The Stormy sixties 1963-1973 Period 8

Lyndon B Johnson Civil Rights Act – 1964 Affirmative action – 1965 Great Society – 1964 War on Poverty Election – 1964 Barry Goldwater (Rep) Big Four Education Medicaid/Medicare Immigration Reform Voting Rights

Black Rights 24th Amendment - 1964 Freedom Summer – 1964 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party – 1964 Selma – 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Malcom X Black Panther Party Black Power MLK assassination - 1968

Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin - 1964 Vietcong Operation Rolling Thunder – 1965 (Six Day War – 1967) Antiwar doves Tet offensive – 1968

1968 Election Chicago Riot – 1968 Hubert Humphrey (Dem) Richard Nixon (Rep) Spiro Agnew (VP) George Wallace (American Ind. Party)

Cultural Revolution “Trust no one over thirty” Educated vs. less educated Free Speech Movement – 1964 Hippies Sexual revolution Stonewall Rebellion - 1969 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Nixon in Office Vietnamization - 1969 Nixon Doctrine “silent majority” My Lai – 1968 Kent State – 1970 26th Amendment – 1971 Pentagon Papers - 1971

World under Nixon One-China policy - 1971 Moscow & Détente ABM & SALT Gideon v. Wainwright - 1963 Miranda v. Arizona - 1966 Philadelphia Plan – 1969 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – 1970 Earth Day - 1970

Election of 1972 Southern Strategy - 1972 George McGovern (Dem) Nixon (Rep)

International Affairs Treaty of Paris – 1973 Cambodia War Powers Act – 1973 Yom Kippur War – 1973 Oil embargo - 1973