Introduction

The social upheavals of the 1960s challenged traditional middle-class American values. Kennedy's charisma and style energized Americans and he had gained world prestige by his management of the Cuban missile crisis and won great popularity at home. His opponent Lyndon B. Johnson offered a liberal agenda and his legislations had an impact on many aspects of American life.

1960's were also a time when the eyes of the World were pointed into the Vietnam War. Vietnam War was the first War out of which America did not come as a winner, and the war caused a sequence of reforms and civil rights movements. The politically conscious New Left and the antiestablishment counterculture emerged.