President John F. Kennedy supported the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba as an effort to

a. remove a communist dictator from power

b. stop the flow of illegal drugs to the United States

c. support Fidel Castro’s efforts for reform

d. rescue hostages held by Cuban freedom fighters

Review Videos

■ Cartoon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0t-YBemwzs

■ Cold War in Asia Crash Course -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2IcmLkuhG0

Reading Like A Historian

■ Using the timeline, fill in the graphic organizer with your initial hypothesis in response to the question:

■ Why did many Americans oppose the Vietnam War?

Reading Like a Historian

1. Complete Graphic Organizer– Source: See bottom of reading– Context: Use timeline, match date– Main Idea: Why did Americans oppose Vietnam?

2. Class discussion:– Why did MLK and John Kerry oppose the war?– Why did anti-war sentiment grow after 1968?– Based on what you read, who opposed the war in Vietnam?

Was it mostly college kids?– Considering the context, can you speculate what those

Americans who supported the war said?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb40oy0lWZQ*Season 1 – Episode 4

Anti-War

• What are 3 key arguments that the boyfriend makes against the Vietnam war?

• What are 3 key arguments that the dad makes in support of the Vietnam war?

• To what extent can a citizen question the government and/or society without being “un-American” or unpatriotic?

Anti-War■ What do these songs

have in common?

■ How do they differ?

Waist Deep in the Big Muddy -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Befh5IyEHTkFeel Like I’m Fixin To Die -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XZ07UWhk8sImagine -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQgksBjjAf0War Pigs -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqCk57Slf3s&nohtml5=False

Anti-War Protests

■ Credibility Gap - Americans began questioning information coming from the gov’t - Tet Offensive, Pentagon Papers

■ Role of Media – civilians see what war is really like

■ The Draft - 30,000/month, often working-class minorities. Protesters burn of draft cards, flee the country

■ Ugly War Realities Leaked – My Lai, Cambodia

■ Protests turn violent – Kent State

Why would the anti-war movement be bad for America?

■ It damaged American credibility and encouraged communist revolution elsewhere

■ The U.S. shouldn’t abandon the mission or the president

■ Extremists made the movement look bad

■ It emboldened the enemy and disheartened soldiers

Mainstream vs. Counterculture

Mainstream vs. Counterculture

Mainstream vs. Counterculture

Mainstream vs. Counterculture

Mainstream vs. Counterculture

■ What were the major differences between mainstream Americans and counterculture youth in the 1960s?

■ In which ways did the counterculture have a long-lasting effect on American society?