Transcript Unit 26

Unit 25:The Turbulent 1960s
• From the New Frontier to the
Great Society
Chapter 24, Sections 1-3
[How did Presidents Kennedy and Johnson
use the federal government to advance
civil rights, freedoms and equality for
wider sections of U.S. citizenry?
• The antiwar movement and
the counterculture
Chapter 26, Section 2, Chapter 27,
Section 1
[How did non-violent protests influence
U.S. policy during the end of the
Vietnam War? How did college
students and musicians influence the
counterculture?
• Cold War confrontations: Asia,
Latin America, and Europe
Chapter 22, Sections 2-4, Chapter 24, • Expanding movements for
Section 2, Chapter 29, Section 4
civil rights
[How did the federal government react to
Chapter 25, Sections 2-3
threats to the U.S. from Asia and Europe?] [How was non-violent protest able to
establish equal civil rights for all U.S.
• Beginning of Détente
citizens? How and why did civil rights
Chapter 28, Sections 1-3
activists and protestors become more
[How President Nixon and his
militant during the mid to late 1960s?
administration develop and maintain a
peaceful relationship with China and the
USSR?]
Essential Vocabulary Unit 25 Terms [all fair
game for the next test]
• The Great Society
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New Frontier
Missile Gap
Televised Kennedy-Nixon Debates
Election of 1960
The Warren Court
“One Man, One Vote”
Flexible Response
The Alliance for Progress
JFK’s inaugural speech
The Peace Corps
The Bay of Pigs invasion
The Cuban Missile Crisis
November 22, 1963 Assassination
Johnson’s War on Poverty
Election of 1964
• Sit-ins [Greensboro Four]
• SNCC [Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee]
• Freedom Riders
• James Meredith
• 1963 Birmingham Protests
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• 1965 Selma March for Freedom
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• The Watts Riots of 1965
• The Kerner Commission
• Black Power Movement
• SDS [Students for a Democratic
Society]
• Counterculture [Hippies, Communes,
Haight-Ashbury district]