How did the Cold War shape the American economy, society and politics from 1945 to 1992?

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Great Promises, Bitter Disappointments, 1960-1968

Chapter 26

The Politics of Action

  • The 1960 Political Campaign
  • Senator John F. Kennedy
  • No Catholic had ever been elected president
  • Some worried about his young age (43)
  • Televised debates with Nixon
  • JFK won a narrow margin in popular votes

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  • The New Frontier
  • Believed experts could solve problems
  • With little need of public support
  • “best and the brightest”
  • “New economics”
  • New problem of inflation

The Politics of Action

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  • Kennedy and Civil Rights
  • New wave of black activism
  • Sit-ins
  • SNCC
  • Freedom riders
  • Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

The Politics of Action

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Flexible Response

  • Confronting Castro and the Soviets
  • Alliance for Progress
  • “Bay of Pigs”
  • Berlin Wall
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Limited Test Ban Treaty

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  • Vietnam
  • Ngo Dinh Diem losing control
  • Military advisers argued for need to use American troops
  • JFK more cautious

  • Death in Dallas
  • November 22, 1963

Flexible Response

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Defining a New Presidency

  • Old and New Agendas
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Federal Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)
  • War on Poverty

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  • Implementing the Great Society
  • Civil Rights
  • “The Freedom Summer of 1964”
  • Freedom Schools
  • Civil Rights Violence
  • 1965 Voting Rights Act
  • Elementary And Secondary Education Act
  • Medical Care Act

Defining a New Presidency

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New Voices

  • Urban Riots and Black Power
  • Federal legislation ended de jure segregation
  • De facto segregation remained
  • More than a million African Americans left the South in the 1960s
  • The Watts Riots
  • Black Power Movement
  • Stokely Carmichael
  • Malcolm X

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  • Rejecting the Feminine Mystique
  • Betty Friedan’s 1963 bestseller
  • Title VII
  • National Organization for Women
  • Equal Rights Amendment

  • Rejecting Gender Roles
  • Radical feminists
  • Gay Manifesto

New Voices

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  • The Youth Movement
  • Students for a Democratic Society
  • Psychedelic Acid Rock

  • The Counterculture
  • Drugs
  • Legacy of free love
  • “Hippies”

New Voices

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