Unit 21: 1960s Cold War Battlefields · •John F. Kennedy uses the first ever televised...
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Unit 21: 1960s Cold War Battlefields
OHS US HISTORY TEAM
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Learning Objectives
• Analyze the impact of television and mass media on the American home, politics, and economy
• Describe President John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier programs to improve education, end discrimination, create the peace Corps and put a man on the moon.
• Describe the causes, course, and consequences of the Vietnam War
• Compare the policies and practices of presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon and their impacts on the continuation of the Vietnam War.
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Big Concepts• Vietnam, a small primarily Buddhist agricultural country in South East Asia had long be under the
control of France (Imperialism).
• Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh, a communist, sought to expel the French from the country.
• Waging a guerilla war against the French army the French leave and agree to divide the country into two. North Vietnam (communist) and South Vietnam (non-communist).
• Ho Chi Minh seeks to unite the country under one communist state and begins a military campaign against South Vietnam.
• America’s Cold War policy of containment brings American advisors and military support into South Vietnam.
• John F. Kennedy uses the first ever televised presidential debates to defeat Vice President Richard Nixon in the 1960 election.
• President Kennedy faces communist challenges in Cuba and Vietnam and must deal with the new leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev.
• Kennedy is assassinated in 1963 while visiting Dallas, Texas.
• Lyndon Johnson, his vice president, becomes President.
• Throughout the 1960s American military involvement in Vietnam increases and includes the deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops in bloody and controversial conflict
• The Vietnam War destroys Lyndon Johnson’s presidency who vows not to run for reelection in 1968.
• Richard Nixon returns and wins the 1968 presidential election in the greatest political comeback of all time.
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Vocabulary
• Yellow – must copy
• Green – copy if time permits
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Television
• Television slowly replaces the radio as America’s new entertainment and communication tool.
• The 1960 presidential debates are the first ever televised.
• Kennedy young and tan impresses the audience
• Nixon recovering from a cold looks pale and sweaty.
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Kennedy’s New Frontier
• Improve the education system – fears of falling behind to Soviets
• Continue the containment of communism
• Fight racial discrimination
• Peace Corp - provide social and economic development abroad
• Put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s –Apollo Missions
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Cuban Missile Crisis• Cuba falls to communist rebels led by Fidel Castro
• Castro allies Cuba with the Soviet Union
• Bay of Pigs Invasion - Kennedy attempts a CIA backed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Castro.
• The invasion fails and makes Kennedy look weak.
• Fidel allows Nikita Khrushchev's Soviet Union to build nuclear missile launch pads on the island.
• In a tense standoff the United States and Soviet Union almost go to war over Cuba.
• The Soviets agree at the last minute to remove the missiles.
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Vietnam – Early Involvement• 1954 – Geneva Accords – Vietnam divided into two countries.
• 1955 - North Vietnam begins guerilla war against South Vietnam
• Eisenhower and Kennedy begins their policies of containment by providing military supplies and advisors to South Vietnam.
• 1965 – President Johnson claims that an American naval vessel is attacked by North Vietnam.
• 1965 – Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution allowing the President to deploy combat troops into Vietnam.
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• <-Vietnam
• Ho Chi Minh ->
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Vietnam War
• By 1968 there are over 500,000 American soldiers in South Vietnam.
• The United States uses napalm (long burning fire bomb) and Agent Orange (chemical that kills trees and vegetation).
• North Vietnam and its Viet Cong guerilla fighters use the jungle to hide and evade the United States military.
• 1968 – Johnson declares that the United States is winning the war
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1968 – Tet Offensive• North Vietnam and the Viet Cong
launch surprise attacks across South Vietnam.
• The attacks shock the United States.
• Much of it is shown on television.
• American’s begin turning against the war.
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Anti-War Movement• 1969 - The United States begins a draft by
lottery for the war
• This becomes very unpopular especially among college students.
• Television showing America’s military campaigns against a third world country spark anger towards the government.
• The anti-war movement against President Johnson and the democrats sparks confrontations across America’s college campuses and cities.
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Nixon’s Vietnam Strategy
• Nixon begins to remove America’s military from Vietnam through a policy of heavy bombing and Vietnamization.
• Vietnamization – the idea to replace American soldiers with trained South Vietnamese soldiers.
• Bombing – Nixon heavily bombs North Vietnam and Cambodia (a neutral country)
• These policies fail as Nixon removes the last troops and North Vietnam conquers South Vietnam.
• The war officially ends in 1975
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Space Race• 1963-1972 - The Apollo Program designed to land humans on the
Moon and bring them safely back to Earth.
• Six of the missions (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) achieved this goal.
• Apollo 11 – Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
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Satellite Imagery of landing sites
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