Politics, World Events, Music, Sports, and More OVERVIEW

 President Lyndon B. Johnson  Took office in 1963 after JFK was assassinated  In the election of 1964 Johnson won and stayed in the White House as President  Civil Rights supporter  Voting Rights Act  Nominated Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court and Robert C. Weaver to be Secretary of his Cabinet  Civil Rights Act 1968 US POLITICS

 Lyndon B. Johnson cont.  The Great Society  Johnson’s agenda for Congress during his Presidency  Increase Federal Funding for Education  War on Poverty and Healthcare Reform (Medicare)  Space Program (Apollo Program)  Civil Rights-Voting Rights Act  Conservation (Wilderness Protection Act)  Foreign Policy  Vietnam War  Six Day War POLITICS

 Nixon  Election of 1968  Johnson withdrew  Robert Kennedy was assassinated  Nixon won against Hubert Humphrey  Foreign Policy  China  Vietnam War  Soviet Union (Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty)  Middle East US POLITICS

 Nixon  Domestic Policy  Economy  Civil Rights  Affirmative Action  Integration  Space Program  Apollo 11  First humans on the moon  Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin  1969  “One small step for man one giant leap for man kind” US POLITICS

 Nixon  1972 Presidential Election  Ran against George McGovern  Won 520 electoral votes to 17  Carried 49 states  Watergate  Nixon authorized bugging and burglary of the Demo National Committee Headquarters in Watergate complex  Men got caught  Nixon tried to cover up by destroying tapes  Impeachment  First President to ever resign US POLITICS

 Gerald Ford  Took over the Presidency after Nixon resigned  Served 1974 to 1977  Major Events of Ford’s Presidency  Pardon of Nixon  Vietnam  Middle East Society Union (limitations on nuclear weapons) US POLITICS

 Carter  Election of 1976  Defeated President Ford  Major Events During Presidency  US Energy Crisis  Shortage of oil due to Middle East issues  Said it was the moral equivalent of war  Encouraged people to conserve  Love Canal  US boycott of Moscow Olympic  Since the modern Olympics began in the late 1800s this was the first time the US did not participate US POLITICS

 Oil Crisis   Only license plates with odd numbers could go on odd-numbered days and same with even numbers  Space exploration  Near loss of Apollo 13 astronauts in 1970 led to Anti-NASA feelings  Plans for missions up to Apollo 20 were canceled.  Spent most of 70s working on the space shuttle US ISSUES

 Cold War  Conflicts between capitalist and communist forces  Vietnam War  Stop Communist spread in Vietnam  26 th Amendment (voting age 18)  Iran Hostage Crisis  Iranian Revolution 1979  Distrust between the revolutionaries and Western powers  Six Day War  Munich Massacre  1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany  Palestinian Arab terrorists kidnaped and murdered eleven Israeli athletes WORLD ISSUES

 Women’s Movement  Feminism grew  First woman President in Argentina-Isabel Peron  Roe v. Wade (abortion legalized)  More opportunity for women in the workplace  Anti-War Protests  In opposition to the Vietnam war  Kent State shootings  Environmentalism  First Earth Day was on April 22, 1970  TV  Brady Bunch  Happy Days  Partridge Family CULTURE

 Counterculture  Values and norms different from mainstream society  Started with youth against segregation  Anti-War sentiments  Expressed in music, fashion and beliefs  Hippie movement (harmony with nature, communal living, experimentation, recreational drugs, artistic expression)  Sexual liberation  Drugs  Gender equality  Gay-rights CULTURE

 Popular Artists  Beatles  Bob Marley  David Bowie  Stevie Wonder  Rolling Stones  Bruce Springsteen  Woodstock 1969  400,000 people  Bethel, New York  2 people died  Anti-War songs  Ohio by Neil Young  War by Edwin Starr  Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival MUSIC

 First Super Bowl 1967 (Green Bay v. KC Chiefs)  1970 Plane Crash killing the entire Marshall (West Virginia) football team.  First College Basketball Team to start all African American players Texas Western College under coach Don Haskins  1980 Olympics USA v. Soviets in Ice Hockey SPORTS