Description
This course focuses on America’s longest and most divisive military conflict—the Vietnam War. The War came to symbolize the tumult of the 1960s and 1970s, a period of rapid and often difficult change in American history. This course explores these transformations, including America’s long military ordeal in Southeast Asia, political radicalism and violence, the victories and defeats of the Civil Rights movement, the expansion of government under Lyndon Johnson, and the rise and fall of Richard Nixon. The cultural transformations of the period, including movies, television, music, and sports, will also be explored in detail.