CHAPTER OUTLINE

The New Frontier The 1960 election Nixon’s experience Kennedy’s background Campaign Televised debates Results Start of the administration Appointments Inaugural address Legislative achievements Urban renewal, minimum wage, social security Alliance for Progress Peace Corps Trade Expansion Act Warren Court School prayer Rights of defendants Civil rights movement Kennedy’s attitude Mass protests Sit-ins Greensboro Formation of SNCC Freedom rides Role of music Federal action University of Mississippi King in Birmingham New strategy Letter from jail University of Alabama March on Washington, D.C. Kennedy and foreign affairs Early Setbacks Bay of Pigs disaster Vienna Summit Berlin Cuban missile crisis Causes of crisis Kennedy’s action Resolution of crisis Aftereffects Vietnam Neutrality for Laos Problems with Diem Kennedy’s reluctance to escalate Overthrow of Diem Assassination of President Kennedy Lee Harvey Oswald Warren Commission Continuing controversy Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society Lyndon Johnson Personal style New Dealer Goals War on poverty The Other America 1964 tax cut Economic Opportunity Act Election in 1964 Goldwater—choice not echo LBJ appeals to consensus Johnson landslide Landmark legislation Health insurance Aid to education Appalachian redevelopment Housing and urban development Immigration Act of 1965 End to national quotas Influx from Asia and Latin America Shortcomings of Great Society From civil rights to black power Race riots of 1965 and 1966 Plight of urban blacks Call for black power Stokely Carmichael Black Panther party Malcolm X Assessment of black power Limited appeal Spurs pride in racial heritage Prompts new stage in civil rights movement Backlash The tragedy of Vietnam Escalation Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Bombing and combat troops in 1965 Context for policy Containment theory Not an accident Erosion of support for war Unity of North Vietnamese Turning point of the war Tet Offensive Presidential primaries LBJ decides not to run The crescendo of the sixties Assassinations in 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. Robert F. Kennedy Election of 1968 Chicago and Miami George Wallace Election of Nixon