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CHAPTER 28

Liberalism, Civil Rights, and War in Vietnam,

1960-1975

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The Election of 1960

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The Kennedy Presidency, 1960–1963

• A New Beginning• Kennedy’s Domestic Record• Cold War Activism • To the Brink of Nuclear War• The Thousand-Day Presidency

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The Continuing Struggle for Black Equality, 1961–1968

• The African-American Revolution • The March on Washington, 1963 • Civil Rights at High Tide• Fire in the Streets • “Black Power”• The Struggle Goes On

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Voter Registration of African-Americans in the South, 1960–1968

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The Expanding Movement for Equality

• Native American Activism • Hispanic-Americans Organize• Asian American Activism

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Liberalism Ascendant, 1963–1968

• Johnson Takes Over • The 1964 Election • The Great Society• The Liberalism of the Warren Court

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The Vietnam Crusade, 1961-1967

• Origins and Causes• Kennedy and Vietnam• Lyndon Johnson’s Endless War• The Tet Offensive and a Shaken President• Nixon’s War• America’s Longest War Ends

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The Tet Offensive,January–February 1968

• Assassinations and Turmoil

• Conservative Resurgence

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The Vietnam War, to 1968