1960s culture and the beginning of the vietnam war unit 10, lesson 5
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1960s Culture and the Beginning of the Vietnam War
Unit 10, Lesson 5
Essential Idea
• The 1960s was a time of social and political upheaval, which grew during the Vietnam War.
1960s Youth and Politics• Relation to Civil Rights struggles• SDS (Students for a Democratic Society)• New Left• Free Speech Movement• Student protests• The Weathermen
The Counterculture Movement
• Hippies • Characteristics• Haight-Ashbury
District • Music
– Woodstock • Legacy• Counterculture
Sexual Revolution
• Challenges to traditional values– Alfred Kinsey
• Medical influences
• Popular culture• Homosexuality
– Stonewall Rebellion (1969)
• Eventual backlash
Women’s Movement
• Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963)
• NOW (National Organization of Women)
Equal Rights Amendment
• Title IX (1972)• ERA (Equal
Rights Amendment, 1972)
• Phyllis Schlafly
• Fate of ERA• Legacy of
Women’s Movement
• Feminism
The Vietnam War• Cultural impact• Political impact • Foreign Policy impact
Vietnam
• North Vietnam
• South Vietnam
• Vietcong
• Invasion
Background
• Cold War • Domino Theory• JFK and
Vietnam– “Advisers”– Diem– Instability– South Vietnam
Falling Apart
LBJ Inherits Vietnam
• LBJ and Vietnam
• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
• Legal war?
• Great Society vs. Vietnam
The Vietnam War
• Saigon • Operation Rolling Thunder (1965)• Troop escalation• General William Westmoreland
Fighting Conditions
• Vietcong tactics– Guerilla
fighting– Blending in
• American reactions
Fighting Conditions
• American tactics– “Search and destroy”– Napalm– Agent Orange
• Consequences
• The War Escalates
The “Credibility Gap”• Hawks and Doves• “Hearts and Minds” • Fighting Continues• “Credibility Gap”• The “TV War”
Protests• The Draft• 26th Amendment (1971)• The Antiwar Movement• World reaction to Vietnam
Tet Offensive
• Tet Offensive (1968)• Military results• Political results• Tet Offensive
LBJ Scales Down the War
• LBJ announces withdrawal
• LBJ “steps down”
• 1968 peace talks
Election of 1968• 1968• Robert Kennedy
(Democrat)– Assassination (1968)
• Democratic National Convention
• Chicago riots
Election of 1968• Hubert Humphrey (Democrat)• George Wallace (American Independent)• Richard Nixon (Republican)• The Country in Turmoil
Election of 1968• Results• Another return to normalcy?