| A. | Eisenhower and the "New Look" | ||
| 1. | Purpose was to keep down military expenditures | ||
| a. | Planned to rely less on conventional forces | ||
| b. | Would save lives and money | ||
| 2. | Proposed use of air power and nuclear capabilities | ||
| 3. | Advocated idea of "massive retaliation" | ||
| a. | Threat to use nuclear weapons to halt Communist advance | ||
| b. | Creation of SEATO and CENTO | ||
| B. | Kennedy and "flexible response" | ||
| 1. | Aimed at providing a variety of methods to combat growth of communism | ||
| a. | Formation of the Green Berets | ||
| b. | Economic implications | ||
| 2. | Development of counterinsurgency | ||
| a. | Use of CIA's covert capabilities and other government organizations to prevent Communist-backed insurgencies. | ||
| b. | Economic implications | ||
| 3. | Use of social scientists to assist in "nation-building" | ||
| 4. | Other organizations such as Peace Corps | ||
| A. | Emergence of post-World War II youth culture | ||
| 1. | Beginnings of rock music | ||
| a. | Generational rebellion | ||
| b. | Parental reaction | ||
| 2. | Consumption-oriented youth culture | ||
| B. | Emergence of mass culture | ||
| 1. | Commercially produced culture | ||
| a. | Beginnings of a "homogeneous society" | ||
| b. | Popular appeal | ||
| 2. | Mass culture increasingly dominated by television | ||
| a. | Networks and mass media | ||
| b. | National audiences/national tastes | ||
| C. | Critics of mass culture | ||
| 1. | Decreasing taste of Americans | ||
| a. | "Bad" art was driving "good" art from the marketplace | ||
| b. | Education of public needed | ||
| 2. | Role of network television | ||
| a. | Television programs as "products" | ||
| b. | Programs featured consumption-oriented suburban families | ||
| 3. | Social implications of television | ||
| a. | Breakdown of traditional community institutions | ||
| b. | Reshaping of household space | ||
| A. | Judicial background of civil rights movement | ||
| 1. | Supreme Court and Brown v. Board of Education | ||
| a. | Segregation declared unconstitutional | ||
| b. | Implications | ||
| 2. | White backlash to court rulings | ||
| a. | Little Rock school crisis | ||
| b. | Violent resistance | ||
| B. | Martin Luther King, Jr. and grassroots civil rights | ||
| 1. | Montgomery bus boycott and emergence of Southern Christian Leadership Conference | ||
| a. | Strategy of civil disobedience | ||
| b. | King becomes de facto leader of the movement, especially in eyes of national media | ||
| 2. | Youth organizations spearhead movement | ||
| a. | Congress of Racial Equality | ||
| b. | Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee | ||
| 3. | Attention of media | ||
| a. | Close attention of network television | ||
| b. | Southern racism brought under close scrutiny but less attention to problems in the North | ||
| A. | Background | ||
| 1. | Family and career | ||
| 2. | Personality and image | ||
| B. | Election of 1960 | ||
| 1. | Clever use of the Catholic issue | ||
| 2. | Televised debate with Nixon | ||
| 3. | New Frontier | ||
| 4. | Narrow victory | ||
| C. | Foreign policy crises | ||
| 1. | Failure of Bay of Pigs invasion | ||
| 2. | Confrontation with Khrushchev, Berlin Wall built | ||
| 3. | Cuban missile crisis | ||
| 4. | Flexible response in Vietnam | ||
| D. | Domestic policy | ||
| 1. | Tax breaks and government spending | ||
| 2. | Cautious support for civil rights | ||
| a. | Protection for freedom riders | ||
| b. | Support for integration | ||
| c. | March on Washington | ||
| 3. | Support for women's rights | ||
| E. | Assassination and evaluation | ||