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1 Journal Entry Do you think that women or minorities (other than AA) are discriminated against or do they have equal opportunities? –Why or why not?

2 Koosh Review Tet Offensive Living Room War Agent Orange Ho Chi Minh Robert Kennedy

3 Tricky Dick as President “We have to get rid of the nightmares we inherited” – What does that mean? Nixon works with ______ –Named policy Vietnamization –1969-1971 withdrawal of 175,000 –While doing this he bombed ______

4 More Problems… Nixon counted on support from _______ My Lai Incident – –“Kill anything that breathed” –Troops killed ____ innocent women and children Nixon announced invasion of Cambodia –What happened at Kent State / Jackson State –As if it couldn’t get any worse - _____ published What was included in them?

5 This is the war that never ends – it goes on and on my friends… March ’72 – The Communist “have never been bombed like that are going to be bombed this time” Nixon Kissinger secretly meeting says peace is ___ –But… We bomb largest cities 100,000 times –After that we finally sign a peace treaty – yea!! Terms of the Treaty –We would respond if they violated with full force –2 Years later N Vietnam invades and we do??

6 Right: Fearing for their lives, South Vietnamese tried to leave on the last American helicopter leaving the US embassy. Left: North Vietnamese rolled into the Saigon and the Presidential Palace in 1975. South Vietnam surrendered creating a communist country.

7 VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL

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10 Koosh Review My Lai Kent State Vietnamization Creditability Gap Hawks

11 What was the counterculture, and what impact did it have on American society?

12 An Era of Social Change The Beginning of the End

13 Latinos / Natives in America 1960’s Pop grew from 3 – 9 million Cesar Chavez – created National Farm Workers Association –“Brown Power” tried to be like ____ –Gained _____ power, 68 Bilingual ______ NA’s – wanted more autonomy – why? –American Indian Movement – different? –“Trail of Broken Treaties” – march, Wounded Knee again? –Indian Education Act 72 – did what?

14 Women’s Rights?!? Betty Friedan – wanted equality –Wrote Feminine Mystique created _______ –Wanted equality in jobs, pay, politics (ex?) –Glass Ceilings After 64 CR Bill – National Organization for Women (NOW) –Encouraged women to do what? –Success in sports, education, & _______

15 Not Everyone Agrees… Many Americans formed ______ meaning? –Believed in peace, love, and harmony –Had own language, music, pastimes, colors… Creation of ________ The Biggest of Bands was _______ Art and Music festivals like ________ –Didn’t last too long why?

16 What about the Sane People Equal Rights Act – would have given equality in all things… –Phyllis Schlafly – thought women should____ New Right – America loosing ______ –No motivation –Only looking for _____ gratification –“Make America Beautiful give a hippie a haircut”

17 Now work on your Groovy Reading Guides!!


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