Where are we?Where are we?40-42 This weekTwo big Themes:1. Cold War / Vietnam2. Civil RightsTHUR @12:15 – Section II * FRI @ 6:30 Review½ Today & Friday = Civil RightsMonday 5/1 – 70s @ HomeTuesday 5/2 – 80s Wednesday 5/3 – Postwar Wrap-UpThursday 5/4 – Strategery & MindsetWe will not be . . .

1919French IndochinaHo Chi Minh –Asks Wilson –result -1954US Aid to -Dien Bien Phu -Geneva Accords divide Vietnam

North (Ho) =South (Diem) =

terms & conceptsterms & concepts“domino theory” –

Viet Cong –

Ho Chi Minh Trail -

terms & conceptsterms & concepts

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President Policy Towards VietnamPresident Policy Towards VietnamTruman –

Eisenhower –

Kennedy –

Johnson –

Tonkin Gulf Resolution (’64) –

Allowed -

terms & conceptsterms & concepts“domino theory” –Viet Cong –Ho Chi Minh Trail -guerilla war –counter-insurgency tactics –NapalmAgent Orangecarpet bombing of HCM trail“The Second Front” –“television war” –Americas Longest War

19641964Lyndon Johnson electedTonkin Gulf Resolution -1965U.S. ground divisions arrive in Vietnam1968½ million U.S. troopsTet Offensive -

impact at home -Democratic Convention in Chicago -Nixon elected - invasion of Cambodia -

19681968

Where are we?Where are we?40-42 This weekTwo big Themes:1. Cold War / Vietnam2. Civil RightsTHUR @12:15 – Section II * FRI @ 6:30 Review½ Today & Friday = Civil RightsMonday 5/1 – 70s @ HomeTuesday 5/2 – 80s Wednesday 5/3 – Postwar Wrap-UpThursday 5/4 – Strategery & MindsetWe will not be . . .

TetTet

19641964 Lyndon Johnson elected Tonkin Gulf Resolution - 1965 U.S. ground divisions arrive in Vietnam

1968 ½ million U.S. troops Tet Offensive -

impact at home - Democratic Convention in Chicago -

Nixon elected -“Vietnamization” -

1969My Lai massacre exposed -1970invasion of Cambodia –Kent State -1971Pentagon Papers Published -26th Amendment passed -

1973secret bombing of Cambodia revealedcease-fire in VietnamWar Powers Act -

1975North Vietnamese victory in Vietnam -

America EvacuatesAmerica Evacuates

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -Jim Crow Laws -Segregation in the Northde facto / de jure - “ghetto” -“the black belt” -WWII – 70,000 -

100 Years Later

N.A.A.C.P. -Brown v. Board of Education (1954) -Thurgood Marshall -The “Southern Manifesto” -White Citizens Councils -“The Little Rock Nine” -

Segregation & Education

The Philosophy of NonviolenceJesus, Thoreau, Gandhicivil-disobediencepeaceful nonviolencemass protest

Tools of Non-Violenceboycottssit-insfill the jailspassive resistanceexamples of injusticepeople’s movement -

The Philosophy of Nonviolence

Montgomery Bus Boycott (’55)Rosa ParksMLK jr. – SCLCSouthern Christian Leadership ConferenceMLK jr. is presidentSNCCStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Alabama, 1963

March on Washington, 1963

Freedom Summer, 1964

Malcolm X –Nation of Islam

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 –banned - created EEOC –

Voting Rights Act of 1965 –marks a turn –

Stokely Carmichael –“black power” -

black nationalism –Marcus Garvey (20s) –

Black Panthers -