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End of the 60s

End of the 60s. Chicano Movement and Cesar Chavez Race Riots Students for Democratic Society End of the happy hippies: Bobby Kennedy assassinated, MLK assassinated, Democratic National Convention. American Independent Party. Started by Bill and Eileen Shearer Nominated George Wallace

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End of the 60s

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  1. End of the 60s • Chicano Movement and Cesar Chavez • Race Riots • Students for Democratic Society • End of the happy hippies: Bobby Kennedy assassinated, MLK assassinated, Democratic National Convention

  2. American Independent Party • Started by Bill and Eileen Shearer • Nominated George Wallace • Call for New Conservatism

  3. Chicano Movements

  4. D.C. Riot of 68

  5. Baltimore Riots 68

  6. Richard Nixon • Checkers speech • Silent majority vs “liberal establishment”

  7. Stagflation: struggling economy, high inflaction • Why? • Growth of use of foreign cars • Government regulation of safety • Lack of raising taxes to pay for Great Society and Vietnam

  8. Vietnamization: removal of American troops from Vietnam • Nixon Doctrine: we’ll continue our commitments in Asia but in the future, Southeast Asians will fight own battles

  9. Kent State

  10. Jackson State

  11. Students gain • Free speech movement • Draft reductions • 26th amendment • Pentagon Papers

  12. Henry Kissinger • Sino Soviet Split

  13. Nixon visits China

  14. Ping Pong Diplomacy

  15. Nixon visits Moscow • Détente: relaxed tension

  16. SALT I

  17. Warren Court“old goats in black coats” • Brown v Board • Griswold v Connecticut: right to use contraceptives • Gideon v Wainwright: all people accused deserve legal counsel, whether they can afford it or not • Miranda v Arizona: rights of the accused must be told to you • Engel v Vitale: no prayer in public school • Roe v Wade: legalized abortion

  18. Continuation of Great Society • Expansion of food stamps, Medicaid, Social Security • Creation of AFDC (Aid to families with dependent children) • Philadelphia Plan: timetables to hire blacks in industry jobs • Creation of OSHA

  19. Environment • Rachel Carson and Silent Spring • EPA created • Clean Air Act of 1970 • Endangered Species Act of 1973

  20. War Powers Act

  21. Vietnam Cease Fire • Peace with honor!

  22. The Middle East • 1973, Egyptians attack Israel to regain land from 6 Days War in 68 • America backs Israel and OPEC writes oil embargo against America • Creates an energy crisis

  23. Watergate • CREEP break in • Nixon calls “executive power” and refuses to hand over tapes • Supreme court requires that he does • Agnew resigns • Nixon resigns

  24. Gerald Ford

  25. SALT II and the Helsinki Conference

  26. Feminism • Roe v Wade • Title IX • Women’s Strike for Equality • Equal Rights Amendment: proposed in 1923, ratified by 23 states • Phyllis Schlafly

  27. Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

  28. Native Americans • Civil Disobedience • Wounded Knee, SD held hostage • US v Wheeler: Indians have a unique and unlimited sovereignty

  29. Jimmy Carter

  30. Camp David Peace Accords

  31. Return of Panama Canal

  32. Second Energy Crisis

  33. Iran Hostage Situation

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