The Turbulent 1960’s

Kennedy for President

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1960-1963)

The Kennedy’s

“Camelot”

The “New Frontier”& “Great Society”

Medicare

Office of Economic Opportunity

Community Action

The Housing Act of 1961

The Department of Housing and Urban Development

Secondary Education Act of 1965

Immigration Act of 1965

The Results of the “Great Society” reforms

The Youthful White House

Just 15 school days before the APUSH exam…May 8th!

• Rosa Parks paper due Wed.• Re-read/study all your notes & textbook—

every night• Make a list of questions/subjects that you do

not fully understand• Study—memorize vocab to use on the

APUSH exam• APUSH breakfast will be in my room from

7:15am-7:45am—exam begins at 8

JFK’s Foreign Policy

Special forces

Agency for International Development

Peace Corps

Bay of Pigs (Apr. 1961)

The Berlin Wall (Aug. 13, 1961)

Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962)

Kennedy & Krushchev“It’s going to be a cold winter 1961”

The Iron Curtain

The total length of the Berlin Wall was 96 miles.

Twenty-seven miles went through the center of the city.

Twenty-three miles went through residential areas.

Sixty-six miles comprised a concrete barrier 13 feet high.

It also consisted of 302 watch towers and 20 bunkers.

More than 5,000 people successfully crossed the Berlin Wall to freedom.

About 3,200 people were arrested in the border area.

More than 160 people were killed in the death area, and another 120 people were injured.

The Berlin Wall

Krushchev & Castro

Cuban Missile Crisis

Kennedy visits Berlin

The Assassination of JFK

Lee Harvey Oswald

Jack Ruby

Conspiracy Theories

Warren Report

Kennedy Funeral

Lee Harvey Oswald

Texas School Book Depository

Jack Ruby

A year after his conviction, in March 1965, Ruby conducted a brief televised news conference in which he stated: "Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world." When asked by a reporter: "Are these people in very high positions Jack?" he responded "Yes."[Dallas Deputy Sheriff Al Maddox claimed: "Ruby told me, he said, 'Well, they injected me for a cold.' He said it was cancer cells. That's what he told me, Ruby did. I said you don't believe that ____. He said, 'I damn sure do!' [Then] one day when I started to leave, Ruby shook hands with me and I could feel a piece of paper in his palm.... [In this note] he said it was a conspiracy and he said ... if you will keep your eyes open and your mouth shut, you're gonna learn a lot. And that was the last letter I ever got from him."

Not long before Ruby died, according to an article in the London Sunday Times, he told psychiatrist Werner Teuter, that the assassination was "an act of overthrowing the government" and that he knew "who had President Kennedy killed." He added: "I am doomed. I do not want to die. But I am not insane. I was framed to kill Oswald."[Eventually, the appellate court agreed with Ruby's lawyers for a new trial, and on October 5, 1966, ruled that his motion for a change of venue before the original trial court should have been granted. Ruby's conviction and death sentence were overturned. Arrangements were underway for a new trial to be held in February 1967, in Wichita Falls, Texas, when, on December 9, 1966, Ruby was admitted to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, suffering from pneumonia. A day later, doctors realized he had cancer in his liver, lungs, and brain.

Ruby made a final statement from his hospital bed on December 19 that he and he alone had been responsible for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald.["There is nothing to hide," Ruby said. "There was no one else."

Lyndon B. Johnson

The Vietnam War

Map of Vietnam

The War During Johnson & Nixon Administrations

French involvementGeneva Accords

Division of VietnamViet Minh-Viet Cong (NLF)Emperor Bao Dai

Elections in VietnamSEATO

Ngo Dinh Diem (RVN)Nhu

Fall of Dien Bien Phu

Ho Chi Minh

Anti-war protest against Diem

Buddhist Monk Protest

Duong Van Minh ousts Diem

Battles and Conflicts

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Agent Orange

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Maddox and Turner Joy

The Tet Offensive

Napalm Explosion

The Evils of War

My Lai

Lt. William Calley

Lt. William Calley

An End to Vietnam

Repeal of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

Cooper-Church Amendment

“Christmas bombings”

Treaty of Paris

Nixon’s secret treaty

Nguyen van Thieu

Cambodian Mercenaries

Bombing of North Vietnam

U.S. Bombing of Cambodia

Student Rebellion

Students for a Democratic Society

“The New Left”

Freedom of Speech Movement

University of California, Berkeley

The Counterculture

Hippies

“Sexual revolution”

Drug culture

Rock-n-roll

The “Hippie” Soldier

Hippies vs Soldiers

The public reacts to Vietnam

Sen. J. William FulbrightA downturn in the economyProtests & student demonstrations

“teach-ins”Mobilization against the war

March against DeathThe MoratoriumThe Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg

Protests against Vietnam at home

Kent State Protests lead to violence

Nixon agrees to a cease-fire

Nguyen Van Thieu

The draft in Vietnam

The lottery system

Anti-war sentiment in veterans

“fragging”

U.S. Marines in Vietnam

Results of the Vietnam War

Costs

Causalities

Physical destruction

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1982

America’s new policy towards war

Foreign Assistance Appropriation Act

The Vietnam Wall