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JFK
LBJ Speech on Voting Rights
Shock Troops of the Revolution
Freedom Rides
Eyes on the Prize: No Easy Walk
Civil Rights to Selma
CHAPTER 29 – Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism
1. EXPANDING THE LIBERAL STATE
a. John Kennedy
b. Lyndon Johnson
c. The Assault on Poverty
d. Cities, Schools, and Immigration
e. Legacies of the Great Society
2. THE BATTLE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY
a. Expanding Protests
b. A National Commitment
c. The Battle for Voting Rights
d. The Changing Movement
e. Urban Violence
f. Black Power
g. Malcolm X
3. “FLEXIBLE RESPONSE” AND THE COLD WAR
a. Diversifying Foreign Policy
b. Confrontations with the Soviet Union
c. Johnson and the World
4. THE AGONY OF VIETNAM
a. The First Indochina War
b. Geneva and the Two Vietnams
c. America and Diem
d. From Aid to Intervention
e. The Quagmire
f. The War at Home
5. THE TRAUMAS OF 1968
a. The Tet Offensive
b. The Political Challenge
c. The King and Kennedy Assassinations
d. The Conservative Response
Essential Terms
The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...
- containment
- Korea
- Vietnam
- Cold War
- coexistence
- detente
- nonaligned nations
- communism
- Middle East
- military-industrial complex
- non-violent protests
- racial discrimination
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- desegregation
- private sector suburbanization
- Sun Belt
- counterculture
FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.
- Bay of Pigs
- Black Power
- Community Action Program
- Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
- Cuban missile crisis
- Dien Bien Phu
- Freedom Rides
- Freedom Summer
- George Wallace
- Great Society
- Gulf of Tonkin resolution
- Ho Chi Minh
- Ho Chi Minh trail
- Immigration Act of 1965
- Malcolm X
- March on Washington
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- New Frontier
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Richard Nixon
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
- Tet offensive
- Viet Cong
- Black Panthers
Black Power
Indochina
Two Vietnams
Quagmire
America's War
In Country
Homefront
Tet
CIVIL RIGHTS
Eyes on the Prize
Ghosts of Mississippi
Mississippi Burning
Malcolm X
Separate But Equal
The Long Walk Home
VIETNAM
Hearts and Minds
Fog of War
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
The Deer Hunter
We Were Soldiers
Platoon
Born on the Fourth of July
Forrest Gump
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