Week+31+Reading

Ch 28 - Eisenhower and the 1950s
Review: AMSCO Ch 27 [|APUSH 1950s outline.pdf] Ch 28 Eisenhower Administration outline:

__Mon 3/26__


 * pp. 1117-1121**

Skim the section on poverty in the 1950s. Know the Kinsey Reports.


 * pp. 1125-1131**

Sputnik, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), "missile gap," atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, U-2 spyplane incident, Francis Gary Powers, Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista, John Kenneth Galbraith, //The Affluent Society//, 1958 National Defense Education Act, 1960 presidential election, Vice President Richard Nixon, Sen. John F. "Jack" Kennedy (D-MA), PT-109, //Profiles in Courage//, Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX), JFK's Catholicism, Kennedy-Nixon [|TV debates]

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

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.

__Tues 3/27__

//Dr. Strangelove// writing assignment


 * pp. 1137-1144**

JFK's assassination, Jackie Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby, [|President LBJ], [|John F. Kennedy Jr.], the "New Frontier," Kennedy's domestic policies (p. 1141), JFK's proposed tax cuts, "flexible response" military strategy, JFK's military buildup, USAID, the Peace Corps, US military Special Forces, Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961 Vienna summit, 1961 (second) Berlin Crisis, brain drain, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's "naval quarantine," US-USSR hotline

__Weds 3/28__


 * pp. 1146-1152**

Warren Commission, "Landslide Lyndon," LBJ's War on Poverty, //The Other America//, Economic Opportunity Act, Head Start, VISTA, Office of Economic Opportunity, Sargent Shriver, community action program, "maximum feasible participation," equality of opportunity vs. economic //equality//, impact of the War on Poverty, 1964 presidential election, Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN), Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), LBJ's Great Society: 1. Medicare/Medicaid, 2. federal aid to schools (1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act), 3. Immigration Act of 1965, 4. Voting Rights Act, LBJ's environmental legislation, Chief Justice Earl Warren, judicial activism, //Brown v. Board of Education//, //Engel v. Vitale//, //Griswold v. Connecticut//, "right to privacy," //Reynolds v. Sims//, "one man one vote," //Gideon v. Wainwright//, //Escobedo v. Illinois//, //Miranda v. Arizona//

__Thurs 3/29__


 * pp 1152-1157**

Greensboro sit-ins, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (say "snick"), CORE, Freedom Rides, Albany Campaign, "We Shall Overcome," James Meredith, Gov. Ross Barnett, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Birmingham Campaign, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Alabama governor George Wallace, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (SNCC + CORE + NAACP + Urban League + SCLC, "I Have a Dream," 1964 Civil Rights Act, Mississippi Freedom Democrats, 1964 Democratic convention, Selma to Montgomery march, Sheriff Jim Clark, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Edmund Pettus Bridge, 1965 Voting Rights Act

__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