| A. | Great Society ideals | ||
| 1. | "War on poverty" | ||
| a. | Financial security for all Americans | ||
| b. | Aimed at those who missed the economic boom of the 1950s | ||
| 2. | A more democratic society | ||
| a. | Demand for more civil rights legislation | ||
| b. | Justifications | ||
| B. | Great Society legislation | ||
| 1. | Health-care reforms | ||
| a. | Department of Housing and Urban Development | ||
| b. | Medicare and Medicaid | ||
| 2. | Political reforms | ||
| a. | Voting Rights Act (1965) | ||
| b. | Implications | ||
| 3. | Economic reforms | ||
| a. | Office of Economic Opportunity | ||
| b. | Community action programs | ||
| A. | U.S. escalation of war | ||
| 1. | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | ||
| a. | Tantamount to congressional declaration of war | ||
| b. | Justification | ||
| 2. | Continued escalation, 1965-1967 | ||
| a. | 100,000 troops sent under General Westmoreland in 1965 | ||
| b. | Westmoreland speaks of "light at the end of the tunnel" | ||
| c. | Operation Ranchhand | ||
| B. | Vietnamese counterattack | ||
| 1. | Tet Offensive | ||
| a. | Military defeat for North Vietnam | ||
| b. | Psychological defeat for U.S. military analysts | ||
| 2. | Vietnamization of the war | ||
| a. | Nixon Doctrine | ||
| b. | Cambodia invasion | ||
| C. | Paris Peace Accords (1973) | ||
| 1. | U.S. withdrawal of all troops | ||
| a. | Cessation of hostilities between United States and North Vietnam | ||
| b. | Implications | ||
| 2. | War continues between South and North Vietnam | ||
| a. | South Vietnam¾defeat in 1975 | ||
| b. | Consequences | ||
| A. | Rise of the New Left | ||
| 1. | Composed of young and affluent | ||
| a. | Rejected both liberal and conservative agendas | ||
| b. | Reasoning | ||
| 2. | Demanded greater democracy in the United States | ||
| a. | Demands for "free speech" on college campuses | ||
| b. | Argued against the draft | ||
| B. | Changing nature of the civil rights movement | ||
| 1. | From civil rights to black power | ||
| a. | Rise of radical opponents to Martin Luther King, Jr. | ||
| b. | Stokely Carmichael and SNCC | ||
| 2. | Malcolm X and Nation of Islam | ||
| a. | Opposition to white society | ||
| b. | Black Panthers | ||
| C. | 1968 | ||
| 1. | Political impact of Tet Offensive | ||
| a. | Antiwar demonstrations | ||
| b. | Johnson's refusal to run for re-election | ||
| 2. | Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy | ||
| a. | Chicago Democratic Convention | ||
| b. | Chicago riots | ||
| 3. | Legacy for the future | ||
| a. | New tradition of protest among America's youth | ||
| b. | Long-term effects | ||
| A. | Personal background | |
| 1. | Family and education | |
| 2. | Political career | |
| 3. | Anticommunist image | |
| 4. | Ruthless, embattled personality | |
| B. | Economic problems | |
| 1. | Growing deficit, deteriorating balance of trade | |
| 2. | Combating stagflation, ninety-day freeze | |
| 3. | Floating the dollar | |
| C. | Social policy | |
| 1. | Family Assistance Plan | |
| 2. | New federalism/use of block grants | |
| D. | Detente | |
| 1. | Establishing friendlier relations with Russia | |
| 2. | Normalizing relations with People's Republic of China | |
| E. | Vietnamization | |
| 1. | Implementing the Nixon Doctrine | |
| 2. | Bombing Cambodia | |
| 3. | Antiwar protests increase | |
| 4. | Bombing of North Vietnam | |
| 5. | Signing Paris Peace Accords of 1973 | |
| F. | Re-election and resignation | |
| 1. | Dirty tricks in election of 1972 | |
| 2. | Covering up the Watergate break in | |
| 3. | Exposure and resignation | |