Unit+8

=﻿Unit 8=

JFK Video - Johnson Video - Map Analysis p.833 & 839 p.833 - p.839 -
 * 35th president; 1961-1963; Democrat from MA
 * They were advertisements for capitalism
 * Charasmatic, yet unfaithful to his wife - scandalous
 * Held health problems & social life within --> "open door" policy
 * He wanted people to come and report directly to him
 * Bay of Pigs - group of Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro's control; JFK supported it; it was a disaster, but because he accepted responsibility he gained more trust
 * Cuban missile Crisis - October 16, 1962 - the USSR was planning on deploying missiles from Cuba.
 * Kennedy figured a peaceful reaction, no nuclear war.
 * Domestic issues - violence in Birmingham gave JFK a new view on the issue
 * 36th president; Democrat, 1963-1969
 * wanted to dedicate his presidency to the fulfillment of Kennedy's agenda
 * overwhelmed people to get what he wanted --> "Johnson Treatment"
 * he felt inferior working with Ivy league graduates
 * to raise the underprivelged & discriminated against to new levels of equality --> Great Society
 * Boom in new programs and laws; welfare, Headstart, food stamps, Medicaid, environmental protection laws, civil rights act
 * Fought Kennedy's war on poverty
 * American intervention in Latin America
 * gew increasingly over time, starting with Cuba, Guatemala, and Venezuela[[image:http://www.qsl.net/wb0ydi/mapsea.jpg width="320" height="406" align="right"]]
 * Americans got involved wherever there were people resisting communism, dictatorship, or socialism
 * Not all of these interventions were successful: Guatemala is a very unstable country, Venezuela is under a dictatorship
 * America was not directly militarily intervening in these places however, they were giving aid to rebels in El Salvador and Costa Rica
 * shows the path the communists and the US took during the Vietnam war
 * the communist supply routes are starting from North Vietnam and making their way towards cities very close to the American bases in South Vietnam.
 * this way it was easier to attack those areas, because they were well supplied.
 * There are multiple American bases in the other countries surrounding Vietnam, like Cambodia and Thailand.
 * Was this because they wanted to invade their governments as well or so they could have a more spread out supply of soldiers and goods?
 * North Vietnam - bordered by China, Laos
 * South Vietnam - bordered by Cambodia, Laos

**Vietnam War Timeline -**
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Historical Opinions on the Vietnam War -
Other opinions -
 * Vietnam was yet again another civil war - communists versus pro-democracy. The communists were hoping to unite the country in the capital of hanoi - their stronghold. Pro-western southern Vietnam had valiant effort but it did not create a pleasant outcome for them. America got involved forcefully, and tried to back out when they realized they did not want to participate anymore.
 * The Vietnam War was a brutal and bloody war, one without much of a chance for the pro-democracy side. America was helping the war indirectly at first, helping pay for France to be directly involved in the action. Once the agreement in Geneva happened, where the next election would decide the ruler, France completely dropped out of the war. America was forced into getting directly invovled in the war. If they backed ot just because France did, it would reflect poorly. So instead, America joined the war full on and reported the events differently than what had actually happened. They did this in order to gain more support from home for joining a war unnecessarily.
 * **Sharon** - same as me, fight for future of Vietnam
 * **Devon** - unpopular among the citizens, leadership was unwilling to admit their defeat.
 * **Kerri** //-// big waste of money and time, they became a united communist country
 * The Vietnam War was a continuation of Truman's containment policy - afraid of the "domino effect"

"Why Vietnam" Video -

 * Government propaganda
 * Explaining why they are trying to contain communism
 * Reflects on the success/failures of American intervention in WWII, Cuba, Korea, Vietnam
 * "Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed." - Johnson
 * "Retreat does not bring safety"
 * Communists are increasing their aggression - calls for help from America --> committed to containment & to people maintaining their sovereignty

Chapter 31 questions -
 * 1) Liberalism, activism, Civil Rights act
 * 2) face or the movement - MLK, changing targets, racial power --> thier own opportunities to succeed, separate but equal; needed quick change
 * 3) Truman set the basis, Eisenhower - avoided conflict, Kennedy was more active, Truman & Eisenhower were passive.
 * 4) Turmoil, deep landscape, many candidates, controversy during this time (assassination), diversified candidates.


 * **The New Left** - A new political group, mostly young Americans who criticized culture and politics. || **The Counter Culture** - The new cultural patterns of American youth which aimed to go against modern society. ||
 * * brought up by radicals --> critical view of things
 * brought about by the great differences in culture and politics
 * determined to build new politics - Students for a Democratic Society, Free Speech Movement, People's Park
 * new version of The Left --> change, equality || * Experimentation - politics - peace, drugs, sex, music
 * "Hippies" - long hair, don't care --> wore long dirty, shabby clothes in order to display contempt with society
 * going against, questioning, and challenging authority - government, parents, campuses.
 * Embraced a free lifestyle - lived with nature, freed their sexual inhibitions - gave vent to instincts ||


 * **Feminism** - encouragment of women's empowerment and equality in all areas of life --> women seeking powers for their own lives; adjusting social norms
 * **Women's Liberation** - Movement for women to be free of the restraints placed on them by society; independence, free will, choice; political involvement, equal pay for equal work - $.80 per dollar; equal opportunity; freedom to get a divorce & to be able to support themselves afterwards
 * **Roe V. Wade** - Supreme Court's decision to legalize abortion in the first trimester; "right to privacy" - new theory of the constitution.

> federal government directly, gained them more followers
 * The Most Important Concepts of C33**
 * Domestic Concepts || International Concepts ||
 * * "Reaganomics" - reduction of taxes, benefits to corporations & wealthy people; dramatic cut in the federal budget & taxes - to stimulate the economy.
 * "Trickled down economics"
 * Supply-side economics - belief that the economy was in turmoil because of excessive taxation.
 * more of a laissez faire capitalism, expansion of businesses - hires more workers, etc - wealth trickles down.
 * Political landscape - the new right, conservatism.
 * Conservatist beliefs = tax Revolt, prop. 13, not attack the
 * Ford, Reagan, Carter, Bush, Clinton - elected due to lack of competition and the legacies of prior presidents
 * Welfare programs cut - government was not able to afford them.
 * Rediculously high national debt - taxes, programs, etc.
 * Recession of 1990 || * Decline in communism around the world
 * End of the Cold War
 * Strategic Defense Initiative - new arms race, did not work out, proposed by Reagan.
 * Reagan dissolved SALT II
 * China was undergoing internal conflicts- fight between the people and the government. (communist rule)
 * Invasion of Panama
 * Invasion of Kuwait by Iraq - oil reserves
 * dependence on other countries for resources.
 * fear of terrorism ||