Unit 11 The Sixties: A Decade of Protest and Changes (2.5 weeks

Unit 11 The Sixties: A Decade of Protest and Changes (2.5 weeks) Big Picture Questions: What challenges were faced by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson as they led the nation during the 1960s? The Kennedy Presidency 1960-1963 John F. Kennedy New Frontier Peace Corps The Space Race John Glenn Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Advances in technology due to space program Fidel Castro Bay of Pigs invasion Alliance for Progress The Berlin Wall Nikita Krushchev Cuban Missile Crisis Kennedy’s assassination Lyndon B. Johnson Great Society Civil Rights War on Poverty Economic Opportunity Act Job Corps Medicare Act of 1965 McCarran-Walter Act Immigration Act of 1965 Johnson’s Landslide election Barry Goldwater Conscience of a Conservative In what ways did the Women’s liberation movement of the 1960s help women achieve greater economic and social success? Women’s Liberation (Feminist) Movement Reason’s for the movement’s emergence Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique National Organization for Women (NOW) Achievements Equal Pay Act Roe v. Wade Title IX How did the Civil Rights movement pave the path for the expansion of rights to other groups? African-American Militancy Black Power SNCC Black Muslims Black Panthers Malcolm X Ghettos Dr. King’s assassination Race riots Huey Newton Bobby Seale Chicano Movement Hector Perez Garcia Cesar Chavez Dolores Huerta Diego Rivera murals Barrios American Indian Movement (AIM) “Red Power” Native American Legislation Litigation U.S. Court of Appeals Mendez v. Westminster School District 1947 Delgado v. Bastrop ISD 1948 Hernandez v. Texas 1954 White v. Regester 1973 Edgewood ISD v. Kirby 1984 “Youth Culture” of the 1960s Beatles 26th amendment Were the failures of the Vietnam War due primarily to a misunderstanding of Vietnamese politics and culture or reluctance to “win at all costs”? The Vietnam War 1954-1973 President Kennedy Domino Theory Vietcong President Johnson Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions 1964 Johnson Escalates the War Napalm Agent Orange Siagon Roy Benavidez Ho Chi Minh Guerilla warfare Anti-war movement Media Credibility gap Hawks v. doves President Nixon Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy Henry Kissinger Vietnamization Invasion of Cambodia Diplomatic Overtures Silent Majority Pentagon papers Fall of Saigon Legacy of the war War Powers Resolution To what extent did the Vietnam War influence Literature, art, and music? Beat Generation Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac Counter-culture Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-five Phillip Roth Rock n Roll Chuck Berry Little Richard Elvis Presley Motown Sound Abstract expressionism Pop art Jackson Pollock Mark Rothko Andy Warhol Jasper Johns Roy Lichtenstein Instructional Focus: The 1960s was a decade of protest and change. The unit begins by examining the presidencies of both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Then the unit moves to the women’s liberation movement and examining how other rights expanded to other minority groups. Vietnam then becomes the focus as we look at both events in Vietnam and the reactions at home. These changes all led to strong reactions in literature, music, and art and provide a great opportunity to examine examples from this time period more closely. Suggested Resources: Video - Dear America, Letters Home from Vietnam Video - Return with Honor JFK Speech Rice http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g25G1M4EXrQ.

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