Chapter 29A Time of Upheaval, 1968-

1974

Towards a New Left The New Left

The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

The Port Huron Statement

“Hell no, we won’t go”!

The Counterculture The Counterculture

Hippies

Music of the 1960s

The Sexual Revolution

The Pill

Roe V Wade (1972)

The Gay Liberation

The Vietnam War The Tet Offensive

(Jan. 1968)

The “psychological” victory

The Doves

Eugene McCarthy

Robert Kennedy

Assassinations and Turmoil

The assassination of Martin Luther King JR

April 4, 1968

Turmoil Vice President Hubert

Humphrey

The assassination of Robert Kennedy

The 1968 Election

Richard Nixon

Henry Kissinger

Realpolitik

The Vietnam War Vietnamization

The Nixon Doctrine

My Lai

William Calley JR

Nixon escalates the war

The Vietnam War Kent State

(May 1970)

The Pentagon Papers (1971)

The Credibility Gap

Détente Détente with China

Reasons for Détente

Ping Pong Diplomacy

Nixon goes to China (1972)

Leonid Brezhnev

SALT I (May 1972)

The Vietnam War

The Paris Peace Accords (Jan. 1973)

The War Powers Act (1973)

The Vietnam Syndrome

The Nixon Years Nixon and the Environment

The Environmental Protection Agency

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Earth Day (April 1970)

Environmental Laws

Nixon

Affirmative Action

Title IX (9)

Nixon’s Southern Strategy

Allan Bakke

Nixon and the Gas Crisis The Yom Kippur War

OPEC

Gas Prices

Kissinger’s Shuttle Diplomacy

Inflation problems

Watergate The Plumbers

CREEP

The 1972 Election

George McGovern

Woodward and Bernstein

Watergate Nixon’s Taping System

Elliot Richardson

Archibald Cox

The Saturday Night Massacre

Impeachment proceedings

Watergate Furthering the credibility gap

Spiro Agnew

Gerald Ford

The role of the Supreme Court in the Watergate Scandal

Watergate

Nixon resigns (Aug. 9, 1974)

Ford becomes President