Chapter 24 The

Shattered Society

I. Johnson and the Great Society

 Kennedy Assassination

November 22, 1963; Dallas Texas

President Kennedy Shot and Killed
A) Johnson
Great Society
Civil Rights
Civil Rights Act of
1964
Voting Rights Act
of 1965
24th Amendment
 A) Johnson

War on Poverty
Johnson defeated Barry Goldwater in
1964 election
Medicare
 1. Warren Court

Judicial activism
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
 1. Warren Court

Engle v. Vitale (1962)

Roth v. United States (1957)
One man, one vote decisions
 A) Johnson

Great Society was, on the whole, a failure

Utopian goals
 B) Vietnam

Johnson engaged in a full-fledged war

Escalation
Maddox
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
 B) Vietnam

Viet Cong
War would be difficult to win:
Not a clear-cut conflict
 B) Vietnam

War would be difficult to win:

Supplies went through Laos & Cambodia
Government of South Vietnam
 B) Vietnam

War would be difficult to win:

Civilians wanted to micromanage the
war, tended to let politics interfere
 B) Vietnam

War would be difficult to win:

Johnson was committed to idea of a
limited, defensive war
 B) Vietnam

War would be difficult to win:

Difficult to tell who was the enemy
Americans had superior technology
 B) Vietnam

War would be difficult to win:

Deception by American govt
 B) Vietnam

Tet Offensive
Failure for Communists
Impact on American people
Paris Peace Talks
 II. Upheaval

A) Ethnic Conflict
Opponents of civil rights movement
Those demanding civil rights
 B) Urban Riots

Watts
Detroit
Black power groups
C) Radical Youth

Dissatisfied, disillusioned
Antiwar movement
New Left
 D) Counterculture

Counterculture
Rebellion
Hippie movement
Much of it ungodly
 D) Counterculture

Radicals were a minority even among

their age group
Worse in other nations
Shocked Americans
 III. 1968

Democrats
Johnson drops out
Eugene McCarthy
Robert Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
 III. 1968

Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

Robert Kennedy assassinated
 III. 1968

Nixon front-runner for the Republicans

Law and order message
Democratic convention
 III. 1968

George Wallace
Nixon wins the election with 43% of
the vote
 IV. Nixon and the Silent
Majority

Nixon claimed to represent its interests

Busing
 IV. Nixon and the Silent
Majority

Economic problems
Inflation
New Economic Policy
 A) Diplomacy

China
Nixon visited Communist China
Public relations success
 A) Diplomacy

Russia
Henry Kissinger
Detente
SALT
 B) Vietnam

Vietnamization
Expanded into Cambodia and
Laos
Massive bombing, mining,
blockading of North Vietnam
 C) Dissent at Home

My Lai massacre
William Calley
Kent State
Pentagon Papers
 D) Vietnam

Agreement reached early in 1973

U.S. troops come home
POWs released
South Vietnam given arms to defend itself
 D) Vietnam

North Vietnam overruns South Vietnam

in 1975
Wave of isolationism in America
Reasons American lost
C) 1972
Nixons chances of re-election looked good
Democrats
George Wallace
George McGovern
Thomas Eagleton
 C) 1972

Nixon won 49 states

would be discredited within 2 years
The End!