1. People, Places, & Major Events
1950s to 1970s
People, Places, & Major Events

2. Cesar Chavez Labor leader & civil rights activist
1962 – United Farm Workers union

3. Ralph Nader Consumer protection advocate
Wrote “Unsafe at Any Speed”, exposing corporate fraud

4. Environmental Movement
Rachel Carson – “Silent Spring” (1962)
DDT (pesticides)
“Earth Rise” (1968)

5. “Black Power” & The Black Panthers
Stokely Carmichael (1966)
Emphasis on “Black” pride, culture, etc.
Not just southern, & not always non-violent
Black Panthers were a political organization

6. Malcolm X
Was public face of Nation of Islam (black rights org.) for many years
Rejected the mainstream Civil Rights movement & called for more radical “black pan-nationalism”
Eventually became disillusioned with this org. & was later assassinated by 3 members

7. Landmark Legislation #1, #2 Miranda v. Arizona #3 Escobedo v. Illinois
#4 Gideon v. Wainwright
Mapp v. Ohio
No warrant = can’t be used in court

8. The Anti-war Movement Hippies “Make love not war” “Flower Power”
Woodstock

9. J. Edgar Hoover “From the Roaring 20s to Watergate”
Director of FBI
Compiled “FBI Files” on everyone & used them to stay in power
Strong anti-Communist
Possibly closeted homosexual

10. JFK Administration (non-Cold War stuff!)
“ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”
Peace Corps (1960)
“New Frontier” policies
Focus on education, medical care, rural poverty, & government intervention to stop recession
Cold War stuff: Berlin Wall, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, Space Race, & continues role in Vietnam

11. LBJ Administration (non-Cold War stuff)
“Great Society” legislation
Civil Rights laws, Medicare, Medicaid, environmental protections, & “War on Poverty”
Civil Rights Acts of 1964 & 1965, Voting Rights 1965
Thurgood Marshall to Supreme Court (1st A-A)
Cold War stuff – Space Race, Vietnam (Gulf of Tonkin) etc.

12. Richard Nixon Administration
“New Federalism”
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
Clean Air & Clean Water Acts
“Détente” & Opening up China
Watergate & Resignation
Ford = pardoned Nixon

13. End of Vietnam Kent State shooting 1973 Paris Peace Accords
Nixon “Peace with Honor”

14. The Energy Crisis
US support of Israel leads to oil embargo by OPEC causing price hikes and fuel shortages
“Stagflation” – US economy stagnant & inflation high

15. Environmental Movement Grows
Nixon Administration
EPA & legislation
Three Mile Island Incident

16. SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty

17. Roe v Wade

18. Jimmy Carter Administration
Soviets invade Afghanistan (1979)
Olympics boycott (1980)
“malaise” speech (Crisis of Confidence)
Camp David Accords

19. That 70s Stuff Pentagon Papers Bicentennial Celebration 26th Amendment
Domestic Terror

20. 2nd Wave Feminism 1960s-1980s
Equal access to education, family, employment, stop domestic violence, control over bodies
Betty Freidan (The Feminine Mystique)
NOW (National Organization of Women)
Planned Parenthood

21. ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)
Title IX and women in college sports (Ed. Amend. 1972)
“Women’s Liberation”
Gloria Steinem & Ms. Magazine

22. Jimmy Carter loses in 1980