Chapter 35: Rebellion And Reaction In The 1960s And 1970s
Chapter Outline
- Roots of rebellion
- Youth revolt
- Baby-boomers as young adults
- Sit-ins and end of apathy
- New Left
- Students for a Democratic Society
- Port Huron Statement
- Participatory democracy
- Antiwar protests
- 1968
- Columbia University uprising
- Democratic convention in Chicago
- Fracturing of SDS
- End of New Left
- Counterculture
- Descendants of the Beats
- Contrasted with New Left
- Drugs, communes, hedonism
- Rock music
- Woodstock
- Altamont
- Feminism
- Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique
- National Organization for Women
- Federal actions
- Affirmative action
- Roe v. Wade
- Equal Rights Amendment’s failure
- Divisions and reactions
- Minorities
- Hispanic rights
- Effects of World War II
- Activism in 1950s and 1960s
- Use of term Chicano
- United Farm Workers
- César Chavez
- Migrant workers
- Grape strike and boycott
- Growth of population
- American Indians
- Emergence of Indian rights
- American Indian Movement
- Legal actions
- Gay rights
- Stonewall Inn raid
- Gay Liberation Front
- Gay rights movement
- AIDS
- Nixon and Vietnam
- Policy of gradual withdrawal
- Movement on three fronts
- Insistence on Communist withdrawal from South Vietnam
- Efforts to undercut unrest in the United States
- Vietnamization
- Lottery and volunteer army
- Expanded air war
- Occasions for public outcry against the war
- My Lai massacre
- Cambodian “incursion”
- Campus riots
- Public reaction
- Pentagon Papers
- Method of disclosure
- Revelations of the papers
- Supreme Court ruling
- American withdrawal
- Kissinger’s efforts before the 1972 election
- Christmas bombings
- Final acceptance of peace
- U.S. withdrawal in March 1973
- Ultimate victory of the North: March–April 1975
- Assessment of the war
- Communist control
- Failure to transfer democracy
- Erosion of respect for the military
- Drastic division of the American people
- Impact on future foreign policy
- Nixon and Middle America
- Cabinet and staff
- Domestic affairs
- Continuance of civil rights progress
- Southern strategy
- Voting Rights Act continued over a veto
- Courts uphold integration
- In Mississippi
- School busing
- Limitation on busing
- The Bakke decision
- Democratic legislation
- Twenty-first Amendment
- Occupational Safety and Health Act
- Revenue sharing
- Other domestic legislation
- The economic malaise
- The causes of “stagflation”
- Nixon’s efforts to improve the economy
- Reducing the federal deficit
- Reducing the money supply
- Wage and price controls
- Nixon’s triumphs
- Nixon Doctrine
- Rapprochement with China
- Détente with the Soviet Union
- The visit to Moscow
- The SALT agreement
- Trade agreements
- Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East
- Election of 1972
- Removal of the Wallace threat
- The McGovern candidacy
- Results of the election
- Watergate
- Burglary
- Unraveling the cover-up
- Judge Sirica’s role
- Nixon’s personal role
- April resignations
- Discovery of the tapes
- The Court decides against the president
- Articles of impeachment
- The resignation
- The aftermath of Watergate
- Ford’s selection
- The Nixon pardon
- Resiliency of American institutions
- War Powers Act
- Campaign financing legislation
- Freedom of Information Act
- An unelected president
- Ford administration
- Drift at the end of Nixon administration
- Battle with the economy
- Diplomatic accomplishments
- Election of 1976
- Ford’s nomination
- Rise of Jimmy Carter
- Carter’s victory
- Carter presidency
- Early domestic moves
- Appointments
- Amnesty for draft dodgers
- Environmental legislation
- Energy crisis
- Foreign policy initiatives
- Human rights
- Camp David Agreement
- Stagflation
- Iranian crisis
- Background
- Efforts to aid the hostages
- End of 444-day crisis
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