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This presentation treats with the complex and dangerous international political reality Harry Truman inherited at the end of WWII - the situation in Europe and Japan, NSC 68, Marshall Plan, Berlin Crisis, etc. We highlight the differences between American foreign policy at the end of WII and WWII.

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This presentation deals with the Red Scare -- the "loss of China," Russian acquisition of the atomic bomb (with attendant spy scandals), the Korean War, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the desire to "contain" communist expansion worldwide. We examine this seeming "drum beat" of bad news that led to the fear which was taken advantage of by "tail gunner" Joe McCarthy.

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media type="custom" key="17190418" This presentation explains the advent of the Eisenhower presidency, the end of McCarthyism, the Eisenhower Doctrine, and the culture of apocalyptic H Bomb popular culture prevalent throughout the Cold War. We look at the politics, technologies, and the artistic implications in the Cold War of "Massive Retaliation" and "mutually assured destruction."

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media type="custom" key="17192728" This presentation deals the stereotype of the 1950s as the "Eisenhower" days of black and white conformity, and it examines the greater complexity of this time. We will look at James Dean, Dr. Kinsey, crime scares, Brando, and the "Beats." We will look at the 1950s as a time where contention was present, as well as conformity ("Leave it to Beaver" and "Father Knows Best").

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media type="custom" key="17192808" This presentation the generational change represented by the 1960 election of John Kennedy, the importance of Catholicism in the election, the Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, and final assassination in November 1963. We look at the most emotional and dangerous moments of the Cold War from Berlin the Cuba, and the concept of the "flexible response" of a "new generation taking up the torch" of fighting in the "long twilight struggle" we now call the "Cold War.

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This lecture covers the Tet Offensive in South Vietnam, the assassinations of RFK and MLK, urban rioting, and the refusal of LBJ to run for re-election in 1968 - as America seems to be coming apart at the seams. This lecture shows the pivotal year of 1968 and how it signals the end of the "New Deal" coalition and the re-configuring of America along "culture war" lines.

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media type="custom" key="17193544" This lecture deals with the deep divisions in the country across a generational divide between a "square" and "hip" America in the late 60s and early 70s - the free speech movement on college campuses, Woodstock, drugs, Ken Kesey and Ginsberg and "Further," San Francisco "Summer of Love" - and the conservative backlash under Spiro Agnew and the "silent majority."

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media type="custom" key="17194218" This lecture deals with the Watergate burglaries and the events leading up to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. We examine the Woodward and Bernstein newspaper articles (and "Deep Throat"), how Nixon found himself in a cover up, lied to protect himself and his party, became desperate to extricate himself from Congressional investigations, and finally resigned before he could be impeached. We finish this lecture with President Ford's initial speech about "our long national nightmare," as 1975 ended an ugly period (Vietnam, Watergate) in American history.

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media type="custom" key="17194298" This lecture explains the Nixon policy of "Vietnamization" of the Vietnam War, Laos and Cambodia, the Kent State shootings, the release of POWS, and the fall of Saigon. This lecture explores the lengths to which the "divide and conquer" strategies of Richard Nixon, combined with militant anti-war fervor of the "New Left," combined to make an America strongly divided along generational and other lines. We end the lecture with the concluding chapters of the Vietnam War which resulted in the fall of Saigon in 1975 and hurried evacuation of Americans, South Vietnamese loyalists, and dependents in April 1975.

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media type="custom" key="17194380" This video looks at a widow in front of the Vietnam Memorial talking about her late husband, Leo, with his photograph in hand. The young marine died in the conflict, and she reflects on his youth, good looks, and intelligence; she leaves his picture next to his name on the wall when through. This, in addition to the poem we read today in class "Facing It" by Yusef Komunyakaa, ends our study of the Vietnam War.

media type="custom" key="17194910" Time to perform at peak levels -- good luck on your AP exams everyone!

media type="custom" key="17194942" Learn, as in this video, to "clear the mechanism." Learn to calm the mind in moments of stress, such as the AP exams.