Chapter 29: The Turbulent Years
1960-1968

     I. John F. Kennedy 1961-1963
          A. Domestic Agenda (New Frontier)
                1. Problems with Congress
                2. Failures
                    a. health insurance for the aged
                    b. Department of Urban Affairs
                    c. education bill
               3. Successes
                    a. Peace Corps
                    b. Space program
                    c. Minimum wage raised; more Social Security benefits
          B. Civil Rights
               1. Sit-ins
               2. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
                    a. Freedom Riders
               3. James Meredith
               4. "I Have a Dream"
          C. Feminism
               1. Equal Pay Act of 1963
               2. The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan)
          D. Foreign Policy
               1. Cold War continues
                    a. Bay of Pigs
                    b. Berlin Wall
                    c. Cuban Missile Crisis
               2. Viet Nam
                    a. "flexible response"
                    b. civil unrest, Diem falls
          E. Assassination
               1. November 22, 1961
               2. Warren Commission investigates conspiracy theories

     II. Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1968
          A. Domestic Agenda (The Great Society)
               1. Tax Cuts
               2. War on Poverty
               3. Major Legislation
                    a. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
                    b. Medicare and Medicaid
                    c. HUD and Dept of Transportation established
               4. Civil Rights
                    a. Civil Rights Act of 1964
                    b. Voting Rights Act of 1965
                    c. MLK Jr. assassinated, April 1968
               5. Women's Rights (Women's Liberation or Women's Lib)
                    1. Equal Rights Amendment
               6. Counterculture
          B. Foreign Affairs-Viet Nam war expands
               1. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
               2. Operation Rolling Thunder
               3. increasing domestic discontent
               4. Tet Offensive
               5.  Address to nation, March 31, 1968
             

Key Terms

      Peace Corps
     Alan Shepard
     John Glenn
     Bay of Pigs
     Berlin Wall
     Nikita Krushchev
     Freedom Riders
     James Meredith
     Cuban Missile Crisis
     "hotline"
     flexible response
     special forces (Green Berets)
     Equal Pay Act of 1963
     Betty Friedan
     The Feminine Mystique
     Lee Harvey Oswald
     Jack Ruby
     conspiracy theories
     Civil Rights Act of 1964
     Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
     food stamps
     Head Start
     socialized medicine
     Medicare
     Medicaid
     Pleiku
     Operation Rolling Thunder
     NOW (National Organization of Women)
     hippies
     Tet Offensive
     Robert F. Kennedy