APUSH Review: Vietnam War

Origins of the Cold War

Great Website on the Origins of the Cold War (http://www.johndclare.net/cold_warA1.htm)

Bull Conner and Civil Rights: A Case Study in White Resistance to Civil Rights

It’s amazing the impact one man can have… This video is particularly well done and a good review.

Resource for reviewing the 1960s

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us38.cfm

Oswald’s assassination by Jack Ruby- newsreel footage

Note the ironies and strange coincidences.

NOW’s Statement of Purpose

The National Organization for Women was founded in 1966, seeking to advocate for the full equality of women in society. The statement below was written by Betty Friedan, the author of The Feminine Mystique.

Here is a link to the story of the founding of NOW: http://www.now.org/history/the_founding.html

Although 28 women originally talked of creating NOW in June of 1966, by October 300 people, both men and women, had joined as charter members of the organization. Robert Gray was one of the first men to join NOW. Here is a link to a document he wrote explaining why he believed that passage of the equal rights amendment would improve rights for men as well as women: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/7028

We, men and women who hereby constitute ourselves as the National Organization for Women, believe that the time has come for a new movement toward true equality for all women in America, and toward a fully equal partnership of the sexes, as part of the world-wide revolution of human rights now taking place within and beyond our national borders.

Kennedy’s Inaugural

Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy, January 20, 1961

Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom — symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning — signifying renewal, as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe — the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the State, but from the hand of God.

Excerpt – The Feminine Mystique

The Feminine Mystique: Chapter 1

“The Problem that Has No Name”

Betty Friedan

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night–she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question–”Is this all?”

The Diner Scene from Giant

Here’s the background: This is the story of a wealthy family in Texas. One of the rich man’s sons has married an Hispanic woman and has a child with her. At that time, interracial marriages were very much disapproved of in Texas, and Hispanics were heavily discriminated against in much the same way that African Americans were. The rich man, played by Rock Hudson, is originally none too happy that his son has married a Hispanic woman, being full of the prejudices that were common at the time.

The grandfather (Rock Hudson), grandmother (Elizabeth Taylor), mother and baby have stopped in a diner to eat. Because they are with wealthy white people, the diner owner has grudgingly allowed the Hispanic woman and her child to be seated. But when a Hispanic family (who earlier had been depicted as having had a son die in World War II) comes in and tries to get served, the diner owner has had enough, and attempts to throw them out. Then watch what happens….

Duck and Cover

When Kennedy openly publicized the Cuban Missile crisis, the entire world was put in a state of terror. People began talking and worrying openly about nuclear Armageddon, and drills for such an emergency happened almost daily in many cities.