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Learning Objectives

  1. How was the Cold War the "seedbed" of the Sixties?
  2. What was the "American Century?"
  3. How was the post-war situation a "troubled peace?"
  4. Why did the United States abandon its traditional foreign policy and begin supporting colonial powers following World War II?
  5. What was McCarthyism?
  6. What was the "domino theory?"
  7. Why were the people who came of age in the mid-1950s called "the silent generation?"
  8. What factors made the 1950s "happy days?"
  1. What were the factors that contributed to the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s?
  2. What were the important features of the evolution of the Civil Rights Movement’s tactics between 1960 and 1963?
  3. What were the differences between the key foreign policies of the Kennedy administration, particularly with regard to Vietnam and Cuba?
  4. What were the important goals of the Civil Rights Movement?
  5. What were the differences between the responses of the federal and local governments to the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s?
  6. What were the tactics that local governments used to thwart federal law when it came to equal rights for African-Americans?
  7. How did Cold War tensions facilitate the Civil Rights, environmental, and anti-war movements of the early 1960s?
  8. How was television important to American politics and the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s?
  1. What was the role of the Baby Boom in fomenting the student protest movement of the 1960s?
  2. What is the difference between the liberal and conservative attitudes towards the role of the federal government?
  3. What is the difference between liberal and conservative positions on U.S. foreign policy, particularly with regard to the Soviet Union and Vietnam?
  4. What are the reasons that led to President Lyndon Johnson increasing the U.S. military presence in Vietnam?
  5. What are the key Great Society policies?
  1. What were the political, economic, and social challenges facing African-Americans in the United States?
  2. What is the difference between the "Black Power" movement and the Civil Rights Movement?
  3. What is the difference between Martin Luther King, Jr.’s goals and tactics and those of Malcolm X?
  4. What were the reasons for the emergence of the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s?
  5. Why did the war in Vietnam become such a potent political issue in America during the mid-1960s?
  6. How did the "white power" emerge from the "black power" movement of the mid-1960s?
  7. What were the inequities of the United States military’s draft policies and what roles did those inequities played in mobilizing the black power and student resistance movements?
  1. What is Tet Offensive?
  2. How was the "Black Power" movement different from the civil rights movement?
  3. What was the difference between Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey's campaign platform and that of Republican nominee Richard Nixon’s?
  4. What were the most important political issues at stake in the 1968 presidential election?
  5. What were the differences between Richard Nixon’s and George Wallace's platforms during the 1968 election?
  6. What was the difference between Robert Kennedy’s and Eugene McCarthy’s positions on Vietnam during the spring and summer of 1968?
  1. What is the difference between the terms "establishment" and "counterculture?"
  2. What is the difference between "hippie" and "establishment" culture?
  3. What are the important causes of hippie movement?
  4. What are the most important causes for the decline of the counterculture movement?
  5. What is the difference between "counterculture's" and the "establishment's" attitudes toward sex and drug use?
  1. What were the three themes of Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign?
  2. Compare and contrast President Johnson's "Great Society" with President Nixon’s "New Federalism."
  3. How were President Nixon's Vietnam policies different from those of President Johnson?
  4. In what ways did President Nixon both expand and contract the American war in Vietnam?
  5. How did the challenges that Hispanic Americans faced differ from the challenges faced by African-Americans in the late 1960s?
  6. What was the Philadelphia Plan? Did it represent the continuation of the Johnson’s administration’s civil rights policies or was it something new?
  7. How reasonable would it be to characterize American society as in a state of "civil war" during 1969 and 1970?
  1. How did the Nixon Administration's actions inflame civil unrest during the early 1970s?
  2. What were The Pentagon Papers, and how did they influence the Nixon Administration's domestic policies?
  3. Given that The Pentagon Papers contained nothing about President Nixon’s Vietnam policy, why was President Nixon so concerned about their publication? Was he right to be so concerned?
  4. Compare and contrast the various "liberation" movements of the early 1970s with the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s.
  5. What were the differences between a "New Democrat" and a traditional Democrat?
  6. What were the reasons for the demise of the 1960s culture?
  1. How did the legacy of the 1960s change American politics?
  2. Why have Great Society programs remained controversial?
  3. In what ways did the 1960s represent a watershed moment for minority rights?
  4. Why have minorities won their rights but not achieved equality?
  5. What does the statement "Gender also matters, but less than before" mean?