Friday, March 14, 2014

3/13-14 Student Activism and Politics in Vietnam

SQ3R 1968

1. How did the war influence the 1968 election?
2. Why did LBJ decide not to run?
3. How did RFK, McCarthy and Johnson’s decisions influence the democratic party in the election?
4. What happened at the Chicago Democratic National Convention?
5. Who was the Republican candidate? What was his tactic?
6. Who was the 3rd party candidate in 1968?
7. Who did the candidate from question 6 appeal to?
8. What were the results of the election?
9. What was Middle America? What were their feelings about the politics of the ‘60s?
10. What did Nixon’s victory start as a trend?

On Friday--we will be looking at the Democratic National Convention and prep for our Student Activism Project:

1. generation gap 2. SDS 3. Port Huron Statement 4. Tom Hayden
5. New Left
6. Free Speech Movement 7. teach-in 8. conscientious objectors
9. deferment 10. Columbia
11. Walter Cronkite 12. March 31, 1968

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