Information to cover and relevant websites:

 

Domestic events

  • How the use of television affected the Kennedy-Nixon election
  • What makes John F. Kennedy unique as a president?
  • How Kennedy responded to communist threats such as the Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile crisis, and Berlin Wall
  • JFK's Assassination
  • Lee Harvey Oswald
  • Conclusion reached by the Warren Commission
  • Major initiatives of the New Frontier
  • Overall goal and major initiatives of the Great Society
  • Criticisms of the Great Society
  • Peace Corps
  • Alliance for Progress
  • Medicare
  • Medicaid
  • How the Warren Court affected civil liberties in America

 

Vietnam

  • History of the Vietnam conflict (before the USA)
  • Nations involved in the Vietnam War
  • Main goals of the US involvement in the Vietnam War
  • Major events of the Vietnam War
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution
  • Vietnamization
  • What the consequences of the Vietnam War were on the division and government of Vietnam, American and Vietnamese loss of life, and Refugees
  • Purpose of the War Powers Act
  • Domestic consequences of the Invasion of Cambodia (Repeal of Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, General Student strikes, Kent State)
  • How LBJ increased US involvement in Vietnam
  • Pentagon Papers
  • Life for a soldier in Vietnam

 

the Cold War continues...

  • NATO vs the Warsaw Pact
  • The Bay of Pigs invasion
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Flexible Response
  • Berlin Wall
  • the "missile gap"
  • The Space Race
  • Czechoslovakia
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution
  • Tet offensive
  • War Powers Act
  • Arab-Israeli war in 1967
  • France in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh
  • The start of US involvement in Vietnam
  • Major events of 1968 - Tet Offensive, War protests

 

Cultural Clashes in the USA

  • Events of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Doves
  • Hawks
  • How Goldwater’s hawkishness affected the 1964 election
  • The draft and deferment
  • Hippies and the countercultue
  • Kent State
  • General student strikes
  • Eugene McCarthy’s position on the war in Vietnam
  • San Fransisco, Haight-Asbury
  • Woodstock
  • Major events of 1968 (Assassinations of MLK and RFK, War protests, election of 1968)
  • Sex, drugs, rock and roll