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NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 28 “The Rise and Fall of the New Liberalism: 1960 – 1968” COMMON THREADS How did the prosperity of the 1950s shape the politics of the 1960s? What was the impact of the civil rights movement on other groups? How did the new liberalism, the new conservatism, and the New Left define democracy? How did anti-Communism shape U.S. foreign policy? How would desires for rights and worries about limited resources continue to shape American society beyond the 1960s? OUTLINE New Ideas, New Leaders Grassroots Activism for Civil Rights The New Liberalism The New Conservatism The New Left The Presidential Election of 1960 The New Frontier Style and Substance Civil Rights Flexible Response and the Third World Two Confrontations with the Soviets Kennedy and Vietnam The Great Society Lyndon Johnson’s Mandate “Success Without Squalor” Preserving Personal Freedom The Death of Jim Crow American Landscape: “The Long Cool Summer” of Greenville, Mississippi The American War in Vietnam Johnson’s Decision for War Fighting a Limited War The War at Home The Great Society Comes Apart The Emergence of Black Power The Youth Rebellion The Rebirth of the Women’s Movement Conservative Backlash 1968: A Tumultuous Year America and the World: International Student Protest, 1968 Conclusion WHO? WHAT? Stokely Carmichael Flexible response Betty Friedan Limited war Fannie Lou Hamer Participatory Lyndon Johnson democracy John F. Kennedy Sit-ins Martin Luther King Jr. War on Poverty Richard Nixon Mario Savio George Wallace REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. How did the new liberalism differ from the liberalism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal? How did the new conservatism differ from the old? 2. Compare and contrast the New Frontier and the Great Society. Did their goals differ? 3. Why was the civil rights movement able to attain its major goals by the mid-1960s? 4. How did the United States fight the Cold War in the 1960s? Was America winning by the end of the decade? 5. Compare liberal and radical feminism. Were these movements incompatible with each other? 6. Compare the Black Power movement, the New Left, and the counterculture. Did any of these want radical change for the United States? NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS