1. A Time of Upheaval, 1968-1974

2.  The New Left  The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)  The Port Huron Statement  “Hell no, we won’t go”!

3.  The Counterculture  Hippies  Music of the 1960s  The Sexual Revolution  The Pill  Roe V Wade (1972)  The Gay Liberation

4.  The Tet Offensive (Jan. 1968)  The “psychological” victory  The Doves  Eugene McCarthy  Robert Kennedy

5.  The assassination of Martin Luther King JR  April 4, 1968

6.  Vice President Hubert Humphrey  The assassination of Robert Kennedy  The 1968 Election  Richard Nixon  Henry Kissinger  Realpolitik

7.  Vietnamization  The Nixon Doctrine  My Lai  William Calley JR  Nixon escalates the war

8.  Kent State (May 1970)  The Pentagon Papers (1971)  The Credibility Gap

9.  Détente with China  Reasons for Détente  Ping Pong Diplomacy  Nixon goes to China (1972)  Leonid Brezhnev  SALT I (May 1972)

10.  The Paris Peace Accords (Jan. 1973)  The War Powers Act (1973)  The Vietnam Syndrome

11.  Nixon and the Environment  The Environmental Protection Agency  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)  Earth Day (April 1970)  Environmental Laws

12.  Affirmative Action  Title IX (9)  Nixon’s Southern Strategy Allan Bakke

13.  The Yom Kippur War  OPEC  Gas Prices  Kissinger’s Shuttle Diplomacy  Inflation problems

14.  The Plumbers  CREEP  The 1972 Election  George McGovern  Woodward and Bernstein

15.  Nixon’s Taping System  Elliot Richardson  Archibald Cox  The Saturday Night Massacre  Impeachment proceedings

16.  Furthering the credibility gap  Spiro Agnew  Gerald Ford  The role of the Supreme Court in the Watergate Scandal

17.  Nixon resigns (Aug. 9, 1974)  Ford becomes President