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Parent Category: Courses
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Category: History 208: History of the USA, Part II
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