbally and physically abused then arrested yet…

  16. Diane Nash • Chicago Native – went to college at Fisk University (Nashville)… • Nashville Lunch Counters • Founder of SNCC • Freedom Riders • Selma March

  17. 1961 – Freedom Riders • CORE…

  18. 1962 – Ole Miss • James Meredith

  19. Birmingham Police – Eugene “Bull” Connor

  20. Martin Luther King Jr. – Letter from Birmingham Jail • 1963 Demonstrations in Birmingham, AL • Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  21. 1963 – Birmingham • 16th Street Baptist Church • KKK planted bomb went off just before Sunday School • 4 killed, 22 wounded

  22. 1963 – George Wallace

  23. 1963 “I Have a Dream” • March on Washington • 200,000

  24. Civil Rights Act - 1964

  25. 24th Amendment

  26. Selma to Montgomery - 1965

  27. “Bloody Sunday”

  28. Voting Rights Act - 1965

  29. Stokely Carmichael – “Black Power”

  30. Malcom X – Black Muslims

  31. Bobby Seale – Black Panthers

  32. Martin Luther King Jr. • Assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis – 1968 • Led to Civil Rights Act of 1968

  33. Alex Haley

  34. Counterculture • “Hippies” • Protest Vietnam War

  35. Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War

  36. 1st Phase – Colonial Independence • French Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos)…. • Ho Chi Minh

  37. 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”

  38. 2nd Phase – American Involvement • This phase originated with “Ike” and JFK but was intensified under Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) • Gulf of Tonkin Incident

  39. 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

  40. Ho Chi Minh Trail

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