A Time of Upheaval, 1961 – 1980

Chapter 29

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Readings

• Read the chapter.

“Read, or you won’t know “PEANUTS” about US History!” Smiling Jimmy

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Introduction

• Dorothy Burlage

• Joan Baez and– sisters

Age of Aquarius from HAIR

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Coming Apart

• Man of the Year

• “My Country right or wrong!”

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Toward the New Left

• Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

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From Protest to Resistance

• Berkley Free Speech Movement

– “Make Love

Not War!”

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Kent State and Jackson State

• Nixon had promised to end the war, and had ask for demonstration to STOP!

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Legacy of Student Frenzy

• “No More Appeasement!» Ronald Reagan

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The Countercultural Rebellion

• Counter Culture

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Hippies and Drugs

• A hippie is one, “who looked like

Tarzan, walked like Jane and

smelled like Cheetah!”

– Ronald Reagan of California

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Musical Revolution

• Beatlemania

• Motown

• Woodstock Festival– Sex, drugs and Rock-and-rollThe dream is over!

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The Sexual Revolution

• Roe v. Wade

• Playboy

• Joy of Sex

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Feminism and a Values Revolution

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The 2nd Feminist Wave

• National Organization for Women (NOW)

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Women’s Liberation

• Equal Rights Amendment

(ERA)

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Figure 30.1: Women in the Work Force,

1950–1992

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Gay Liberation

• “GAY PRIDE”

• 1977

• “YMCA”

• Anita

• Bryant

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Environmental Activism

• Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River

• Lake Erie

• Sierra Club

• Audubon Society

• 3 Mile Island

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The ME Decade

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A Divided Nation

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Assassinations and Turmoil

• Hubert Humphrey

• Eugene McCarthy

• Robert Kennedy

• Richard Nixon

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Yippies

• Hippies, Yippies and Flippies

• Democratic National Convention

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Map 29.2: The Election

of 1968

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Conservative Resurgence

• Richard Nixon

• George Wallace of Alabama

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A Matter of Character

• Richard Milhous Nixon

• Neil Armstrong Apollo 11

• Family Assistance Plan (FAP) 1969

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A Troubled Economy

• OPEC

• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

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Figure 29.2A: The Energy

Crisis: Crude-Oil Imports

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Figure 29.2B: The Energy

Crisis: Gasoline

Prices

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Law and Order

• The Plumbers– G. Gordon Liddy

– E. Howard Hunt

– Pentagon Papers

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Figure 29.1: Inflation,

1946–1993

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The Southern Strategy

• Oppose voting rights

• End busing of students

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Successes Abroad, Crises at Home

• Détente

• Henry Kissinger

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Détente/Visit to China• SALT I

• Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

“Tastes like chicken, I promise!”

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Shuttle Diplomacy

• Jet hopping Kissinger

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Election of 1972

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The Watergate Upheaval

• “Deep Throat”

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A President Disgraced

• United States v. Nixon

• Resignation

• Gerald R. Ford

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A Troubled Nation and Presidency

• Gerald Ford

• Jimmy Carter

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Panic at the Pump

• Gas lines

“I’ve got plenty of gas, but is smells pretty bad!”

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Figure 29.2: The Energy Crisis: Crude-Oil Imports

and Gasoline Prices

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Gerald Ford, Caretaker

• Pardoned Nixon

• WIN

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Jimmy Carter, Outsider

• Stagflation

• Love Canal– Chemical waste site / homes and schools built

• Alaska Lands Act 1978

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The Middle East and Iran

• Camp David Accords– Sept. 17, 1978

• Iran Hostage – Nov. 4, 1979-Jan. 20, 1981

• 3 Mile Island (March 28, 1979)

– Carter tours facility

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