APUSH resources

 Chapter 32: Rebellion and Reaction: The 1960s and 1970s The Roots of Rebellion Counterculture Youth revolts against Vietnam The New Left → Tom Hayden and Al Haber ⇒ students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Port Huron Statement ⇒ political reform, racial equality, and worker’s rights Free Speech Movement (FSM) Selective Service System (1966) modified the provisions so that undergrads were eligible for the draft Yippies (members of the new Youth International Party) The counterculture movement where long hair on men, blue jeans, tie-dye shirts, sandals, drugs, etc (Hippies) Woodstock Music and Art Fair → bunch of youths attended for music, drugs, and sex Altamont Speedway was less successful and resulted in violence 2nd wave Feminism Betty Friedan → The Feminine Mystique (1963) Women were duped to be homemakers National Organization for Women (NOW) → end discrimination in the workplace, legalized abortion, and federal funding for childcare centers Title IX - colleges can’t discri...

 Chapter 31: New Frontiers: Politics and Social Change in the 1960s This chapter is written out of order from the book Foreign Frontiers JFK CIA training 1,500 anti-Castro Cubans in Guatemala for an invasion CIA and Mafia working together Bay of Pigs invasion (17 April 1961) was a fail Khrushchev doesn’t take Kennedy seriously and threatened to limit American Access to Berlin, Berlin Wall Kept people from leaving the city Cuban Missle Crisis Soviets give missiles to Cuba U.S. missiles in Turkey, Italy, and Britain Blockaded Cuba calling it quarantine Soviets withdraw missiles if U.S. doesn’t invade Cuba again (28 October) Khrushchev agrees to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba U.S. removes their missiles Treaty with Soviets and Britain to end nuclear weapon tests → ratified in September 1961 ⇒ a step towards détente Vietnam South Vietnam not good under Premier Ngo Diem 2,000 - 16,000 troops in Vietnam (1963) Kennedy receiving divergent reports from South Vietnam claiming confidence...