Unit 10— HELTER SKELTER The 1960s

Stuff to Know

Unit Lessons

• • • • • 1-Helter Skelter (overview) 2-JFK & LBJ: New Frontiers & Great Socities (Ch 28) 3-Of Dreams and Mountaintops: The Civil Rights Movement (Ch 29) 4-RE: Victor Charlie, Situation Normal… (Ch 30) 5-Lucy in the Sky w/ Diamonds: The Counterculture (Ch 31)

Possible Written Response Qs

• • The decade of the 60s was a tumultuous time of love and war, conservatism and change. Explain. Be sure to use at least three significant illustrative examples.

Explain the general approach used by Martin Luther King, Jr. and other like-minded Civil Rights activists, and how, after the death of King, the CRM took a different approach.

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Ch 28—New Frontier & Great Society

Docs: Sputnik & ICBMs • • Assassination of Kennedy Warren Commission Kennedy-Nixon Debates JFK’s Preoccupation with Russia – Flexible response – Defense spending • • • • The Warren Court LBJ’s mentor Miranda v. Arizona case Cuba (Batista, Castro, revolution, Castro quote) Dean Rusk quote, “Eyeball to eyeball” Berlin & Khrushchev response

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Ch 29—Civil Rights Movement

Docs: Plessey V. Ferguson (1896) EO 9981 (Truman) Thurmond & Dixiecrats (‘48) Emmett Till (what/ results/ attitude of Bryants & Milams) Rosa Parks (intent!) Montgomery Bus Boycott Little Rock Nine Orval Faubus and his extreme anti-integration measure SNCC at Woolworths in Greensboro, NC (sit-in) Freedom Riders • • • • • • • • • • • Freedom Summer James Meredith MLK and his letter from a Birmingham Jail (why?) Birmingham’s notoriety March on Washington (’63) Sixteenth St. Baptist Curch 24 th Amendment Civil Rights Act (‘64) and Voting Rights Act (‘65) Prophesy of Mountaintop speech (when, where,why) Black Power/ Black Panther P Civil Disobedience

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Ch 30--Vietnam

Docs: John Kerry’s Senate Testimony 1971 Indochina and French ‘54 Geneva Accords Ho Chi Minh & Ngo Dinh Diem Eisenhower’s assessment of V Containment & Dominoes Gulf of Tonkin incident Johnson’s escalation of troops “search & destroy” & Rolling Thunder Napalm and agent orange The Difficulty of V • • • • • • • • • • • “Victor Charlie” (VC) Tet Offensive General Westmoreland Credibility gap & Pentagon Pprs Election of ‘68/ Nixon promised Nixon’s southern strategy and silent majority My Lai Massacre Nixon’s expansion of war (why?) & public response Kent State Massacre Vietnamization American withdrawal, and…

Ch 31—An Era of Social Change

• • • • • • • • • Betty Friedan NOW and ERA ***Roe v. Wade Counterculture Hippies Tune in and drop out Haight-Ashbury Woodstock Conservative Response • Bob Dylan, “The Times They are a Changin’”