Cold War In The 1960's Essay
THE COLD WAR in the 1960’s
* MAD Theory (Mutually Assured Destruction) * The Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) * Why the crisis happened? (Khrushchev, Fidel Castro & Cuba) * Was JFK a hawk or a dove? * Impacts of the crisis: flexible response & trend toward détente * Missles out of Cuba * Missles out of Germany * Can’t invade Cuba with force.
THE WAR IN VIETNAM
* It was America’s longest war * Some numbers: $ 150 billion ($600 billion in 2007 dollars); 2.6 million fought in Vietnam; 58,200 died; 150,000 injured * WWII and Vietnam * Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, and the two Vietnams * THE FRENCH STAGE OF THE WAR * The Battle of Dien Bien Phu * The 1954 Geneva Accourds …show more content…
* The strength of the enemy * The weakness of the South Vietnamese Government * Guerilla war in Vietnam * Limited war in Vietnam * Search-and-destroy vs. clear-and-hold * The media * A Multitude of Movements * Student Rebellions, The New Left, and the counter cultural movement * SDS (1960) and its goals * 1964 UC Berkeley and student rebellion * Cultural radicals: the hippies * The Rise of Feminism * Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique * 1968: the year of upheaval * January: the Tet Offensive and the credibility gap * March: LBJ would not run again for president * April: MLK
* MAD Theory (Mutually Assured Destruction) * The Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) * Why the crisis happened? (Khrushchev, Fidel Castro & Cuba) * Was JFK a hawk or a dove? * Impacts of the crisis: flexible response & trend toward détente * Missles out of Cuba * Missles out of Germany * Can’t invade Cuba with force.
THE WAR IN VIETNAM
* It was America’s longest war * Some numbers: $ 150 billion ($600 billion in 2007 dollars); 2.6 million fought in Vietnam; 58,200 died; 150,000 injured * WWII and Vietnam * Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, and the two Vietnams * THE FRENCH STAGE OF THE WAR * The Battle of Dien Bien Phu * The 1954 Geneva Accourds …show more content…
* The strength of the enemy * The weakness of the South Vietnamese Government * Guerilla war in Vietnam * Limited war in Vietnam * Search-and-destroy vs. clear-and-hold * The media * A Multitude of Movements * Student Rebellions, The New Left, and the counter cultural movement * SDS (1960) and its goals * 1964 UC Berkeley and student rebellion * Cultural radicals: the hippies * The Rise of Feminism * Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique * 1968: the year of upheaval * January: the Tet Offensive and the credibility gap * March: LBJ would not run again for president * April: MLK