episode 6

Gulf of Tonken

Resolution

American destroyers on patrol in international waters in the Gulf of Tonkin had been attacked by North

Vietnamese torpedo boats. according to Johnson, the attacks were unprovoked so Congress passes this to give a

Blank Check for LBJ to handle Vietnam war as he sees fit

Operation Rolling

Thunder

Escalation of US in Vietnam and sustained bombing of N. Vietnam targets

Viet Cong South Vietnamese farmers by day but fought for Ho Chi Minh

Living Room War Television news showed US troops burning hunts and civilians burned with napalm

Napalm chemicals used to deforest using fire

Agent Orange chemicals used to deforest by killing vegetation like Round-Up

teach-ins began at the University of Michigan in 1965 to protest the Vietnam War as a form of protest where students and

faculty participated in discussions oriented toward action

Six Day War 1967 Israel captures West bank and Gaza but agrees to withdraw from Egyptian territory if Sinai demilitarized as a

result of attack by Egypt, Syria and Jordan against Israel

Fulbright Committee

Hearings

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 1966 televised hearings on Vietnam

My Lai Massacre US troops massacred women and children in this Vietnam village

Tet Offensive the Vietnam lunar New Year; Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army raiding forces attacked provincial capitals

throughout Vietnam, even seizing the U.S. embassy for a time. U.S. opinion began turning against the war.

Great Society set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65 as

part of his war on poverty

Immigration and abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on

reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor

Nationality Act of

1965

Medicare and

Medicaid of 1965

a health insurance program for those 65 and older and gov’t-paid health care for the poor and the disabled.

Silent Springs book by Rachel Carlson that documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides

(DDT)

March to

Montgomery

when a voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery was met with police beatings, President Johnson sent in

the troops to protect Dr. King and other civil rights demonstrators.

Voting Rights Act –

1965

ended literacy tests and provided federal registrars in areas in which blacks were kept from voting.

Black Panthers : led by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton; they believed that racism was an inherent part of the U.S. capitalist

society and were militant, self-styled revolutionaries for Black Power.

Watts Rebellion large series of riots that broke out August 11, 1965, in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Watts in Los

Angeles

1968 Democratic

Convention Riots in

Chicago

tens of thousands of protesters swarmed the streets of Chicago to rally against the Vietnam War and the political

status quo. Herbert Humphrey received the presidential nomination amid riots and bloodshed involving

protesters, police, bystanders and reporters

Malcolm X advocated self-defense—using black violence to counter white violence. He was assassinated by black opponents

in 1965.

Engel v. Vitale Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its

recitation in public schools, due to violation of the First Amendment

Griswold v.

Connecticut

Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to buy and use

contraceptives without government restriction. Established the right to privacy