UNITED STATES HISTORY II

LECTURE OUTLINE SEVEN

AMERICA IN VIETNAM--TRUMAN TO LBJ

the origins of U.S. involvement in Vietnam

U.S. support for Diem

LBJ and escalation

• Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Operation Rolling Thunder
• the deployment of ground troops

VIETNAM AND THE LIMITS OF CONTAINMENT

reasons for the ineffectiveness of the policy of containment in Vietnam

AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

underlying origins (recap of FDR and Truman)

phases of the movement

• legal assault on Jim Crow (1954-Brown vs. Board of Education)
• nonviolent protest
  • bus boycott
  • sit-ins (SNCC)
  • CORE and freedom riders
  • 1963 March on Washington

FEDERAL RESPONSES TO THE DEMANDS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

JFK "waffles"

actions of LBJ

• 1964 Civil Rights Act
• 1965 Voting Rights Act

JFK, LBJ AND ISSUES OF SOCIAL WELFARE

JFK-activist view but limited accomplishments

JFK's "accomplishments" and defeats

LBJ and the Great Society

• 1965 Voting Rights Act
• 1965 Education Act
• Medicare and Medicaid
• War on Poverty

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