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    Chapter 24 The

    Shattered Society

    I. Johnson and the Great Society


    Kennedy Assassination

    November 22, 1963; Dallas Texas


    President Kennedy Shot and Killed
    A) Johnson
    Great Society
    Civil Rights
    Civil Rights Act of
    1964
    Voting Rights Act
    of 1965
    24th Amendment
    A) Johnson

    War on Poverty
    Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater in
    1964 election
    Medicare
    1. Warren Court

    Judicial activism
    Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
    Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
    Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
    1. Warren Court

    Engle v. Vitale (1962)


    Roth v. United States (1957)
    One man, one vote decisions
    A) Johnson

    Great Society was, on the whole, a failure


    Utopian goals
    B) Vietnam

    Johnson engaged in a full-fledged war


    Escalation
    Maddox
    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
    B) Vietnam

    Viet Cong
    War would be difficult to win:
    Not a clear-cut conflict
    B) Vietnam

    War would be difficult to win:


    Supplies went through Laos & Cambodia
    Government of South Vietnam
    B) Vietnam

    War would be difficult to win:


    Civilians wanted to micromanage the
    war, tended to let politics interfere
    B) Vietnam

    War would be difficult to win:


    Johnson was committed to idea of a
    limited, defensive war
    B) Vietnam

    War would be difficult to win:


    Difficult to tell who was the enemy
    Americans had superior technology
    B) Vietnam

    War would be difficult to win:


    Deception by American govt
    B) Vietnam

    Tet Offensive
    Failure for Communists
    Impact on American people
    Paris Peace Talks
    II. Upheaval

    A) Ethnic Conflict
    Opponents of civil rights movement
    Those demanding civil rights
    B) Urban Riots

    Watts
    Detroit
    Black power groups
    C) Radical Youth

    Dissatisfied, disillusioned
    Antiwar movement
    New Left
    D) Counterculture

    Counterculture
    Rebellion
    Hippie movement
    Much of it ungodly
    D) Counterculture

    Radicals were a minority even among


    their age group
    Worse in other nations
    Shocked Americans
    III. 1968

    Democrats
    Johnson drops out
    Eugene McCarthy
    Robert Kennedy
    Hubert Humphrey
    III. 1968

    Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated


    Robert Kennedy assassinated
    III. 1968

    Nixon front-runner for the Republicans


    Law and order message
    Democratic convention
    III. 1968

    George Wallace
    Nixon wins the election with 43% of
    the vote
    IV. Nixon and the Silent
    Majority

    Nixon claimed to represent its interests


    Busing
    IV. Nixon and the Silent
    Majority

    Economic problems
    Inflation
    New Economic Policy
    A) Diplomacy

    China
    Nixon visited Communist China
    Public relations success
    A) Diplomacy

    Russia
    Henry Kissinger
    Detente
    SALT
    B) Vietnam

    Vietnamization
    Expanded into Cambodia and
    Laos
    Massive bombing, mining,
    blockading of North Vietnam
    C) Dissent at Home

    My Lai massacre
    William Calley
    Kent State
    Pentagon Papers
    D) Vietnam

    Agreement reached early in 1973


    U.S. troops come home
    POWs released
    South Vietnam given arms to defend itself
    D) Vietnam

    North Vietnam overruns South Vietnam


    in 1975
    Wave of isolationism in America
    Reasons American lost
    C) 1972
    Nixons chances of re-election looked good
    Democrats
    George Wallace
    George McGovern
    Thomas Eagleton
    C) 1972

    Nixon won 49 states


    would be discredited within 2 years
    The End!

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