What were President John F. Kennedy’s efforts to pursue civil rights and other social programs at home? What were the strategies and achievements of the civil rights movement in the 1960s? What divisions emerged among its activists during the decade? What were Lyndon B. Johnson’s major war on poverty and Great Society initiatives? How did they impact American society? 4. How did the youth revolt and the early civil rights movement influence other protest movements? How did new protest movements affect social attitudes and public policy? How did the political environment of the late sixties shape Richard Nixon’s election strategy and domestic policy? How did the Watergate scandal unfold? What was its political significance?