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

 

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