Cold War In The 1960's Essay
THE COLD WAR in the 1960’s
* MAD Theory (Mutually Assured Destruction) * The Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) * Why the crisis happened? (Khrushchev, Fidel Castro & Cuba) * Was JFK a hawk or a dove? * Impacts of the crisis: flexible response & trend toward détente * Missles out of Cuba * Missles out of Germany * Can’t invade Cuba with force.
THE WAR IN VIETNAM
* It was America’s longest war * Some numbers: $ 150 billion ($600 billion in 2007 dollars); 2.6 million fought in Vietnam; 58,200 died; 150,000 injured * WWII and Vietnam * Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, and the two Vietnams * THE FRENCH STAGE OF THE WAR * The Battle of Dien Bien Phu * The 1954 Geneva Accourds …show more content…
* Ike and the War * THE AMERICAN STAGE * JFK and the death of Diem (1963) * LBJ and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (August 1964) * LBJ and the Escalation of the War * Credibility * Feb 1965: air strikes started * July 1965: ground troops * Why there was no military victory in Vietnam?
* The strength of the enemy * The weakness of the South Vietnamese Government * Guerilla war in Vietnam * Limited war in Vietnam * Search-and-destroy vs. clear-and-hold * The media * A Multitude of Movements * Student Rebellions, The New Left, and the counter cultural movement * SDS (1960) and its goals * 1964 UC Berkeley and student rebellion * Cultural radicals: the hippies * The Rise of Feminism * Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique * 1968: the year of upheaval * January: the Tet Offensive and the credibility gap * March: LBJ would not run again for president * April: MLK
assassinated * June: Bobby Kennedy assassinated * August: the Democratic National Convention at Chicago became a street fight * Hubert H. Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Nixon, and the 1968 election * The challenge from George Wallace * Troubles all around the world * NIXON, KISSINGER & DÉTENTE * Nixon, Henry Kissinger and geo-politics * Sino-Soviet split and the triangular diplomacy * Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I (SALT I) * Nixon’s war in Vietnam * June 1971, Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers * Paris Peace Treaty (1973) * The fall of Saigon (1975) * The Nixon Doctrine * Détente and the limit of US Power. * THE RISE OF MODERN CONSERVATISM * Barry Goldwater and conservatism * On communism * On the federal government * On the traditional American values * The 1964 election * Grassroots conservative movement * The west * The South * Nixon and the Right * The Southern Strategy and the silent majority * Law and order * Nixon and affirmative action * Nixon and abortion * THE WATERGATE SCANDAL * The Watergate Scandal (1972-1974) * Gerald Ford’s Presidency * THE PRESIDENCY OF JIMMY CARTER * Carter the “outsider” (to politics) * Carter’s troubled presidency * Carter’s leadership style * Economic crisis (high inflation and high unemployment at the same time) * The energy crisis & Carter’s response * Human rights abroad * The death of détente * The Iranian hostage crisis (1979)
* MAD Theory (Mutually Assured Destruction) * The Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) * Why the crisis happened? (Khrushchev, Fidel Castro & Cuba) * Was JFK a hawk or a dove? * Impacts of the crisis: flexible response & trend toward détente * Missles out of Cuba * Missles out of Germany * Can’t invade Cuba with force.
THE WAR IN VIETNAM
* It was America’s longest war * Some numbers: $ 150 billion ($600 billion in 2007 dollars); 2.6 million fought in Vietnam; 58,200 died; 150,000 injured * WWII and Vietnam * Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, and the two Vietnams * THE FRENCH STAGE OF THE WAR * The Battle of Dien Bien Phu * The 1954 Geneva Accourds …show more content…
* Ike and the War * THE AMERICAN STAGE * JFK and the death of Diem (1963) * LBJ and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (August 1964) * LBJ and the Escalation of the War * Credibility * Feb 1965: air strikes started * July 1965: ground troops * Why there was no military victory in Vietnam?
* The strength of the enemy * The weakness of the South Vietnamese Government * Guerilla war in Vietnam * Limited war in Vietnam * Search-and-destroy vs. clear-and-hold * The media * A Multitude of Movements * Student Rebellions, The New Left, and the counter cultural movement * SDS (1960) and its goals * 1964 UC Berkeley and student rebellion * Cultural radicals: the hippies * The Rise of Feminism * Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique * 1968: the year of upheaval * January: the Tet Offensive and the credibility gap * March: LBJ would not run again for president * April: MLK
assassinated * June: Bobby Kennedy assassinated * August: the Democratic National Convention at Chicago became a street fight * Hubert H. Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Nixon, and the 1968 election * The challenge from George Wallace * Troubles all around the world * NIXON, KISSINGER & DÉTENTE * Nixon, Henry Kissinger and geo-politics * Sino-Soviet split and the triangular diplomacy * Strategic Arms Limitation Talks I (SALT I) * Nixon’s war in Vietnam * June 1971, Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers * Paris Peace Treaty (1973) * The fall of Saigon (1975) * The Nixon Doctrine * Détente and the limit of US Power. * THE RISE OF MODERN CONSERVATISM * Barry Goldwater and conservatism * On communism * On the federal government * On the traditional American values * The 1964 election * Grassroots conservative movement * The west * The South * Nixon and the Right * The Southern Strategy and the silent majority * Law and order * Nixon and affirmative action * Nixon and abortion * THE WATERGATE SCANDAL * The Watergate Scandal (1972-1974) * Gerald Ford’s Presidency * THE PRESIDENCY OF JIMMY CARTER * Carter the “outsider” (to politics) * Carter’s troubled presidency * Carter’s leadership style * Economic crisis (high inflation and high unemployment at the same time) * The energy crisis & Carter’s response * Human rights abroad * The death of détente * The Iranian hostage crisis (1979)