The Vietnam War Era
Essential Questions
- Why did the United States become involved in Vietnam?
- What were the causes and effects of America's growing involvement in the Vietnam War?
- How did the American war effort in Vietnam lead to rising protests and social divisions back home?
- How did the Vietnam War end and what were its lasting effects?
- How did Richard Nixon change Cold War diplomacy?
- What was the counterculture, and what impact did it have on American society?
- What led to the rise of the women's movement, and what impact did it have on American society?
- How did the rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s expand rights for diverse groups of Americans?
- What forces gave rise to the environmental movement, and what impact did it have?
Learning Objectives
You will learn:
- How, why and to what extent the United States became diplomatically and militarily involved in French Indochina/Vietnam
- How the escalation of and withdrawal from the Vietnam War affected United States international relations during and since the Cold War
- How and why the 1968 presidential campaign and election significantly changed American politics and society
- How and why the Vietnam War impacted the policies and presidencies of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon
- How pressures to conform during the 1950’s and beyond contributed to the rise of an American counterculture
- How the African-American civil rights movement influenced the development of other movements for equality during the 20th and 21st Centuries
- How and why student and youth led movements formed to protest United States involvement in Vietnam and to what extent the movements impacted the nation’s politics and war efforts
- How women’s rights activists adopted a new feminism to challenge the cult of domesticity of the 1950s
- To what extent the American woman has successfully gained expanded roles in American society and gender equality
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Digital History Textbook
Vietnam War
This chapter discusses how American became involved in southeast Asia; the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam war; reactions to the war on the homefront; President Nixon’s strategies for ending the war; and cultural reactions to the war.
The Vietnam War
The Meaning of the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh
Before the American War
Into the Quagmire
John Kennedy and Vietnam
LBJ
Why Vietnam?
The Tet Offensive
Nixon and Vietnam
The War at Home
The Final Collapse
The Vietnam War and American Culture
The War's Costs
The War's Consequences
Chronology
America in Ferment: The Tumultuous 1960s
This chapter examines the Civil Rights struggle against segregation and racial inequality; the feminist fight for equal educational and employment opportunity; the Mexican American battle against discrimination in voting, education, and employment; the Native American campaign for tribal sovereignty and land rights; the gay and lesbian drive to end discrimination based on sexual preference; and the environmentalist campaign to reduce pollution and promote conservation.
Thurgood Marshall
Simple Justice
The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Eisenhower and Civil Rights
Little Rock
The State of Black America in 1960
Freedom Now
To the Heart of Dixie
Bombingham
Kennedy Finally Acts
The March on Washington
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights
Black Nationalism and Black Power
The Civil Rights Movement Moves North
The Great Society and the Drive for Black Equality
White Backlash
The Struggle Continues
The Youth Revolt
The New Left
The Making and Unmaking of a Counterculture
Women's Liberation
Sources of Discontent
Feminism Reborn
Radical Feminism
The Growth of Feminist Ideology
The Supreme Court and Sex Discrimination
The Equal Rights Amendment
Impact of the Women's Liberation Movement
Viva La Raza!
The Native American Power Movement
Gay and Lesbian Liberation
The Earth First
Ralph Nader and the Consumer Movement
This chapter discusses how American became involved in southeast Asia; the escalation of American involvement in the Vietnam war; reactions to the war on the homefront; President Nixon’s strategies for ending the war; and cultural reactions to the war.
The Vietnam War
The Meaning of the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Minh
Before the American War
Into the Quagmire
John Kennedy and Vietnam
LBJ
Why Vietnam?
The Tet Offensive
Nixon and Vietnam
The War at Home
The Final Collapse
The Vietnam War and American Culture
The War's Costs
The War's Consequences
Chronology
America in Ferment: The Tumultuous 1960s
This chapter examines the Civil Rights struggle against segregation and racial inequality; the feminist fight for equal educational and employment opportunity; the Mexican American battle against discrimination in voting, education, and employment; the Native American campaign for tribal sovereignty and land rights; the gay and lesbian drive to end discrimination based on sexual preference; and the environmentalist campaign to reduce pollution and promote conservation.
Thurgood Marshall
Simple Justice
The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Eisenhower and Civil Rights
Little Rock
The State of Black America in 1960
Freedom Now
To the Heart of Dixie
Bombingham
Kennedy Finally Acts
The March on Washington
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights
Black Nationalism and Black Power
The Civil Rights Movement Moves North
The Great Society and the Drive for Black Equality
White Backlash
The Struggle Continues
The Youth Revolt
The New Left
The Making and Unmaking of a Counterculture
Women's Liberation
Sources of Discontent
Feminism Reborn
Radical Feminism
The Growth of Feminist Ideology
The Supreme Court and Sex Discrimination
The Equal Rights Amendment
Impact of the Women's Liberation Movement
Viva La Raza!
The Native American Power Movement
Gay and Lesbian Liberation
The Earth First
Ralph Nader and the Consumer Movement