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| CHAPTER 35 | REBELLION AND REACTION IN THE 1960S AND 1970S | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1960 |
FDA approved birth-control pill |
| 1962 |
Port Huron Statement |
| 1962 |
United Farm Workers started |
| 1963 |
Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique |
| 1966 |
NOW founded |
| 1968 |
My Lai massacre |
| 1969 |
Stonewall Inn riot |
| 1969 |
Woodstock music festival |
| April 1970 |
Cambodian “incursion” |
| 1971 |
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education |
| June 1971 |
Pentagon Papers published |
| 1972 |
Roe v. Wade |
| February 1972 |
Nixon’s visit to China |
| May 1972 |
SALT agreement signed |
| June 1972 |
Watergate break-in occurs |
| March 1973 |
Last American troops leave Vietnam |
| 1973 |
War Powers Act |
| August 9, 1974 |
Nixon’s resignation |
| April 1975 |
South Vietnam falls to the North |
| 1976 |
Election of Jimmy Carter |
| 1978 |
Bakke v. Board of Regents of the University of California |
| 1978 |
Camp David Accords |
| November 4, 1979 |
Hostages seized in Iran |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Account for the rise and decline of New Left protests.
- Describe the counterculture and its impact.
- Trace the reform movements for women, Hispanics, Indians, and gays.
- Explain Nixon’s aims in Vietnam.
- Assess the impact of the Vietnam War on American society, military morale,
and later foreign policy.
- Outline Nixon’s goals in domestic policy and account for his limited
accomplishments.
- Understand the problems plaguing the U.S. economy in the 1970s, and
describe the various cures Nixon tried.
- Describe Nixon’s foreign policy triumphs in China and the Soviet Union,
and explain their significance.
- Discuss the Watergate cover-up and account for the difficulty in unraveling
it.
- Appraise the brief presidency of Gerald Ford.
- Evaluate the Carter administration’s successes and failures.
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