Description
Need a lesson that covers the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson? This ready to go PowerPoint begins with the Election of 1960 and ends with the Election of 1968. The 131 slides cover the domestic and foreign policies of JFK and LBJ including key events like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam war. Students will stay on task and engaged with 15 pages of fill in the blank notes.
This resource covers:
Election of 1960 & the power of television
Kennedy’s New Frontier
Kennedy’s commitment to landing a man on the moon (Projects Mercury & Gemini)
Important Supreme Court Cases (Mapp v. Ohio, Baker v. Carr, Gideon v. Wainwright, Abington v. Schempp)
Overview of key Civil Rights Movement events while Kennedy was President
Peace Corps
Alliance for Progress
Berlin Wall
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War under Kennedy
Assassination of Kennedy
Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty
Election of 1964
Overview of key Civil Rights Movement events while Johnson was President
Important Supreme Court Cases (Escobedo v Illinois, Miranda v Arizona)
Project Apollo
Vietnam War
Gulf of Tonkin Incident & Resolution
Support & opposition to war
Draft
Operation Rolling Thunder
Tactics of Viet Cong
U.S. weapons & tactics
Tet Offensive
My Lai Massacre
Women in Vietnam War
TV & Vietnam War
Counterculture
Activism (NOW, Black Panthers, AIM, Cesar Chavez, Brown Berets
1968 (assassinations, Democrat Convention)
Election of 1968
What’s included in the download:
*Editable PowerPoint presentation (131 slides, text is editable but the images are not)
*Google Slides presentation version (131 slides, text is editable but the images are not)
*PDF Guided Notes (15 pages, not editable)
*PDF Guided Notes key (15 pages, not editable)
*Editable Guided Notes (15 pages, created in PowerPoint without the fancy clip art and fonts)
*Fillable PDF Guided Notes (15 pages, students type into text boxes, not editable in Adobe)
*Google Slides Guided Notes (15 pages, students type into text boxes, not editable in Slides)
***This resource is included in the following larger bundles:***
* U.S. History PowerPoint and Guided Notes Bundle #2 from 1877
* U.S. History 1877 to Present Bundle
* U.S. History Mega Bundle: Exploration to Present
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