HIST 208 Study Guide, Part IV

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29. Postwar Consensus?

Eisenhower's Moderate Republicanism
- 1952 Election
- Moderate Politics
- Economic Boom
Interstates, Malls, and McDonald's
- Suburban Growth
- National Interstate and Defense Hwy Act
- Shopping Malls
- "Baby Boom"?
- McDs
The Cold War Continues
- Sputnik
- Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate

30. Civil Rights Movement

The Fifties
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Linda Brown
- Thurgood Marshall / Clark's Dolls
- Legacy
Little Rock Central High (1957)
- Little Rock Nine
- Gov. Orval Faubus's blockade
- Pres. Eisenhower's federal intervention
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
- Rosa Parks
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

31. John F. Kennedy

JFK's New Frontier (1960)
- Young, Handsome, and Roman Catholic
- Containment and Social Justice
- TV Debate with Nixon
- "Ask not..." Inaugural
JFK's Foreign Policy
- Bay of Pigs (1961)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Vietnam
JFK and the Civil Rights Movement
- Student Movement
- March on Washington (1963)
- Assassination
- Legacies: CRA (1964) and VRA (1965)

32. Lyndon B. Johnson "History Lab"

Small Group Exercise
Class discussion of LBJ worksheet

33. Remembering the 1950s and 1960s

Small group discussion of Personal Interview Projects
Eisenhower and Kennedy videos
Class discussion

34. Youth Movements

Student Activism
- Seeds of Discontent
- SDS / Port Huron Statement
- Free Speech Movement at Berkeley
Vietnam
- New Left criticism
- Tet Offensive / LBJ's demise
Chaos
- Assassinations
- Chicago Democratic Convention / Jerry Rubin

35. Nixon

Election of 1968
- Democratic Convention chaos
- Nixon and Wallace alternatives
- Political Realignment
An End to Vietnam?
- Vietnamization
- Cambodia and Kent State
- Withdrawal
- My Lai
- Paris Accords
- Casualties
Watergate
- Cambodia leak
- Huston plan
- Pentegon Papers
- Plumbers / Dirty Tricks
- CREEP
- Break In / Cover Up / Impeachment
Environmentalism

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