End of the 60s

Chicano Movement and Cesar Chavez

Race Riots

Students for Democratic Society

End of the happy hippies: Bobby Kennedy assassinated, MLK assassinated, Democratic National Convention

American Independent Party

Started by Bill and Eileen Shearer

Nominated George Wallace

Call for New Conservatism

Chicano Movements

D.C. Riot of 68

Baltimore Riots 68

Richard Nixon Checkers speech

Silent majority vs “liberal establishment”

Stagflation: struggling economy, high inflaction

Why?

Growth of use of foreign cars

Government regulation of safety

Lack of raising taxes to pay for Great Society and Vietnam

Vietnamization: removal of American troops from Vietnam

Nixon Doctrine: we’ll continue our commitments in Asia but in the future, Southeast Asians will fight own battles

Kent State

Jackson State

Students gain

Free speech movement

Draft reductions

26th amendment

Pentagon Papers

Henry Kissinger

Sino Soviet Split

Nixon visits China

Ping Pong Diplomacy

Nixon visits Moscow

Détente: relaxed tension

SALT I

Warren Court“old goats in black coats”

Brown v Board

Griswold v Connecticut: right to use contraceptives

Gideon v Wainwright: all people accused deserve legal counsel, whether they can afford it or not

Miranda v Arizona: rights of the accused must be told to you

Engel v Vitale: no prayer in public school

Roe v Wade: legalized abortion

Continuation of Great Society

Expansion of food stamps, Medicaid, Social Security

Creation of AFDC (Aid to families with dependent children)

Philadelphia Plan: timetables to hire blacks in industry jobs

Creation of OSHA

Environment Rachel Carson and Silent

Spring

EPA created

Clean Air Act of 1970

Endangered Species Act of 1973

War Powers Act

Vietnam Cease Fire

Peace with honor!

The Middle East 1973,

Egyptians attack Israel to regain land from 6 Days War in 68

America backs Israel and OPEC writes oil embargo against America

Creates an energy crisis

Watergate

CREEP break in

Nixon calls “executive power” and refuses to hand over tapes

Supreme court requires that he does

Agnew resigns

Nixon resigns

Gerald Ford

SALT II and the Helsinki Conference

Feminism

Roe v Wade

Title IX

Women’s Strike for Equality

Equal Rights Amendment: proposed in 1923, ratified by 23 states

Phyllis Schlafly

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Native Americans Civil

Disobedience

Wounded Knee, SD held hostage

US v Wheeler: Indians have a unique and unlimited sovereignty

Jimmy Carter

Camp David Peace Accords

Return of Panama Canal

Second Energy Crisis

Iran Hostage Situation