End of the 60s
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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