英文电影赏析——America In 1960s.ppt

America In 1960s — culture and flims The Vietnam War Vietnam War Vietnam War Platoon Vietnam War Apocalypse Now Apocalypse Now Thelma and Louise The Accused Snow White boycott MALCOLM X GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER BonnieClyde easy rider midnight cowboy The Graduate Thank you * National Liberation Front and Vietcong begin attacking South Vietnam. JohnF. Kennedy elected president. Civil rights protestors conduct sit-ins in the South Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed. Summit meeting between the United States and the Soviet Union. Cuban missile crisis. Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring. 1961-1963 U.S. troops go to South Vietnam as military advisors, then combatants. 1963 Diem assassinated Congress passed Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Civil rights protest in Birmingham Alabama. Martin Luther King gives I Have a Dreamspeech in Washington. Kennedy assassinated;Lyndon B. Johnson becomes president. 1964 Twenty-Fourth Amendment ratified. Civil Rights Act of 1964. War on Poverty. Johnson reelected president. 1965 Johnson institutes military draft. Operation Rolling Thunder First national antiwar demonstration in Washington D.C. Great Society Medicare and Medicaid founded Selma,Alabama,voting registration drive Malcolm X assassinated. Department of Housing and Urban Development established. Corpoaration for Public Broadcasting created Voting Rights Act. 1966 Congressional hearings on Vietnam. Black Panther Party founded. 1968 Tet Offensive Robert F Kennedy assassinated. Richard Nixon elected president. Poor Peoples Campaign Martin Luther King ,Jr. assassinated 1969 U.S. troop withdrawals begin U.S. bombing of Cambodia. Warren Burger appointed to Supreme Court. The Viet