The Long Sixties
by Dr. H - March 26th, 2011
I’m calling this deep unit “The Long Sixties” because it covers more than just the decade from 1960-1970. We’ll be talking about social and political movements, foreign policy and overseas conflicts that don’t fit neatly into those years – starting in the 1950s and stretching into the 1970s. We are still feeling the domestic and international effects from the turbulence of this era.
The exam on this unit will be on Friday, April 8th, and will cover Chapters 27-30.
Topics in this unit include:
Cold War foreign policy
Cuban Missile Crisis and Foreign Affairs in the Kennedy Years
The Vietnam War
The African-American Civil Rights Movement
Other Civil Rights Movements: the Women’s movement/ Feminism, “Red Power,” and “Brown Power”
Decisions of the Warren Supreme Court
The Anti-War Movement, the Counterculture, and the New Left
The New Frontier (Kennedy’s domestic agenda)
The Great Society (Johnson’s domestic agenda)
The Liberal Consensus
Watergate
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