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LECTURE OUTLINE
UNIT
FOUR
Chapter 28: The Rise and Fall of the New Liberalism, 1960-1968
1960
presidential election
Dem: Kennedy & Johnson
Rep: Nixon & Lodge
The
Kennedy mystique
Civil
Rights achievements in the early 1960s
"The
Movement"
Roy Wilkins & NAACP
Ella Baker & SNCC
Freedom rides, sit-ins, marches
Integration of Universities of Mississippi and Alabama
Murder of
Medgar Evers, June '63, Jxn MS
Bombing of
Birmingham, AL church
March on
Washington - August '63
Kennedy's
Foreign Policy
Kennedy and Khrushchev
Laos
Berlin
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile
Crisis
Advisors
Assassination of Diem
A
different approach
Assassination
of JFK
Presidency
of Lyndon Johnson
Ground breaking legislation
1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Voting Rights Act
The Warren
Court
1962: Engel v. Vitale, school prayer
1963: Gideon v. Wainwright, counsel for indigent
1963: Baker v. Carr, equitable legislative districts
1965: Griswold v. Connecticut, privacy rights (birth
control)
1966: Miranda v. Arizona, rights advisory
1967: Loving v. Virginia, struck down interracial marriage
ban
Lyndon
Johnson's foreign policy
Expanding U.S. involvement in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Rolling Thunder
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam
Black Panthers and Black Power Movement
American Indian Movement
Jose Angel Gutierrez and La Raza Unida
Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the United Farm Workers
Port Huron Statement and Students for a Democratic Society
Youth counterculture:
don't trust anyone over 30
Second
wave feminism
Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique
National Organization for Women
1968
Assassinations
MLK
RFK
Anti-war
demonstrations
U. S. and
the world
Chapter 29: Living with Less, 1968-1980
Richard
Nixon's Admin.
1970s energy crisis
1973 OPEC embargo
Nixon's conservation measures
Demographic
changes in the 70s
Population shift from 'rust belt' to 'sun belt'
Economic hard times and the family
Vietnam
Bombing of Cambodia
Detente
Chile
Overthrow of Pres. Allende
"The Movement" continues into the 1970s
School desegregation and busing
Women's liberation
Ms. begins publication
Equal Rights Amendment
American
Indian Movement
1975 Indian Self-Determination Act
Show down at Wounded Knee, Pine Ridge Reservation
1972
Election
Rep: Richard Nixon
Dem: George McGovern
Independent:
George Wallace
Political
Crisis - Watergate
CREEP (Committee to Re-elect the President)
Break-in and cover-up
Trials
Woodward, Bernstein, and the Washington Post
Resignation
Pardon
Pull-out of Vietnam
Ongoing energy crisis
1976 bicentennial
Assassination attempts against Ford
First Lady Betty Ford and feminism
Jimmy
Carter's Administration1977-1981
Ongoing energy crisis
Conservation, alternative fuels,
fuel-efficient autos
Three Mile Island meltdown
Bail out of Chrysler
Carter's
Foreign Policy
Anwar Sadat, Egypt
Menachim Begin, Israel
Iranian revolution
American hostages in Tehran
Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan
U.S. boycott of Moscow summer Olympics
SALT II withdrawn
Grain sales to USSR halted
Chapter
30: The Triumph of Conservatism,
1980-1991
Creating a
Conservative Majority
Renewed
interest in finance and business
Rise of
religious right
The Appeal
and Election of Ronald Reagan, 1980
The New
Federalism
Reagan's
plan:
Transfer federal programs/
tax
revenue to states
Cut welfare programs
End
result:
few programs cut, but several reduced
Job training funding cut
Financial aid for college students cut
Social Security changes
Reaganomics
Supply-side economics
Cut taxes for business and wealthy to increase production
of goods and services
1981 Kemp-Roth Bill
Republicans and Democrats join to cut taxes for the wealthy
Deregulation
Cuts to OSHA and EPA
Telephone, airline, banking
PATCO strike
1984
election
Reagan easily re-elected
Democratic ticket:
Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro
"The Evil
Empire" (USSR)
Strategic
Defense Initiative aka "Star Wars"
Fighting
Communism in Latin America
Backing right-wing governments in Nicaragua, El Salvador
Invasion of Grenada
Marines in Lebanon killed by suicide bomber
U.S. bombs Libya
Iran - Iraq War
Iran -
Contra Scandal
Backlash against feminism
AIDS crisis
The End of
the 80s
Berlin Wall
Fall of Soviet Union
Stock Market dive
Increasing deficit
Gilda Radner died ('89)
Daniel Radcliffe born ('89)