Task: Purpose read chapter 30-3 in the Americans text (948). Watch segments of Letters Home

1. The 60’s-80’s Identify and discuss the development of a divided nation and culture during the 1960’s-70’ with an emphasis on the Vietnam War. Task: Purpose read chapter 30-3 in the Americans text (948). Watch segments of Letters Home

2. Anti-draft

3. The New Left

4. The New Left • Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), headed by Tom Hayden called for "participatory democracy" in universities. • Students at U.C. Berkeley started sit-ins in 1964 to protest prohibition of political canvassing on campus. • Amendment 26 -18 year old voting rights.

5. Protests: Be, sit, and teach-ins

6. Counterculture • Felt alienated by bureaucracy, materialism, and the Vietnam War. • Turned away from politics in favor of an alternative society (Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll).

7. Woodstock

8. The “Silent Majority”

9. The “Silent Majority” • November 3, Nixon televised his appeal to the great "silent majority," who presumably supported the war. • Aimed largely at middle class Americans who sought law and order; • Symbolized the rise of a conservative backlash against liberalism

10. Ballad of the Green Berets by Barry Sadler • Fighting soldiers from the sky • Fearless men who jump and die • Men who mean just what they say • The brave men of the Green Beret • Silver wings upon their chest • These are men, America's best • One hundred men we'll test today • But only three win the Green Beret • Trained to live, off nature's land • Trained in combat, hand to hand • Men who fight by night and day • Courage deep, from the Green Beret • Silver wings upon their chest • These are men, America's best • One hundred men we'll test today • But only three win the Green Beret • Back at home a young wife waits • Her Green Beret has met his fate • He has died for those oppressed • Leaving her this last request • Put silver wings on my son's chest • Make him one of America's best • He'll be a man they'll test one day • Have him win the Green Beret

11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edeZqCchIYg

12. Fortunate Son, CCR-1969 • Some folks are born made to wave the flag,ooh, they're red, white and blue.And when the band plays "Hail To The Chief",oh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,It ain't me, it ain't me,I ain't no senator's son,It ain't me, it ain't me,I ain't no fortunate one, no,Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,Lord, don't they help themselves? oh.But when the taxman come to the door,Lord, the house look a like a rummage sale, yes, • It ain't me, it ain't me,I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no.It ain't me, it ain't me,I ain't no fortunate one, no.Yeh, some folks inherit star spangled eyes,ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,And when you ask them, how much should we give, oh, they only answer, more, more, more, yoh,It ain't me, it ain't me,I ain't no military son, SON, NOIt ain't me, it ain't me,I ain't no fortunate one, NO NOIt ain't me, it ain't me,I ain't no fortunate one, no no no,It ain't me, it ain't me,I ain't no fortunate son, son son son

13. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f33qUqdZapw

14. Kent State

15. Ohio, CSNY-1974 • Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.We're finally on our own.This summer I hear the drummin'.Four dead in Ohio.Gotta get down to it.Soldiers are gunning us down.Should have been done long ago.What if you knew her andFound her dead on the ground?How can you run when you know?Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na. • Gotta get down to it.Soldiers are cutting us down.Should have been done long ago.What if you knew her andFound her dead on the ground?How can you run when you know?Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin'.We're finally on our own.This summer I hear the drummin'.Four dead in Ohio.

16. Women’s Movement

17. Griswold v Connecticut & Roe v Wade

18. ERA

19. Chicano Movement

20. AIM

21. Stonewall Riots 1969

22. Resistance and black power

23. Malcolm X

24. Black Panther’s

25. Black Panthers • Revolutionary social movement to organize African American men in northern and western cities to fight for liberation. • -- In effect, became a para-military organization to protect blacks from white violence (e.g. police brutality)

26. “Long Hot Summers” • Poverty, unemployment, & racial discrimination common in major inner-cities. • Empty promise of racial equality in the North ignited rage in many African American communities

27. “Long Hot Summers”

28. Rights of the Accused

29. 1968

30. 1972

31. Reagan and the "New Right" 1980 • Received vigorous support from the including evangelical Christian groups like Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority. • The “Religious Right” denounced abortion, pornography, homosexuality, the ERA, and especially, affirmative action. • ii. Championed prayer in schools and tougher penalties for criminals. • c. Reagan denounced the activist govt and failed "social engineering" of the "Great Society" in the 1960s.

32. 1980

33. Vietnam and the Domino Theory

34. Tonkin Gulf Resolution

35. Napalm

36. Napalm Attack, June 8, 1972, Nick Ut, Associated Press, winner of Pulitzer Prize. Kim Phuc is the naked child

37. Massacre at Hu: Tet Offensive

38. Press and Media