1. The 1970s!

2. Politics

3. Richard Nixon
Wins 1968 election

4. Political Parties Clear shift: Republicans=Conservative
Democrats=Liberal

5. Nixon Self-proclaimed Conservative Many Liberal programs:
Extension of Voting Rights Act
Title IX
Created EPA
Passed Endangered Species Act
Billions spent on social programs

6. Secretive
Freeze List
Enemies List

7. Vietnam Continued bombing North Vietnam Bombed Cambodia
Entanglements with Cambodia

8. Vietnam
“Vietnamization”
Gradual withdrawal of American troops

9. My Lai Massacre
1968
Am soldiers massacred about 500 Vietnamese civilians
Covered up until 1970
14 officers tried in court, only 1 convicted

10. Anti-War Protests

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12. Kent State University

13. 4 killed by National Guard

15. Détente
Add to terms list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

16. 1973
Cease-fire signed by US and North Vietnam, troops removed

17. 1973
Nixon visits China
US and China had been at odds since 1949 (Communism)

18. Nixon and Mao Zedong

20. 1972 Nixon visits Soviet Union
Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev: Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)
Limiting nuclear weapon supplies

21. Cultural Movements

22. 1960s-1970s African Americans Women Latinos American Indians
White counter-culture members

23. Women

24. Stuff you need to know Protest Miss USA Pageant
Lawsuits against businesses for hiring practices
Launching Ms. Magazine (Gloria Steinam)
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

26. Roe Vs. Wade Right to abortion with certain guidelines
Privacy clause of Constitution

27. National Organization for Women (NOW)
Fought for Equal Rights Amendment
Passed in Congress
Not enough states ratified it
Still don’t have it today

28. Phyllis Schlafly
“The feminist movement is just not compatible with happiness. They are not for equality; they want to kill everything masculine.”
“Sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for virtuous women.”
“Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.”
“Feminism is doomed failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.”
“Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.”

29. Hispanics

30. Farm Labor
Mexicans
(Bracero Program)
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta

31. American Indians

32. American Indian Movement (AIM)
Occupation of Alcatraz
Siege at Wounded Knee

33. Gay Rights

34. Stonewall Riot

35. Progress
1973: American Psychological Association removed homosexuality from list of disorders
Election of openly gay individuals: Stewart McKinney, Harvey Milk

36. Backlash
Milk assassinated in 1978

37. Counterculture

38. Woodstock- 1969
“In essence, Woodestock became a symbol of the nation’s countercultural movement. The movement featured drugs and music that was anti-war and psychedelic.”
Half a million attended

41. Conservative Backlash

42. Religious Right Movement
Pat Robertson
Jerry Falwell

43. Moral Majority
“pro-life, pro-family, pro-morality, and pro-America”

44. Economics

45. 50s and 60s
prosperity

46. 70s
Unemployment and inflation rise
Economy struggles

47. OPEC Controversy in Middle East Raise oil prices
Gas/heating costs go up in America

48. Imports Toyota and Honda from Japan “Rustbelt” declines
“Sunbelt” becomes economic center of America

49. Watergate

50. Watergate Break-in CREEP breaks into Democratic HQ in DC
CIA and FBI investigate
Nixon has tape about break-in, refuses to give it to investigators

51. House of Reps Start impeachment procedures for obstruction of justice
Nixon resigns

52. Gerald Ford Pardons Nixon Economic probs Battles w/ Congress over
tax cuts
South Vietnam lost to
Communists

53. Jimmy Carter Camp David Accords: peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
SALT II
Soviets invade Afghanistan
Iranian hostage crisis