1. Knights Charge 5/8 What is counterculture?
Name 3 movements during the 1960’s that fought for the rights for others?
What was Roe vs. Wade?
How did the government try to protect the environment?

2. Knights Charge 5/11
How did the music we listened to Friday capture the spirit of the Counterculture of the 1960’s?

3. The Nixon Presidency

4. Violence Rocks the Election 1968
April 4, Martin Luther King is assassinated
June 5, Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated
Outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, violence erupts between anti-war protestors and police

10. Nixon’s Foreign Policy
Realpolitik- political goals defined by national interests and not ideologies
Changed America’s view of the Cold War
Henry Kissinger

11. Nixon Visits China Nixon opens trade with China
Normalize diplomatic relations
High point of Nixon’s Presidency

13. Détente with Soviet Union
Détente- attempt to ease tension between two people
US and Russia sign SALT I- limits production of certain types of weapons

14. Nixon’s Domestic Policy
New Federalism- Nixon wanted to speak for the “silent majority”
Speak for the “non-shouters, the non-demonstrators”
Decrease size of the government

15. Economic Struggles Nixon’s Presidency experience stagflation
Stagflation- combination of a struggling economy and rising prices

16. OPEC
Organization of Arab states that control and sell oil to other countries
Gas embargo led to gas shortage in 1973

17. Affirmative Action
Policy that gives special consideration to women an minorities in education and employment

18. University of California vs. Bakke
Ruled that race could be a factor in the admissions process
Racial quotas should not be allowed

19. Watergate
Attempted burglary of Democratic Headquarters at Watergate Complex
Nixon denied involvement
Over time, evidence revealed Nixon was involved
Nixon tried to cover it up

21. Watergate Fallout Nixon resigned
First president to resign from office
Nixon appoints Gerald Ford as President
Ford immediately pardons Nixon

22. The Nixon Presidency