From Hippies to Mr. Taylor

 The Permissive Society ◦ Sexual revolution of the 60’s ◦ Decriminalization of homosexuality ◦ Increasing divorce ◦ Experimentation with drugs like marijuana

 Youth Protest ◦ Youth protests increase to throw off traditional ways and protest war ◦ French, German, American protesters all get involved ◦ Pg. 913 ◦ When they get violent at Kent State 4 killed

 Betty Friedan publishes the Feminine Mystique and analyzes the problems faced by middle class women  Sought pure equality between men and women

 Leonid Brezhnev ◦ Encourages heavy industry... Which declines : ( ◦ Government bureaucracy becomes more complicated ◦ Brezhnev Doctrine claims that soviets have right to protect socialist when they are threatened ◦ Poor harvests

 Groups like Poland and Hungary slowly moved away from Soviet power  Czechoslovakia began to shift to capitalist reforms under Alexander Dubcek ◦ Prague Spring was an era when they began to prosper but were put down by the Red Army in ’68 ◦ Gustav Husak abolishes all reforms and reverts back to Soviet control

 Walter Ulbricht leads East Germany to prosperity after Berlin Wall is finished in ‘61 ◦ Kept West Berliners in the Soviet controlled East Berlin ◦ West Germany makes moves towards better relations in 1971 with Willy Brandt ◦ After Ulbricht, Erich Honecker increases the Stasi

 Prices in oil soar causing economic downturn worldwide  OPEC controlled the oil prices in the middle east ◦ Prices go up after the Arab-Israeli conflict escalates

 Conservatives take over after failed Irish conflict in 1979 with Thatcher ◦ Limit Social Welfare ◦ Cuts education budget ◦ Military build up to combat Communism ◦ Victory of Falklands War ◦ Weakening of the Labor Party

 Richard Nixon- Uses the “southern strategy” (slowdown of racial segregation) to appeal to whites ◦ paranoid so bugged the democratic national headquarters and caught to resigns in 74  Jimmy Carter- wins in ‘76 but inherits a serious economic problem ◦ Stagflation (high unemployment and inflation) causes problems ◦ Many of these problems stemmed from the oil spike

 Ronald Reagan ◦ Republican wins in 1981 ◦ Reduces welfare spending ◦ Peacetime military buildup ◦ Supply Side Economics  Good for the short run but triples national debt from 81-87

 Ho Chi Minh receives Soviet aid and the south receives American assistance  Kennedy gives assistance to a pseudo government led by Ngo Dinh Diem ◦ Diem is corrupt and South Vietnamese become frustrated with his rule ◦ America struggles with growing members of the Vietcong (southern communists) and their guerilla tactics ◦ Nov a military coup overthrew Diem

 Vietcong support growing with North so LBJ doubles efforts in 1965 ◦ Tonkin Gulf Resolution had been end of ’64 ◦ Domino Theory ◦ France under De Gaulle becomes very critical of American involvement ◦ Firebombing in Vietnam (rolling thunder) ◦ In 1973 finally Richard Nixon ends the Vietnam War  Feared spread never occurs

 More active than the Soviets in the later years of the Cold War  Great Leap Forward—failed  Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966 ◦ Red Guards try to eliminate the “four olds”(ideas, culture, customs, and habits) ◦ Lasts 10 years until they realize it too failed

 Period of the Cold War in the 1970’s ◦ Antiballistic Missile Treaty in ‘72 helps reduce fear of Nuke attack ◦ Helsinki Agreement in ‘75 claims that geographic borders will be reorganized along the borders established at the end of WWII (Soviets get sphere of influence in East Europe)  Protect human rights  Seems like the end until Soviets invade Afghanistan in ‘79