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Title: The Sassy Sixties


1
The Sassy Sixties
  • Reality in the Age of Innocence
  • The Upheavals of a Generation

2
The 1960 Election
  • JFK A short biography
  • Campaign
  • Nomination and The New Frontier
  • Kennedy-Nixon Debates
  • Civil Rights and Missle Gap
  • Victory by a slim margin
  • Inauguration Speech

3
The Cold War
  • Castro U.S. Cuban Relations
  • Covert Operations
  • Bay of Pigs Debacle
  • Vienna Conference with Khrushchev
  • The Berlin Wall
  • Vietnam and Escalation
  • Cuban Missle Crisis

4
The Civil Rights Movement
  • 60 Campaign Promises
  • CORE and Freedom Rides
  • Meredith and Ole Miss
  • Birmingham
  • Civil Rights Bill
  • March on Washington

5
Death in Dallas
  • Shoring up the Democrats
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Conspiracy?
  • Warren Report
  • Loss of Innocence

6
1964
  • Civil Rights Legislation
  • Atlantic Convention
  • All the way or Half Way
  • Goldwater Extremism in defense of liberty
  • Victory and its cost

7
Civil Rights
  • Freedom Summer in Mississippi
  • Atlantic City Fraud
  • CORE Activities
  • SNCC
  • San Francisco Bay Area
  • Selma March for Voting rights
  • Black Power rising

8
Foreign Affairs
  • The Cold War
  • Tonkin Resolution
  • Vietnam
  • Rolling Thunder
  • Search and destroy, body count, etc.
  • Winning Hearts and Minds

9
Black Power
  • Legacy of Marcus Garvey
  • The Nation of Islam
  • Malcolm X
  • Self-determination
  • By whatever means necessary Cointelpro
  • The Black Panthers for Self Defense
  • Watts Riots Kerner Commission

10
The Great Society
  • Progressive Origins
  • Big government war v. poverty
  • Medicare, wages, jobs
  • Education
  • Air and water quality
  • Transportation and Safety
  • The Record skirmish

11
1968
  • Tet Offensive and Questions
  • Peace Initiatives LBJs bombshell
  • RFKs campaign
  • Kings assassination and RFK
  • Democrats in Disarray
  • Nixon Law Order with Peace in Nam
  • The Election

12
Nixon and Vietnam
  • Vietnamization
  • Secret bombings of Cambodia
  • Protest in U.S.
  • Kent State and Unrest
  • The Pentagon Papers
  • American Public Opinion

13
The Cold War
  • Search for Détente
  • Surprise visits to Beijing and Moscow
  • SALT Treaty and the arms race
  • Peace is at Hand
  • Chile and The CIA
  • The Middle East

14
Nixon Domestic Agenda
  • Stagflation
  • Civil Rights
  • Affirmative Action
  • The Environment
  • Other Initiatives
  • Watergate debacle

15
Watergate
  • Nixons personality
  • CREEP and Plumbers
  • Watergate and 1972
  • The Cover-up
  • The Tapes
  • Investigation
  • Resignation
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