America’s HistorySixth Edition

CHAPTER 28

The Liberal Consensus:Flaming Out

1960–1969Copyright © 2008 by Bedford/St. Martin’s

Henretta • Brody • Dumenil

John F. Kennedy and thePolitics of Expectation

• The New Politics• The Kennedy Administration• The Civil Rights Movement Stirs• Kennedy, Cold Warrior• The Kennedy Assassination

Lyndon B. Johnson and the Great Society• The Momentum for Civil Rights• Enacting the Liberal Agenda

Into the Quagmire, 1963–1968• Escalation• Public Opinion on Vietnam• Student Activism

Coming Apart• The Counterculture• Beyond Civil Rights

1968: A Year of Shocks• The Politics of Vietnam• Backlash

Chapter 28 The Liberal Consensus: Flaming Out

1960–1968• Map 28.1 Decolonization and the Third World, 1943–1990 (p. 865)

• Map 28.2 The Civil Rights Struggle, 1954–1965 (p. 866)

• Map 28.3 The United States and Cuba, 1961–1962 (p. 869)

• Map 28.4 Black Voter Registration and the South, 1964 and 1975 (p. 873)

• Map 28.5 Presidential Election of 1964 (p. 873)

• Map 28.6 The Vietnam War, 1968 (p. 877)

• Map 28.7 Presidential Election of 1968 (p. 892)

• Figure 28.1 Americans in Poverty (p. 876)

• Figure 28.2 U.S. Troops in Vietnam, 1960–1973 (p. 878)

• Peace Demonstrators (p. 860)

• America’s Longest War (p. 890)

• The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (p. 890)