1. The Stormy sixties
Period 8

2. Lyndon B Johnson Civil Rights Act – 1964 Affirmative action – 1965
Great Society – 1964
War on Poverty
Election – 1964
Barry Goldwater (Rep)
Big Four
Education
Medicaid/Medicare
Immigration Reform
Voting Rights

3. Black Rights 24th Amendment - 1964 Freedom Summer – 1964
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party – 1964
Selma – 1965
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Malcom X
Black Panther Party
Black Power
MLK assassination

4. Vietnam Gulf of Tonkin - 1964 Vietcong
Operation Rolling Thunder – 1965
(Six Day War – 1967)
Antiwar doves
Tet offensive – 1968

6. 1968 Election Chicago Riot – 1968 Hubert Humphrey (Dem)
Richard Nixon (Rep)
Spiro Agnew (VP)
George Wallace (American Ind. Party)

7. Cultural Revolution “Trust no one over thirty”
Educated vs. less educated
Free Speech Movement – 1964
Hippies
Sexual revolution
Stonewall Rebellion
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

8. Nixon in Office Vietnamization - 1969 Nixon Doctrine “silent majority”
My Lai – 1968
Kent State – 1970
26th Amendment – 1971
Pentagon Papers

9. World under Nixon One-China policy - 1971 Moscow & Détente
ABM & SALT
Gideon v. Wainwright
Miranda v. Arizona
Philadelphia Plan – 1969
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) – 1970
Earth Day

10. Election of 1972 Southern Strategy - 1972 George McGovern (Dem)
Nixon (Rep)

11. International Affairs
Treaty of Paris – 1973
Cambodia
War Powers Act – 1973
Yom Kippur War – 1973
Oil embargo