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Ch 29 - The 1960s
Review text and practice MCQ: AMSCO Ch 28

I updated Week 31 with JFK and LBJ pages and terms. The weekend assignment below is also at the end of that page.

About the Vietnam War: I'm not going to be asking you to read the text's coverage of the Vietnam War starting here. Instead, I'll lecture on that either just before or just after Spring Break. If you miss those notes, get them from someone else.

__ Weekend 3/30-4/1 __


 * pp. 1164-1168 **

1950s and 1960s youth culture, Beats, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, "counterculture," Timothy Leary, LSD, psychedelia, Bob Dylan, rock and roll, the Beatles, Ed Sullivan show, Rolling Stones, Students for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement, the New Left, SNCC Freedom Summers, Free Speech Movement, the New Right, William F. Buckley, Young Americans for Freedom, Watts Riots, late 1960s urban/racial violence, National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Stokely Carmichael, black power, Malcolm X, Nation of Islam

(skip section on antiwar movement)


 * pp. 1169-1176 **

1968 presidential primaries and election, Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D-MN), Sen. Robert Kennedy (D-NY), LBJ drops out, MLK's assassination and riots, James Earl Ray, RFK's assassination, Sirhan Sirhan, 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, American Independence Party, Nixon's 1968 law and order campaign, President RN

__ Mon 4/2 __

Five chapters (26-30) of Vietnam War: [|Google Presentation]

You may start reading Ch. 30, but the first section (pp. 1184-1192) is almost 100% Vietnam. Use tonight to review Ch. 28 for Wednesday's MCQ test.

__ Tues 4/3 __

Review BOTH text Ch. 28 and Ch. 29 for Wednesday. Remember that NO Vietnam material will be tested.

AMSCO Ch. 27 (1950s, Ike) MCQ key: 1-B 2-D 3-A 4-D 5-D 6-C 7-E 8-B 9-D 10-A AMSCO Ch. 28 (1960s, JFK/LBJ) MCQ key: 1-C 2-D 3-B 4-A 5-E 6-D 7-B (8-C 9-B 10-A Vietnam questions)