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=Chapter 31: The Order of Liberalism=

** Main Ideas: **

 * 1) The promise and peril of the liberal moment of the early 1960's, when Lyndon Johnson used the legacy of John Kennedy and his own political skill to erect his Great Society and fight the war on poverty with programs for health, education, job training, and urban development.
 * 2) The early successes and later fracturing of the civil rights movement, in which the movement finally generated enough sympathy among whites to accomplish the legal end of segregation, but the persistence of racism gave rise to the black power philosophy and left many problems unsolved.
 * 3) The consequences of containment and the United States preoccupation with communism in leading the nation to use military force against leftist nationalist movements in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and, most disastrously, Vietnam.
 * 4) The cumulative shocks of 1968 on the American liberal imagination, and the subsequent rise of Richard M. Nixon.

** Text Resources: **
Robyn Muncy, //Coal-Fired Reforms: Social Citizenship, Dissident MIners, and the Great Society//, Journal of American History, Vol. 96 No. 1, June 2009. In the usual narrative of the Great Society, rank-and-file workers appear only in the final chapter, as the brakes on the movement that ended racial apartheid in the South, expanded the welfare state, and sought to give poor people power in devising solutions to poverty. To the contrary, Robyn Muncy argues, ordinary workers—in this case, Appalachian coal miners—also appeared in the first chapter of the Great Society story. Outraged by retrenchments in their private health and retirement programs, these miners and other constituents of organized labor played a crucial role in the social upheaval that created the Great Society.

** Further **** Reading **** : **
"President Johnson's Vietnam policies failed for both political and military reasons." Assess the validity of this statement using the following documents and your own historical knowledge. (AP Amsco p614)
 * DBQs:**

To what extent did the African American Civil Rights Movement acheive its goals? Use the following documents and your knowledge of the period 1950-1978. (Make sure to analyze the outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement). (Kaplan AP, p413, document analysis p428).