TPAH Unit 11 - Vietnam & A Changing America

People born after WWII. Experienced economic prosperity throughout their lifetime. Would become the young adults involved in Vietnam & Civil Rights Era.

• Baby Boomers

• Baby Zoomers

• Millennials

• Gen X

President Lyndon B. Johnson's program in the 1960's to provide greater social services for the poor and elderly

• Silent Majority

• War on Poverty

• War on Drugs

• Great Society

Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1964) which made it illegal for states to impose a poll tax on voters.

• 19th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

• 24th Amendment

• The Voting Rights Act

Case that ruled public school students may protest against America's war in Vietnam when such display does not disrupt classes

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Roe v. Wade

• Marbury v. Madison

• Gibbons v. Ogden

Uprisings & riots that took place in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Watts, Los Angeles against police brutality.

• LA Riots

• Stonewall Riots

• Watts Riots

• Police Brutality Riots

Revealed that US government had planned to intervene in Vietnam anyway, despite Johnson's claim that they would not. Revealed that US military action was taking place in secret. Drastically diminished Americans' trust in government.

• Watergate

• Deflategate

• The Confidential Informant Act

• Pentagon Papers

A phrase used to describe people, whatever their economic status, who uphold traditional values, especially against the counterculture of the 1960s

• Moral Majority

• Silent Majoirty

• Southern Strategy

In the late 70s and 80s, this campaign fought the new levels of poverty, crime, & drug addiction in the inner cities. Disproportionately targeted Black and Latinx communities within America.

• War on Poverty

• War on Drugs

• Great Society

• War for Sobriety

An FBI program begun in 1956 and continued until 1971 that sought to expose, disrupt, and discredit groups considered to be radical political organizations: Targeted antiwar groups during the Vietnam War.

• COINTELPRO

• The Red Scare

• McCarthyism

a type of political organization that relies on high numbers of community-based membership and participation to promote change.

• Bottom Up Organization

• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

• grassroots organization/activism

• Top Down Organization