AP US History Dr. Benjamins Memorial High School American History, 15 th Edition by Alan Brinkley Chapter Outlines and Reading Guide (Outlines developed by Lora Clay, Spring Woods High School) Chapter 30 The Crisis of Authority 1. The Youth Culture a. The New Left i. College ii. New Left iii. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) Port Huron Statement iv. Free Speech Movement v. Weathermen vi. Draft b. The Counterculture i. Characteristics of counterculture ii. Hippies iii. Beatlemania iv. Rock n Roll v. Woodstock 2. The Mobilization of Minorities a. Seeds of Indian Militancy i. Stats on Indians ii. Termination
b. The Indian Civil Rights Movement i. Declaration of Indian Purpose ii. American Indian Movement (AIM) iii. Indian Civil Rights Act 1968 iv. Militant protests v. United States v Wheeler c. Latino Activism i. Operation Wetback 1953 ii. Growth of Mexican American Population iii. Chicanos iv. Cesar Chavez United Farm Workers (UFW) UFW Aztec Eagle v. Bilingualism d. Gay Liberation i. Stonewall Riot ii. Advancements iii. Don t Ask, Don t Tell 1993 & 2013 iv. United States v. Windsor 3. The New Feminism a. The Rebirth i. Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique 1963 ii. Presidents Commission on the Status of Women
iii. Equal Pay Act iv. Title VII added to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 v. National Organization for Women (NOW) b. Women s Liberation c. Expanding Achievements i. Affirmative Action O Connor ii. Ms. iii. Women in Government 1. Nancy Pelosi 2. Sandra Day O Connor 3. Sonia Sotomayor 4. Geraldine Ferraro Sotomayor 5. Hilary Clinton iv. Equal Rights Amendment d. The Abortion Controversy i. Roe v Wade 4. Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society Clinton a. The New Science of Ecology e col o gy ēˈkäləjē/ noun 1. the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings. 2. the political movement that seeks to protect the environment, especially from pollution i. Rachel Carson Silent Spring 1962 b. Environmental Advocacy c. Environmental Degradation i. Water pollution
ii. Air pollution smog d. Earth Day and Beyond i. Earth Day April 22, 1970 ii. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 5. Nixon, Kissinger and the War a. Vietnamization i. Henry Kissinger ii. Limiting domestic opposition to the war Kissinger iii. Vietnamization b. Escalation i. Cambodia ii. Kent State, May 4, 1970 Kent State iii. Pentagon Papers 1971 iv. My Lai Massacre v. Easter Offensive c. Peace with Honor i. Kissinger Tho ii. Christmas Bombings iii. Paris Peace Accord 1973 My Lai Massacre d. Defeat in Indochina i. Fall of Saigon ii. Cambodia s Fall to Communism
iii. War Costs (money & Casualties) 6. Nixon, Kissinger, and the World It will be a safer world and a better world, if we have a strong, healthy United States, Europe, Soviet Union, China, Japan each balancing the other, not playing one against the other, an even balance. Nixon 1971 a. China and the Soviet Union i. Taiwan, China & Counterbalance ii. Nixon visits China iii. Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I) Mao Zedong & Nixon b. The Problems of Multipolarity i. Nixon Doctrine ii. Six Day War iii. Yom Kippur War iv. Arab Oil Embargo 7. Politics and Economics under Nixon a. Domestic Initiatives i. Dismantling the Great Society ii. Family Assistance Plan (FAP) b. From the Warren Court to the Nixon Court i. Engel v Vitale 1962 ii. Gideon v Wainwright 1963 iii. Miranda v Arizona 1966 iv. Baker v Carr 1962 v. Nixon s Judicial Appointments
vi. Swann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education 1971 vii. Bakke v Board of Regents of California 1978 c. The Election of 1972 i. Nixon ii. Wallace iii. McGovern iv. Landslide d. The Troubled Economy i. Causes of inflation e. Inequality ii. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) iii. Deindustrialization f. The Nixon Response i. stagflation 8. The Watergate Crisis a. The Scandals i. Watergate Break In ii. Cover Up iii. Tapes Executive Privilege iv. Saturday Night Massacre b. The Fall of Richard Nixon i. Spiro Agnew ii. Twenty-Fifth Amendment iii. Gerald Ford iv. United States v Richard M Nixon v. Articles of impeachment vi. smoking gun
vii. August 8, 1974