1302 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"

Martin Luther King, Jr., and SCLC

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

Test ban treaty

 Laos

 Berlin

Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro

 Bay of Pigs

 Berlin Wall

 Cuban Missile Crisis

Kennedy and Vietnam

Advisors

Assassination of Diem

 

A different approach

Peace Corps

 

Assassination of JFK November 22, 1963

          

 

Presidency of Lyndon Johnson

Ground breaking legislation

1964 Civil Rights Act

1965 Voting Rights Act

 

LBJ's Great Society <see handout>

 

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

 

 

 "You say you want a revolution..."

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

Summer of love - 1967 San Francisco

 

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

Presidential election

 

 

 

Chapter 29:  Living with Less, 1968-1980

 

Richard Nixon's Admin.

Domestic Issues

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

 

 

 

Nixon's Foreign Policy

Vietnam

Bombing of Cambodia

Detente

Visit to China

Chile

Overthrow of Pres. Allende

 

 

 "The Movement" continues into the 1970s

School desegregation and busing

Women's liberation

Ms. begins publication

Roe v. Wade

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

 Shirley Chisholm sought Dem. nomination

 Independent:  George Wallace

 

Political Crisis - Watergate

CREEP (Committee to Re-elect the President)

    Plumbers and Daniel Ellsberg

Break-in and cover-up

Trials

Woodward, Bernstein, and the Washington Post

Resignation

Pardon

 

 

Gerald Ford's Presidency

Pull-out of Vietnam

Ongoing energy crisis

1976 bicentennial

Assassination attempts against Ford

First Lady Betty Ford and feminism

 

Jimmy Carter's Administration1977-1981

Domestic Issues

Ongoing energy crisis

Conservation, alternative fuels,

       fuel-efficient autos

Three Mile Island meltdown

Bail out of Chrysler

 

Carter's Foreign Policy

Panama Canal
Camp David Accords

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

 
 
 
Reagan's Foreign Policy

"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

 

Middle East

Marines in Lebanon killed by suicide bomber

U.S. bombs Libya

Iran - Iraq War

 

Iran - Contra Scandal

 

 

 

Social Values Debate

Backlash against feminism

AIDS crisis

Affirmative action debate

 

The End of the 80s

Berlin Wall

Fall of Soviet Union

Stock Market dive

Increasing deficit

Gilda Radner died ('89)

Daniel Radcliffe born ('89)