The 1960s
KENNEDY’S PRESIDENCY
1. Election of 1960
A. Nominees
1. Republicans
2. Democrats nominated
B. Campaign
1. Catholicism
2. Debates
3. African Americans
C. Result
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D. Inaugural speech: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask
what you can do for your country."
2. Kennedy’s domestic policy
A. Legislative failures:
B. Minimum wage
C. Area Redevelopment Act of 1961
D. Housing Act of 1961:
F. Space Race
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
E. Crime
3. JFK and Civil Rights: See Civil Rights Era Notes
4. Kennedy and the Cold War
A. "Flexible Response": See Cold War Notes
Set up Green Berets (elite commando force)
Built up nuclear arsenal for 2nd strike capability.
B. Bay of Pigs: See Cold War Notes
D. Peace Corps
E. Alliance for Progress
F. Berlin Wall, 1961: See Cold War Notes
G. Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962) : See Cold War Notes
H. New spirit of cooperation
1. Kennedy and Khrushchev
2. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (July, 1963)
5. Assassination of JFK
A. November 22, 1963,
-- Lyndon Johnson
B. Lee Harvey Oswald,
C. Warren Commission,
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D. A congressional investigation in the 1970s
JOHNSON’S PRESIDENCY
6. President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Election of 1964
A. Pledged to continue Kennedy’s policies
1. Kennedy
2. "War on Poverty"
3. 1964 tax cut.
B. Election of 1964
1. Democrats nominated LBJ on the platform of "The Great
Society"
2. Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater, senator from Arizona
3. Campaign
a. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
b. Goldwater
4. Results:
7. The Great Society
War on Poverty (after election of 1964): Office of Economic
Opportunity ("Equal Opportunity Act")
8. Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
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Head Start
9. Medicare Act of 1965
10. Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) created in 1966
11. Immigration Act of 1965
12. Culture
A. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
B. Public Broadcasting System created (PBS)
13. Water Quality Act (1965)
14. Space program continued: U.S. eventually won the space race.
15. Triumph of civil rights (part of the Great Society)
1. 24th Amendment (1964): See Civil Rights Notes
2. Civil Rights Bill of 1964: See Civil Rights Notes
3. Title VII: See Civil Rights Notes
4. Voting Rights Act of 1965: See Civil Rights Notes
5. Affirmative Action (part of the Great Society)
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"reverse discrimination”
Bakke case, 1978
Jesse Jackson: See Civil Rights Notes
Thurgood Marshall: See Civil Rights Notes
Forced busing : See Civil Rights Notes
Rise of Black Power and racial violence: See Civil
Black Separatism: See Civil Rights Notes
Marcus Garvey: See Civil Rights Notes
Nation of Islam: See Civil Rights Notes
Malcolm X: See Civil Rights Notes
Stokely Carmichael: See Civil Rights Notes
Black Power: See Civil Rights Notes
Black Panthers: See Civil Rights Notes
Racial violence : See Civil Rights Notes
"Long Hot Summers": See Civil Rights Notes
Rights Notes
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16. President Lyndon Johnson’s legacy
A.
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2.
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B. No president since Lincoln had worked harder or done more for
civil rights.
C. "Great Society" programs heavily criticized by conservatives in
subsequent years.
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D. The Vietnam War
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Summaries
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