A Time of Upheaval, 1961 – 1980 Chapter 29

2 Readings Read the chapter. “Read, or you won’t know “PEANUTS” about US History!” Smiling Jimmy

3 Introduction Dorothy Burlage Joan Baez and –sisters Age of Aquarius from HAIR

4 Coming Apart Man of the Year “My Country right or wrong!”

5 Toward the New Left Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

6 From Protest to Resistance Berkley Free Speech Movement –“Make Love Not War!”

7 Kent State and Jackson State Nixon had promised to end the war, and had ask for demonstration to STOP!

8 Legacy of Student Frenzy “No More Appeasement! »Ronald Reagan

9 The Countercultural Rebellion Counter Culture

10 Hippies and Drugs A hippie is one, “who looked like Tarzan, walked like Jane and smelled like Cheetah!” –Ronald Reagan of California

11 Musical Revolution Beatlemania Motown Woodstock Festival –Sex, drugs and Rock-and-roll The dream is over!

12 The Sexual Revolution Roe v. Wade Playboy Joy of Sex

13 Feminism and a Values Revolution

14 The 2 nd Feminist Wave National Organization for Women (NOW)

15 Women’s Liberation Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

16 Figure 30.1: Women in the Work Force, 1950–1992

17 Gay Liberation “GAY PRIDE” 1977 “YMCA” Anita Bryant

18 Environmental Activism Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River Lake Erie Sierra Club Audubon Society 3 Mile Island

19 The ME Decade

20 A Divided Nation

21 Assassinations and Turmoil Hubert Humphrey Eugene McCarthy Robert Kennedy Richard Nixon

22 Yippies Hippies, Yippies and Flippies Democratic National Convention

23 Map 29.2: The Election of 1968

24 Conservative Resurgence Richard Nixon George Wallace of Alabama

25 A Matter of Character Richard Milhous Nixon Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 Family Assistance Plan (FAP) 1969

26 A Troubled Economy OPEC Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries

27 Figure 29.2A: The Energy Crisis: Crude- Oil Imports

28 Figure 29.2B: The Energy Crisis: Gasoline Prices

29 Law and Order The Plumbers –G. Gordon Liddy –E. Howard Hunt –Pentagon Papers

30 Figure 29.1: Inflation, 1946–1993

31 The Southern Strategy Oppose voting rights End busing of students

32 Successes Abroad, Crises at Home Détente Henry Kissinger

33 Détente/Visit to China SALT I Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty “Tastes like chicken, I promise!”

34 Shuttle Diplomacy Jet hopping Kissinger

35 Election of 1972

36 The Watergate Upheaval “Deep Throat”

37 A President Disgraced United States v. Nixon Resignation Gerald R. Ford

38 A Troubled Nation and Presidency Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter

39 Panic at the Pump Gas lines “I’ve got plenty of gas, but is smells pretty bad!”

40 Figure 29.2: The Energy Crisis: Crude-Oil Imports and Gasoline Prices

41 Gerald Ford, Caretaker Pardoned Nixon WIN

42 Jimmy Carter, Outsider Stagflation Love Canal –Chemical waste site / homes and schools built Alaska Lands Act 1978

43 The Middle East and Iran Camp David Accords –Sept. 17, 1978 Iran Hostage –Nov. 4, 1979-Jan. 20, Mile Island (March 28, 1979) –Carter tours facility

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