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1 Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 13/e Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority

2 The Youth Culture The Youth Culture  “Liberation” –The New Left  Sources of the New Left  SDS  Free Speech Movement  People’s Park 2 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

3 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority The Youth Culture The Youth Culture –The Counterculture  “Hippies”  Haight-Ashbury  Growing Influence of Rock ‘n’ Roll 3 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

4 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority The Mobilization of Minorities The Mobilization of Minorities –Seeds of Indian Militancy  Native American Grievances  Failure of “Termination” –The Indian Civil Rights Movement  AIM  Occupation of Wounded Knee  Important Legal Victories 4 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

5 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority 5 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Aboriginal Territories and Modern Reservations of Western Indian Tribes

6 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority The Mobilization of Minorities The Mobilization of Minorities –Latino Activism  Surging Latino Immigration  “Chicano” Activism  Cesar Chavez –Challenging the “Melting Pot” Ideal  Cultural Pluralism 6 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

7 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority The Mobilization of Minorities The Mobilization of Minorities –Gay Liberation  “Stonewall Riot”  Impact of the Gay Liberation Movement 7 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

8 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority The New Feminism The New Feminism –The Rebirth  The Feminine Mystique  NOW Founded Betty Friedan (Library of Congress) 8 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

9 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority “There is no civil rights movement to speak for women as there has been for Negroes and other victims of discrimination.” National Organization for Women 9 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

10 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority The New Feminism The New Feminism –Women’s Liberation  New Directions in the Women’s Movement 10 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Women in the Paid Work Force 1940-2000

11 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority The New Feminism The New Feminism –Expanding Achievements  Political and Economic Success  Failure of ERA ERA YES Button (The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Ken Cavanagh Photographer) 11 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

12 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority The New Feminism The New Feminism –The Abortion Controversy  Roe v. Wade Contraceptives (The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc./Jill Braaten, photographer) 12 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

13 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society –The New Science of Ecology  Idea of an Interrelated World  Ecology’s Postwar Growth –Environmental Advocacy  New Professional Environmental Activists 13 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

14 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society –Environmental Degradation  Water and Air Pollution –Earth Day and Beyond  The First “Earth Day”  EPA Established Air Pollution (Royalty-Free / CORBIS) 14 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

15 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority Nixon, Kissinger, and the War Nixon, Kissinger, and the War –Vietnamization  Henry Kissinger  Consequences of “Vietnamization” –Escalation  Kent State  My Lai Massacre  Easter Offensive 15 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

16 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority Nixon, Kissinger, and the War Nixon, Kissinger, and the War –“Peace with Honor”  “Christmas Bombing” –Defeat in Indochina  Fall of Saigon 16 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

17 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority Nixon, Kissinger, and the World Nixon, Kissinger, and the World  Toward a “Multipolar” World –China and the Soviet Union  Nixon’s China Visit  SALT I –The Problems of Multipolarity  Nixon Doctrine  “Six-Day War”  Arab Oil Embargo 17 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

18 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority Politics and Economics Under Nixon Politics and Economics Under Nixon –Domestic Initiatives  Dismantling the Great Society –From the Warren Court to the Nixon Court  Baker v. Carr  Bakke v. Board of Regents of California Richard M. Nixon (Library of Congress) 18 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

19 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority Politics and Economics Under Nixon Politics and Economics Under Nixon –The Election of 1972  George McGovern  Nixon’s Landslide –The Troubled Economy  Inflation  OPEC  Deindustrialization –The Nixon Response  “Stagflation” 19 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

20 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority The Watergate Crisis The Watergate Crisis –The Scandals  The Changing Presidency  The Watergate Break-In  “Cover-Up”  “Saturday Night Massacre” 20 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. “What did the president know and when did he know it?” Senator Howard Baker

21 Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority The Watergate Crisis The Watergate Crisis –The Fall of Richard Nixon  U.S. v. Richard M. Nixon  Nixon Resigns “Our long national nightmare is over.” Gerald Ford 21 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

22 Patterns of Popular Culture: Rock Music in the Sixties Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority 22 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

23 Where Historians Disagree: Watergate Chapter Thirty: The Crisis of Authority 23 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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