HIST 208

29. Postwar Consensus?

• Eisenhower's Moderate Republicanism
  • 1952 Election
  • Moderate Politics
  • Economic Boom
• Interstates, Malls, and McDonald's
  • Suburban Growth
  • National Interstate and Defense Hwy Act
  • Shopping Malls
  • "Baby Boom"?
  • McDs
• The Cold War Continues
  • Sputnik
  • Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate

30. Civil Rights Movement

• The Fifties
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
  
  • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
  • Linda Brown
  • Thurgood Marshall / Clark's Dolls
  • Legacy
• Little Rock Central High (1957)
  
  • Little Rock Nine
  • Gov. Orval Faubus's blockade
  • Pres. Eisenhower's federal intervention
• Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
  
  • Rosa Parks
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

31. John F. Kennedy

• JFK's New Frontier (1960)
  • Young, Handsome, and Roman Catholic
  • Containment and Social Justice
  • TV Debate with Nixon
  • "Ask not..." Inaugural
• JFK's Foreign Policy
  
  • Bay of Pigs (1961)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
  • Vietnam
• JFK and the Civil Rights Movement
  
  • Student Movement
  • March on Washington (1963)
  • Assassination
  • Legacies: CRA (1964) and VRA (1965)

32. Lyndon B. Johnson "History Lab"

• Small Group Exercise
• Class discussion of LBJ worksheet

33. Remembering the 1950s and 1960s

• Small group discussion of Personal Interview Projects
• Eisenhower and Kennedy videos
• Class discussion

34. Youth Movements

• Student Activism
  
  • Seeds of Discontent
  • SDS / Port Huron Statement
  • Free Speech Movement at Berkeley
• Vietnam
  
  • New Left criticism
  • Tet Offensive / LBJ's demise
• Chaos
  
  • Assassinations
  • Chicago Democratic Convention / Jerry Rubin

35. Nixon

• Election of 1968
  
  • Democratic Convention chaos
  • Nixon and Wallace alternatives
  • Political Realignment
• An End to Vietnam?
  
  • Vietnamization
  • Cambodia and Kent State
  • Withdrawal
  • My Lai
  • Paris Accords
  • Casualties
• Watergate
  
  • Cambodia leak
  • Huston plan
  • Pentegon Papers
  • Plumbers / Dirty Tricks
  • CREEP
  • Break In / Cover Up / Impeachment
• Environmentalism