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AP U.S. History Lyndon B. Johnson, Civil Rights, and The Vietnam War
In this lesson, our instructor Elizabeth Turro gives an introduction on Lyndon B. Johnson, civil rights, and the Vietnam War. She talks about Lyndon B. Johnson, the 1964 election, the expansion of civil rights movement, freedom summer, March in Selma, the voter registration in the South, Watts riots: “burn baby, burn”, legislation during LBJ years and the influential books of the 1960s. She also explains war on poverty, legislation During LBJ Years, how LBJ escalates the Vietnam War, the operation rolling thunder, U.S. Military Personnel in S. Vietnam, the anti-war movement, the television War, image of Vietnam War, the new left movement, Port Huron statement and the free speech movement. The other key points she mentioned are National Organization of Women, the counterculture, a watershed year, Tet Offensive, the democratic convention in 1968, the backlash, conservatism and how Richard Nixon is elected.
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