American Studies Senior Seminar: Weekly Assignment #8

The Sixties (1960-1970)

Using your text, the internet or a basic American history text of your choice, review and be prepared to talk about the following topics by the time of our meeting next week

1) "Freedom Riders"

2) James Merideth and the University of Mississippi (1962)

3) Robert McNamara

4) The Bay of Pigs (1961)

5) The Berlin Wall

6) The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

7) The Viet Cong

8) The Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)

9) The Watts Riots (1965)

10) The Tet Offensive (1968)

11) Abbie Hoffman and the Yippees

12) Woodstock

13) Eugene McCarthy