1 2 3 4 5 6 Shaken to the Roots 1965 1980 Deeper into Vietnam What were the consequences of the growing U.S. war in Vietnam? New Voices What conflicting social values and goals divided Americans in the 1960s? Cities Under Stress What challenges did cities face in the late 1960s and 1970s? Shaken to the Roots 1965 1980 The Year of the Gun, 1968 How did the Tet Offensive change American public opinion about the war in Vietnam? Nixon, Watergate, and the Crisis of the Early 1970s What was the legacy of Richard Nixon s presidency? Jimmy Carter: Idealism and Frustration in the White House What factors limited Jimmy Carter s effectiveness as president? From a Great Society to a Conservative One: 1969 1980 Watergate The Women s Movement Jimmy Carter Deeper into Vietnam Escalation Fighting in Nam From Dissent to Confrontation Escalation ROLLING THUNDER Strategy: search and destroy 1
Strategy: search and destroy Viet Cong War of liberation 7 8 9 Fighting in Nam Troops in Vietnam peaked at 500,000 Long tours of duty Exacerbated racial tensions From Dissent to Confrontation Antiwar demonstrations Martin Luther King, Jr. Selective Service System Young draftees Draft resistance 10 11 12 13 14 15 Explore the Vietnam War on MyHistoryLab New Voices New Left and Community Activism Youth Culture and Counterculture Communes Grassroots Conservatism The Feminist Critique Coming Out New Left and Community Activism Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Free Speech Movement (FSM) Mario Savio Model Cities Program Models for grassroots activism Youth Culture and Counterculture 2
The counterculture Form of consumerism Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley 16 17 18 19 20 21 Communes Wide variety of experiments Religiously based Organic farming Cooperative ownership Grassroots Conservatism Evangelical religion Campus Crusade for Christ Barry Goldwater Resistance to integration The Feminist Critique Civil Rights Act of 1964 National Organization of Women 1966 The glass ceiling Sexual revolution Coming Out Part of broader civil rights movement Stonewall Inn, Manhattan 1969 Stonewall Rebellion Gay pride parades Cities Under Stress Diagnosing an Urban Crisis Conflict in the Streets Minority Self-Determination Suburban Independence: The Outer City Diagnosing an Urban Crisis Concentration of the poor African Americans 3
African Americans Limited access to housing, schools Infrastructure 22 23 Conflict in the Streets Riots in New York 1964 The Watts riot 1965 National Guard Riots continued in 1966 Minority Self-Determination Black Power Nation of Islam Malcolm X Black Panthers United Farm Workers Cesar Chavez Boycotts Native Americans American Indian Movement (AIM) 24 25 26 27 28 Suburban Independence: The Outer City Suburban economic growth and political influence Baker v. Carr (1962) School busing controversies Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education (1971) The Tet Offensive LBJ s Exit Red Spring Violence and Politics: King, Kennedy, and Chicago 4
Violence and Politics: King, Kennedy, and Chicago 29 30 The Tet Offensive Vietnamese New Year Tet Offensive January 1968 War appeared to be unwinnable LBJ s Exit Eugene McCarthy Robert Kennedy Johnson withdrew from race 31 32 33 34 35 Red Spring Student unrest Columbia University Battle of Morningside Heights Western Europe Prague Spring Violence and Politics: King, Kennedy, and Chicago Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated April 1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated June 1968 1968 election Richard M. Nixon Getting Out of Vietnam, 1969 1975 Nixon and the Wider World Courting Middle America Oil, OPEC, and Stagflation Americans as Environmentalists From Dirty Tricks to Watergate The Ford Footnote Getting Out of Vietnam, 1969 1975 My Lai massacre 1968 5
My Lai massacre 1968 Vietnamization Nixon Doctrine Cambodia Stalemate and cease-fire North Vietnam overran the south 1975 36 37 Nixon and the Wider World Henry Kissinger National security adviser Visit to China Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) Easing of tensions Détente 38 39 40 41 Courting Middle America New Federalism General Revenue Sharing Suburbs benefited School desegregation Oil, OPEC, and Stagflation Inflation Arab-Israeli War 1973 Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) retaliated Stagflation Americans as Environmentalists Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 1962 DDT Earth Day 1970 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Love Canal 6
Love Canal 42 43 44 45 From Dirty Tricks to Watergate Watergate Nixon s fear of political enemies Pentagon Papers Daniel Ellsberg Nixon resigned 1972 The Ford Footnote Gerald Ford Became president Pardoned Nixon Helsinki Accords Détente 1976 election Jimmy Carter 46 47 48 49 Jimmy Carter: Idealism and Frustration in the White House Carter, Energy, and the Economy Closed Factories and Failed Farms Building a Cooperative World New Crises Abroad Economy Oil prices rose Interest rates rose Energy policy Alternative energies Closed Factories and Failed Farms 7
Shift to new industries The Rustbelt Deindustrialization Layoffs Agribusiness 50 51 Building a Cooperative World Mutual respect Human rights China Camp David Agreement 1979 Anwar Sadat, Egypt Menachem Begin, Israel New Crises Abroad Cold War revived Failure of SALT II Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Iranian hostage crisis Ayatollah Khomeini 52 53 Conclusion An energy crisis and environmental problems showed the limits of American prosperity. Events also demonstrated that the United States could not run the world. At the same time, deep economic changes were occurring. 8