1950-2007

Today Review 1960s Vietnam War Notes Watch 1st part of 1960-

1964 Video 1970-1990s Notes

Today Review yesterday’s notes Watching 1970-79 Video 1980s-90s Notes** Sr. meeting at 2:00. All

seniors will have homework to make up for the missed classwork today!

Life After WWII

• After WWII, conformity was the trend• Suburbs spread• William Levitt built affordable, “cookie-

cutter” homes that led to a growing middle class (Levitt Towns)

• Fear of nuclear war spread during the Cold War (remember: the Cold War lasted until 1990)

• There was a “baby boom” (born between 1946-1964)

Baby Boomer Generation

• As young adults, the “baby boomers” rejected conformity… they wanted to be different

• As adults, “baby boomers” created a new political movement called the “New Left” (belief in radical social change)

• This social change led us to….

The 1960s

Election of 1960

• In the Presidential election of 1960, John F. Kennedy (Dem.) ran against Richard Nixon (Rep.)

• It was the first time a presidential debate was held on TV

• Kennedy appeared confident

• Nixon was sweaty and nervous

John F. Kennedy• First Catholic

President• Young, witty, elegant

administration• Surrounded himself

with the “best and the brightest”

• “New Frontier”• Peace Corp

(volunteerism)

Ask not whatyour

country can do for you- ask what you can do for

your country

Kennedy Administration

1. The Bay of Pigs2. Cuban Missile Crisis3. Race to the Moon4. Kennedy

Assassination

The Bay of Pigs• The Bay of Pigs:

The US had secretly trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba, to start an uprising against Castro. When they invaded, the Cubans and Soviets captured them. Huge embarrassment!

Fidel Castro,Communist Dictator of Cuba

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Photos revealed that the Soviets had sent missiles to Cuba and that the Cubans had them pointed toward America, ready to launch. Kennedy informed the American public, who anxiously waited for 6 days, expected a nuclear war. Khrushchev removed the missiles with the promise that we would not invade Cuba

NASA- explore outer space

• Yuri Gagari (Soviet), first human in space

• Alan Shepard, first American in space

Race to the

Moon

• First humans on the moon were American astronauts Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin

Kennedy Assassination

• Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson

• Became President when Kennedy was assassinated

• Programs called “Great Society”

• Signed into law lots of Civil Rights legislation (Civil Rights Act of 1964; 24th Amendment; Voting Rights Act of 1965)

• Head Start• Medicaid• Medicare

War on Poverty

Civil Rights Movement

1. Brown v. Board of Education

2. Montgomery Bus Boycott3. Little Rock Nine4. March on Washington5. Militant Leadership

• Brown v. Board of Education overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (separate but equal)

• Thurgood Marshall, first AfAm Supreme Court Justice

Separate

schools are NOT equal!

• Montgomery Bus Boycott- boycott of the segregated transportation system of Montgomery, Alabama

• Triggered by Rosa Parks

Little Rock Nine- Nine high school students from Little Rock, AK who tested integration at Central High School

March on Washington- Organized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who gave his famous “I Have a Dream” Speech”

• Non-violent protests (sit-ins, boycotts, marches)

• Civil Disobedience (refusal to obey a law as a means of protest- Henry David Thoreau)

Malcolm X- Militant Civil Rights leader who believed that equality should be achieved “by any means necessary”

Black Panthers- Militant “Black Power” organization that advocated Black leadership in their own communities & the rebuilding of urban ghettos

"I think that there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in a position to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to this situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time, I'm not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.“ ~Malcolm X

Other Social Movements

1. Counterculture (Hippies)2. Women’s Rights

Movement3. Brown Power Movement4. Red Power Movement

A counter culture arose in the 1960s (wanted a break with the traditional values of their parents)

Woodstock (1969) music and arts festival in New York

Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco was the center of “hippie” life and drug use

Women’s Movement

Gloria Steinam (founded Ms. Magazine)

• Leaders: Betty

Friedan (wrote The Feminine Mystique)

Migrant Workers

• Goal: Support the rights of migrant farm workers, mostly who were poor Hispanic immigrants

• Leaders: Cesar Chavez

(conducted hunger strikes & non-violent protests)

American Indian Movement• Important Groups:

AIM (American Indian Movement)

• Important Events: Trail of Broken

Treaties (occupation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, DC)

Siege at Wounded Knee

Vietnam War1. Vietnam Divided by

Communism2. Gulf of Tonkin

Resolution3. Tet Offensive4. Mai Lai Massacre5. Effects of the War

French Indochina

Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh, lead a Communist independence movement against France

Divided Vietnam

• North Vietnam- Communist (Vietminh)

• South Vietnam- Democratic elections, but corruption in the Ngo Dinh Diem regime

• The Vietcong wanted to unite Vietnam under the leadership of Communist, Ho Chi Minh

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution• President

Lyndon Johnson & the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (took power away from Congress in declaring war)

• Napalm used to destroy the jungles

• Tet Offensive- North Vietnam & Vietcong fierce attack against America

• Showed that the Vietcong would not give up!

• My Lai Massacre

• Kent State University Anti-War Demonstration- National Guard killed students

• Vietnam Veterans Memorial- “The Wall”, Washington, DC

• Vietnam veterans were blamed for the war and treated badly when they returned

Government Distrust

• The Vietnam War created a great deal of distrust for the government

• This was intensified during the Watergate scandal

Richard M. Nixon

• Johnson did not run for re-election in 1968

• Nixon (Rep.) was elected• His presidency was

clouded with scandal when Republicans broke into the Democratic National Headquarters (at the Watergate Hotel) and stole materials

Watergate

• Washington Post reporters Bernstein & Woodward used the anonymous source “Deep Throat” to reveal White House abuses & the Watergate Scandal broke

• Richard Nixon resigned rather than face impeachment

Gerald Ford• Appointed President after Nixon

resigned• He pardoned Nixon because he wanted the nation to heal and move on!

• First person to be president who was not elected!

Big Events of the ’80s

& ’90s

• Apartheid ends in South Africa in 1989-90

• Nelson Mandela becomes the 1st Black President of South Africa

• PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)- Palestinian (Arab) army that opposed Israel

• During the Cold War, the Soviets backed the Arabs because the U.S. supported Israel

• U.S. depended on oil in the Middle East so peace was necessary

• Carter tried to bring peace to the region in the Camp David Accords

Yassir Arafat,

leader of PLO

Egyptian Pres. Anwar al-Sadat, Jimmy Carter, & Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David

Iran Ayatollah Khomeni, took power from the Shah of Iran

• Iran hostage crisis- American hostages were taken from the U.S. embassy to protest Carter allowing the Shah of Iran to come here for medical treatment

• Hostages were released when Ronald Reagan was elected President

Jimmy Carter• Helped bring peace to

some areas of the Middle East through the Camp David Accords

• Iran hostage crisis• It was a “slap in the

face” when the US hostages were release from Iran after he left the presidency

Ronald Reagan

• Created “Star Wars” (Strategic Defense Initiative), an expensive missile defense system

• Met with Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union… eventually Communism fell, 1989-1990

Iran-Contra Scandal, 1986

• Congress banned support to the Contras of Nicaragua and the U.S. was to support the Sandinistas

• Reagan’s aids sold missiles to the Iran & used the money to support the Contras

• Oliver North was one of the central figures in this scandals

Tiananmen Square, 1989

• Students demonstrating against the Chinese government were killed and arrested by the government

• Economic sanctions were placed against China

Persian Gulf War, (Desert Storm) 1990-1991

• Iraq invaded Kuwait

• Quick war… few Americans killed

Famine in Ethiopia & Somalia

Important Recent Legislation to Remember

• In Texas v. Johnson (1989), the Supreme Court ruled that flag burning is legal and protected by the 1st Amendment

• 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act- protects people with AIDS, mental & physical disabilities by requiring equal access to public transportation & public buildings (ex. Ramps for wheelchairs, Braille); protects disabled from discrimination in employment

• 1998 Microsoft was sued by the U.S. Justice Department for being a monopoly (did not have to break up, but they were convicted of violating anti-trust laws)

• 26th Amendment- lowered voting age from 21 to 18• 27th Amendment- pay raises for Congress had to be

implemented the next year

Economic Policies• Nixon- “stagflation” (unemployment & inflation)• Ford- cut billions from the U.S. budget & raised

taxes on corporations• Carter- oil crisis; created Department of Energy

to conserve energy & research new power sources• Reagan- “Reaganomics”; “trickledown”

economics theory, stated that if corporations had tax cuts, the savings would reach the common people• Reagan cut social programs to pay for heavy defense

spending to scare the Soviets into ending the Cold War• Clinton- signed NAFTA (North American Free

Trade Agreement) to promote trade throughout North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico) by ending tariffs; increased trade by $100 billion

Current Political Trends

Moderates

Right (conservative)

(Republicans)

Left (liberal)

(Democrats)

•Oppose abortion

•Oppose gun control

•Power should be taken from the federal

government & given to the states

•Women’s right to choose to have an abortion

•Support gun control

•Support social programs, which requires “big government”

Politics in the 1980s-1990s

• Christians fundamentalists & other conservatives united to support Reagan in the 1980 Pres. election

• Called themselves the “Moral Majority”

1980

Reagan•Conservative

1988

Bush•Conservative

1992

Clinton•Liberal Policies

•Republican fiscal responsibility

2000

G. W. Bush•Conservative

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first female Supreme Court Justice (1981)

Ruth Ginsburg, 1993

Clarence Thomas, second Black Supreme Court Justice, 1991

Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment