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Learning Objectives
- How was the Cold War the "seedbed" of the Sixties?
- What was the "American Century?"
- How was the post-war situation a "troubled peace?"
- Why did the United States abandon its traditional foreign policy and begin supporting colonial powers following World War II?
- What was McCarthyism?
- What was the "domino theory?"
- Why were the people who came of age in the mid-1950s called "the silent generation?"
- What factors made the 1950s "happy days?"
- What were the factors that contributed to the emergence of the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s?
- What were the important features of the evolution of the Civil Rights Movement’s tactics between 1960 and 1963?
- What were the differences between the key foreign policies of the Kennedy administration, particularly with regard to Vietnam and Cuba?
- What were the important goals of the Civil Rights Movement?
- What were the differences between the responses of the federal and local governments to the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s?
- What were the tactics that local governments used to thwart federal law when it came to equal rights for African-Americans?
- How did Cold War tensions facilitate the Civil Rights, environmental, and anti-war movements of the early 1960s?
- How was television important to American politics and the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s?
- What was the role of the Baby Boom in fomenting the student protest movement of the 1960s?
- What is the difference between the liberal and conservative attitudes towards the role of the federal government?
- What is the difference between liberal and conservative positions on U.S. foreign policy, particularly with regard to the Soviet Union and Vietnam?
- What are the reasons that led to President Lyndon Johnson increasing the U.S. military presence in Vietnam?
- What are the key Great Society policies?
- What were the political, economic, and social challenges facing African-Americans in the United States?
- What is the difference between the "Black Power" movement and the Civil Rights Movement?
- What is the difference between Martin Luther King, Jr.’s goals and tactics and those of Malcolm X?
- What were the reasons for the emergence of the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s?
- Why did the war in Vietnam become such a potent political issue in America during the mid-1960s?
- How did the "white power" emerge from the "black power" movement of the mid-1960s?
- 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?
- What is Tet Offensive?
- How was the "Black Power" movement different from the civil rights movement?
- What was the difference between Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey's campaign platform and that of Republican nominee Richard Nixon’s?
- What were the most important political issues at stake in the 1968 presidential election?
- What were the differences between Richard Nixon’s and George Wallace's platforms during the 1968 election?
- What was the difference between Robert Kennedy’s and Eugene McCarthy’s positions on Vietnam during the spring and summer of 1968?
- What is the difference between the terms "establishment" and "counterculture?"
- What is the difference between "hippie" and "establishment" culture?
- What are the important causes of hippie movement?
- What are the most important causes for the decline of the counterculture movement?
- What is the difference between "counterculture's" and the "establishment's" attitudes toward sex and drug use?
- What were the three themes of Nixon’s 1968 presidential campaign?
- Compare and contrast President Johnson's "Great Society" with President Nixon’s "New Federalism."
- How were President Nixon's Vietnam policies different from those of President Johnson?
- In what ways did President Nixon both expand and contract the American war in Vietnam?
- How did the challenges that Hispanic Americans faced differ from the challenges faced by African-Americans in the late 1960s?
- What was the Philadelphia Plan? Did it represent the continuation of the Johnson’s administration’s civil rights policies or was it something new?
- How reasonable would it be to characterize American society as in a state of "civil war" during 1969 and 1970?
- How did the Nixon Administration's actions inflame civil unrest during the early 1970s?
- What were The Pentagon Papers, and how did they influence the Nixon Administration's domestic policies?
- 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?
- Compare and contrast the various "liberation" movements of the early 1970s with the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s.
- What were the differences between a "New Democrat" and a traditional Democrat?
- What were the reasons for the demise of the 1960s culture?
- How did the legacy of the 1960s change American politics?
- Why have Great Society programs remained controversial?
- In what ways did the 1960s represent a watershed moment for minority rights?
- Why have minorities won their rights but not achieved equality?
- What does the statement "Gender also matters, but less than before" mean?